That was an excellent one.

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

I watched this show pretty faithfully for about six of the nine or ten seasons it was on the air. I suppose exhaustion of the show's tried and true chestnuts(i.e. Drew's constant war with office Troll-lover and cosmetics hound Mimi,the fact that he hates his job,that he's walked on perpetually,that he never can quite get any of his side projects to take off,his inability to keep a relationship,etc.) would be the main reason why I fell "out of love" with this show. By the seventh year mark of the show,the elements of the show,while still funny,seemed to ring stale to me. Still,when this show was rolling along through the halcyon years,it was arguably one of the most inspired and raucous comedy that ran through network television.Be-spectacled,laid-back everyman Drew Carey plays sort of a distaff version of himself:instead of having the life of a successful stand-up comic,he's back in his hometown of Cleveland working a thankless middle management job for the Winfred-Louder Mall company. He has the support(for whatever that's worth)of his friends KAte(Christa Miller,comfortable being "one of the guys"),Lewis(Ryan Stiles,brilliant!)and Oswald(the always malleable Diedrich Bader),and day-to-week survival in his job consists of,among other things,navigating his way around adversarial work peers such as his bosses(Kevin Pollack in season one,future TV talk show host Craig Ferguson for the rest of the run) and some co-workers(primarily Ian Gomez and overly made up Kathy Kinney,never dull as aforementioned Mimi).Of course,this being a sitcom,the usual conventions(i.e. simple plot construct,laugh-track,light,silly and raunchy subject matter,etc.)are employed,but the creators made efforts to ratchet it up enough to keep it interesting from season to season,show to show. Whether it was altering the opening theme title credit sequence(season 1:Drew's ukulele rendition of "Moon Over Cleveland",season 2 and 3's surreal,60s-like music-and-dance routine set to "Five o'clock world";seasons 4,5 and 6's energized rock intro of all the characters running through a rendition of Ian Hunter's "Cleveland Rocks")or various ways of playing with the plot devices(a couple of examples that come to mind:the annual "Find What's Wrong with the show" episode,or the episode where Drew's romantic rivalry over a nice girl with his erstwhile friends is being commented on by sports commentators,a la "Monday Night Football"),this show exercised to its full extent all the ways they could tinker with the format given.I may yet try can catch the eps from the latter seasons,as it seems like they were probably undersold and quietly shelved in favor of other ABC shows coming up the pike around that time(read about 2002 to 2004),just to see if maybe my original prejudices of the show's creative turns still agree with me. Still a fun show while it lasted,and because of it,suddenly Cleveland sounds good to me. Dare I say it,I think it may,indeed,rock.

I have watched the Drew Carey show for years both on network and on television in syndication. I have to admit that it still holds up. Who could forget the fights between Mimi Bobek and Drew Carey played wonderfully by Kathy Kinney who should have been nominated for Emmys rather than being short-sighted by the television academy. I loved her relationship with Drew's cross dressing brother. Over the several seasons, the show peaked from modest and humble beginnings to success and then soured by critics and fans. Christa Miller's departure was upsetting but Cynthia Watros was equally interesting. Drew Carey Show was truly blue collar. This was not Friends nor did it appear to be and we didn't want another Friends where their biggest obstacles was their relationships with each other and the opposite sex. The Drew Carey Show was real to it's audience. The casting of Craig Ferguson as Drew and Mimi's boss was genius as was Nan Martin who plays the store owner. We loved Oswald and Lewis and their shenanigans with Drew and Kate as well. The show tried to be different and it succeeded but Drew doesn't give up his show easily to say it's over. Maybe the swan song took longer than it should but I believe Drew Carey show will live forever in reruns with audiences rediscovering it's humor and the genius of it. Too bad, the Academy never noticed the Drew Carey Show for it also had great guests like Shirley Jones, Marion Ross, etc.

The above comment isn't really fair but you've gotta admit that among others, Drew Carey, Ray Romano or even Jerry Seinfeld aren't really people you should look up to. Nothing really works out for them either or if it does it is usually forgotten by next week where they are back to the "Nothing good happens to me or if it does something else happens that screws the whole thing up".The problem with this show is that Drew, the character, is too aware that things doesn't work out for him. He knows he is fat and the way to live with it is of course to make self-deprecating jokes and occasionally make a snide remark to his assistant Mimi, well played by Kathy Kinney.Of course, Drew has to have an attractive female friend, in this case the very hot Christa Miller, at least she was back then. But they could never be anymore than friends. His two male friends are also a couple of dimwits of course. I will say that Dietrich Bader (is that how you spell his name?) is somewhat of a favorite of mine ever since i heard his voice on the Simpsons playing a hillbilly sheriff. But for some reason he doesn't make a big impression here because there is too much focus on the other male friend, played by Ryan Stiles.Many people will probably write me hate mail if they read this but the live sitcom is a total waste of TV space today. And I am not just talking about American sitcoms either. Here in Denmark we have tried experimenting with sitcoms featuring well known Danish comedians, just like you do in the States. But for some reason you can't make a Danish version of an American invention. It has something to do with the Danish language, I think. We have to incorporate some English phrases to make it work and it is usually a four-letter word. Is that really great comedy? Of course not. So I will give American sitcoms some credit. Nobody can make them except Americans but they are not up to the standards of the 80's to early 90's sitcoms, where in my opinion the American sitcom had its prime.This was more of a diversion away from what I really think of "The Drew Carey Show". But what more can I say that I haven't already done on the Seinfeld, ELR or Ellen comments.

The Drew Carey Show was a fantastic show - possibly because I could identify with it. Normally, I'm not a huge fan of sitcoms (and ABC sitcoms at that!), but for some reason, this one just clicked. This wasn't like the Friends crew, who sat around in their beautiful clothes, with their impossible-to-own apartments. Instead, these were just regular, slightly-funnier-than-average guys. They were us! Now, apparently the later seasons of the show really began to stink. I wouldn't know, because I wasn't even aware that it was on the air anymore! I honestly had no idea that it was still running, after around 2000. This can be attributed to ABC's incompetency, as usual mishandling one of it's more popular shows. ABC's theme seems to be, "Hey! This show has potential! Let's not advertise it! We'll just see how it does all on it own...and, to sweeten the deal, let's change timeslots every other week!"And so, the Drew Carey Show didn't stand a chance. Luckily, it's now being aired in reruns on FOX, who are slightly less sporadic than ABC for jostling their time schedules. Watch it if you get the chance.