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It seems as though this film may have been more about Neil Diamond than anything else. However Saving Silverman is about three guys who grew up together, two are losers and the other is a little more normal. The two losers are Wayne (Steve Zahn, You've Got Mail, Forces of Nature) and J.D. (Jack Black, High Fidelity), while Darren Silverman (Jason Biggs, American Pie) is the cream of this crop. Basically the three are big Neil Diamond fans and have their own cover band in Seattle. Then one day Darren meets Judith (Amanda Peet, Whipped), a beautiful psychiatrist who takes on Darren as a project boyfriend that she can control and manipulate. But Wayne and J.D. don't like this since they are losing Darren. So they come up with this plan to kidnap Judith and re-introduce Darren to Sandy (Amanda Detmer, Boys & Girls), a girl he had a crush on in high school. We'll the plan kind of works, of course it is hilarious watching the two wimpy idiots try and kidnap a fit and smart Judith. Then you have the problem of what to do with Judith, and the only advice they get is from their ex-football coach (R. Lee Ermey, Toy Story 2) which is to kill her. Of course they can't kill her (they are too incompetent) plus she is always trying to escape, which both are funny. Plus Darren can't forget Judith, and Sandy is about to become a nun. Then throw in Neil Diamond playing himself at the end on a mission of love, and you can see how ridiculous the whole movie is. But the odd thing is, it all works. Saving Silverman is bust-a-gut kinda of funny, and a lot of the credit has to go to the Coach character. Dennis Dugan directs this Hank Nelkin/Greg DePaul story. Despite a rather unbelievable story, Saving Silverman is a good movie. It may not be a great film by normal standards, but it is a comedy. And if a comedy makes you laugh, then it is successful in its endeavor. As to the rating, I give Saving Silverman eight couches on the About-Movies.com scale. It would have been a perfect ten if Amanda Peet had shown some nudity (one couch for each breast), which I find odd that she didn't get naked since that seems to be a reoccurring theme in her other films. Later. Last updated: Saturday, October 28, 2006 05:37:39 PM |
