Truly Dreadful Film

Not even bad in a good way

Let's be realistic.

An Exercise In Nonsense

When Jack Black is onscreen in Saving Silverman it's nonstop hilarity and when Amanda Peet is onscreen it's nonstop cleavage. Amanda or Jack or both are in all the best parts. I love Saving Silverman mostly for Amanda and for Jack. Jason Biggs and Steve Zahn are both really good and funny and Amanda Detmer is so cute. I love Amanda and Amanda. Coach is funny. Saving Silverman is classic. I saw Saving Silverman in the theaters with high school friends back in 2001, in high school, and it was a fun and memorable experience. Saving Silverman is awesome, really sexy too cuz of the 2 Amandas, and super funny. This is a top 100 comedy for sure and more like top 50. There are so many funny moments I'd love to reference but whoever wrote this is really funny and from a funny perspective there is nothing to dislike about Saving Silverman. It's a great COMEDYYAAYAAH!!! Neil Diamond rocks!

I started watching this "movie" on the TV, hoping for some light relief. What I found instead was: Jack Black, Steve Zahn, the guy from American Pie (whose name I can't remember and don't care to check) and Amanda Peet. They played characters with different names, but given the extremely limited range of these "actors", names are irrelevant. Guess what? Black was an immature musician-slacker; Zahn was a dim-witted pushover; American Pie-guy was a passive weirdo and Peet wore a lot of plunging necklines. The plot, if there was one, was so irrelevant that I started wondering why women get breasts enlargement. If they wore what Peet wear in this, they would get full male attention, regardless of their breasts size.I digress… back to the plot… whatever it was, it was so well disguised by a truckload of gross jokes that I lost track of it. I guess the plot was an excuse for Black to be Black and for Peet to strut around. If you find that entertaining, then you might enjoy this….

Wayne LeFessier (Steve Zahn), J.D. McNugent (Jack Black), and Darren Silverman (Jason Biggs) are childhood best friends Neil Diamond fanatics. Wayne was the third string high school quarterback. J.D. was the idiot mascot. Darren was a hopelessly romantic male cheerleader pining for fellow cheerleader Sandy (Amanda Detmer). Psychologist Judith (Amanda Peet) is bitchy and has Darren wrapped around her finger. She forbids him from hanging with his two loser friends. In desperation, they kidnap her to stop their wedding. Sandy comes back into their lives. She lost her love Luigi in a trapeze accident and is going into the nunnery.It's surprising that these three comedy stars couldn't do better. Amanda Peet is not the best at playing the bitch. That's one of its big problems. She doesn't really give the audience permission to root for the two idiots. The Steve Zahn, Jack Black duo have some good bumbling fun. Eventually Peet does get angry enough to be funny. Director Dennis Dugan had made a couple of Adam Sandler movies before this and this has very similar sensibilities. Sadly he has continued to follow Adam Sandler as they both slide into the comedy wilderness.

I just streamed this and it seemed a little slow and stupid with the Neil Diamond tribute band in the beginning but then it gets really funny after the kidnapping. I'm not a particularly big fan of Jason Biggs but I stuck with it because generally everything Jack Black is in is gold but here I would say Amanda Peet puts on the command performance. I previously have not been familiar with her but here she is just ravishing and dominating at the same time. Let's just say she can really handle herself! The funniest dialog is the impromptu psychoanalyzing but I can't say too much about that without giving away plot points.