Fantastic!

How wonderful it is to see this fine actress carry a film and carry it so beautifully.

True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

I really don't understand all the negativity around this film. By 2000 or so I was already sick and tired of Hollywood productions turning to money grubbing garbage, and I first saw this movie at around that time.I found it very funny, smart and absolutely spot-on. The actors doing cameos are visibly having a lot of fun mocking the industry, and the film demolishes and makes fun of everything I hate about Hollywood and the star system. People who hated this film obviously didn't get it, and I guess they deserve the dozens of rancid turds Hollywood throws at our faces year after year. If you're a "transformers" or "fast and furious" fan, you probably won't like it, even hate it for having too many "insiders" jokes and references. I didn't think the humor was obscure or ellitist at all, It's just a really funny jab at Hollywood, and god knows how it deserves it. For one thing, I felt thrilled that many people shared the ideas I have about the movie business, it's one of these gratyfying moments where you go "thank god-I'm not the only one thinking this". It really saddens me to see so many people hating this film, because it confirms what I've been knowing for quite some time : most of the people are idiots and have stopped using their brains decades ago, hence the general quality of movies nowadays going downhill very fast, at an ever increasing rate. I'm just clueless as to how this film can be rated below 4 when awful, idiotic and vulgar turd-burgers such as "Ted" get 7+. The answer : humanity is doomed by it's own filthy ignorance and stupidity. Sad.

I think that a good indicator that the makers of this supposed parody of Hollywood didn't have the conviction or skill to pull it off comes pretty early in the film. In the trailer for the film-within-a-film, they have three action heroes turn into the camera with huge guns and deadpan growl, "Don't f*** with me." The first of the three, Stallone, is an obvious choice--he actually was an action star who made a living in the 80s blowing away bad guys. But Jackie Chan was never a cinema "tough guy." He made action films, but he was never the type to be tough, brandish a rocket launcher, and tell bad guys not to f with him. Even worse, whose stupid idea was it to use Whoopi Goldberg as one of the action heroes? Whoopi? WHOOPI? I mean, maybe the inclusion of Goldberg was intended to be a joke, but it didn't play like one. As I alluded to before, the inclusion of Chan and Goldberg as Stallone-like action badasses just reeks of cluelessness. I mean, they could get Stallone, but couldn't get Segal, or VanDamme? Or even a washed up Burt Reynolds? Bronson would have been great. Arnold might have done if for fun. Imagine if it had been Sly, Arnie, and Bronson! Sure, they all would have been a bit long in the tooth, but they were true film badasses! The audience would have been laughing and cheering at the same time, instead of just going "wha? Whoopi? Wha?"

OK, so we all know that Alan Smithee is the name that directors use when they want to disassociate themselves from their bad movies, and that Joe Eszterhas is one of the people most associated with such movies. But in this case, a real director named Alan Smithee (Eric Idle) makes a movie so downright God-awful - it stars Whoopi Goldberg, Jackie Chan, and Sylvester Stallone as kick-ass mother****ers - that he destroys it. The rest of the movie portrays interviews with insiders putting in their two cents about the whole ordeal.This is certainly a devastating look at Hollywood, and they pull no punches here. I think that when "An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn" came out, some critics said that it was as bad as the movie portrayed. But I thought that they did a good job. A particularly funny scene...well, I'll just tell you that it's associated with Keith Moon.So why is it that Hollywood likes to make fun of itself so much?

.... Indeed they can sir , same as anyone can put a crap movie on the screen too , but to be able to a film as gut wrenchingly bad as BURN HOLLYWOOD BURN onto the screen must have been the work of an insane genius . Think about the premise for a moment - It`s a mockumentary featuring director Alan Smithee , it`s a mockumentary , a mock documentary , so why bother to cast well known faces like Eric Idle and Ryan O Neal etc in roles ? The reason SPINAL TAP worked so well is because the audience believed they were watching a real documentary about a real heavy metal band from Britain , no one is going to be fooled by this movie which seems pointless