Plump Fiction (1997) User Reviews

Well, what can I say?

[Thursday · 2/10 · 11 March 2001]

It's painfully obvious that the people who made this "movie" have never seen such brilliant spoofs as "The Naked Gun" and "Hot Shots". This movie is terrible, and so are the actors. They wouldn't know acting even if it hit them in the face, as I felt like doing while watching this total pile of rubbish.

The movie is stupid and has no humor in it what so ever. I'm SURE that I could make a better movie with my friends. To me it's amazing that a movie can fail this much. Not a single clever or funny line. No trace of intelligence behind it. It's a pathetic movie and I'd like to meet the person who actually likes this movie. Yuck!

The best thing...

[Spinal83 · 4/10 · 4 November 2003]

...about this film was the title song. After 30 minutes, I discontinued watching because it was so lame. Bad story, bad actors, bad movie. If you want to watch a good movie, watch Pulp Fiction instead.

I found myself looking elsewhere ....

[Global · 3/10 · 7 May 1999]

...when this movie was on.

What a bore. An attempt at humor, but really not pulling it off too well. Some good ideas were cast, and the actors makeup and wardrobe were OK.

I expected a lot more, unfortunately I couldn't sit through any more of it, I switched off halfway through the video, and ejected the tape, went to the rental store to get my money back...

Why did I waste my time...

[Demke · 10 September 1999]

I took a chance on this movie because of Tommy Davidson... This movie was awful. It wasn't even good enough to be called "poor". I enjoy "spoof" films, but this wasn't even funny. I believe I laughed twice. Once because my friend hit his head on the ceiling fan, and the second time was because I either had to laugh or cry at the $3.00 I wasted renting this movie. For the love of God and all that is holy... do not rent this movie.

Worst movie ever

[MickeyQ · 1/10 · 5 November 2002]

I consider myself to have a decent sense of humor, but this "movie" left me stunned in my chair.

It's so bad that it could just not have been any worse. Not once did I laugh at the sadly attempted jokes in this movie. I have watched and enjoyed several parodies of big movies, but unfortunately this one will allways be the one I remember best - in my nightmares.

The only reason anyone should want to watch this, is if they want to enter a coma for a brief period of time.

This is the worst movie ever.

This movie never should have been made!!

[Bradley-9 · 1/10 · 31 May 1999]

Without a doubt, the WORST movie I have ever seen in my life. There was nothing entertaining about this film. I know it was supposed to be a comedy, but it actually made me cry at the thought of losing the $4.75 admission price.

Ed Wood presents Tarnatino's greatest hits (sort of)

[somehope · 5/10 · 16 August 2006]

Compared to some of the Tarnatino rip-offs that advertise themselves as original, give PF credit for being the stupidest, and its pride in being one of the worst, weirdest low-budget films ever made. Granted, its stupid basically because of its inconsistency (why "Nell" and a Gump clone came into the story I'll never know and the "Reservior Nuns" section fades out after the "Monkees" theme really confuses me), but from what I understand of Ed Wood's bad movies they didn't make sense either. Still, PF has some amusing things going for it: 1.) the independent film café (with a good Walken impersonator and Priscillia, Queen of the Desserts who gives the sum of the movie's literal running gag: "It's been a crazy mixed-up day (reference to Pulp's time frames); 2.) wild acting by Julie Brown and some of then Comedy Central's show "Strip Mall"'s actors, Sandra Bernhard, Tommy Davidson, and "Strangers With Candy's Paul Dinello and many others (including the real Homer Simpson -- Dan Canstella); 3.) a weird mix of "Clerks" and Reality Bites" together; and 4.) an overall loving homage to everything QT at that time(including "Natural Born Killers" and "True Romance") ... except it's weird and inconsistent. Give it a shot for something ... original?

In comparison, Film Threat's "My Big Fat Independent Film" is a better Indies spoof, but for a weird homage to QT go with the Plump ... it's cult like a Ed Wood original.

"Those looking for a plot will be shot." -- Mark Twain, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Not that Bad!

[Sylviastel · 5/10 · 13 November 2006]

I gave it a try a second time. Years had passed since I first bought the tape, look, it's a spoof of Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Forrest Gump, and other films. It's not supposed to be serious, it's supposed to stupid. I thought the nuns were funny trying to rob a bank. Sandra Bernhard plays the Amanda Plummer role from Pulp Fiction. Dan Castellanata plays the Forrest Gump character in this film. I love Julie Brown and I don't understand why she does not have a hit sitcom or is working as much as she is. Everybody remembers her from Just Say Julie show on MTV don't they, she's the funniest woman in Hollywood as we speak. Her role as Mimi Hungry is unforgettable. First, the movie is not meant to be taken seriously. It just wants to spoof Tarantino films and Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers. Okay, it's not masterpiece theater but you can watch it.

Plump Fiction: 5/10

[movieguy1021 · 5/10 · 7 July 2004]

Ever since Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker broke up, we've been hard pressed to find good parody movies. The Scary Movies gave us a laugh or two, but nothing like Airplane! or The Naked Gun. Plump Fiction is a hit-or-miss parody of Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Natural Born Killers, and other violent, (usually) Tarantino movies. Some of it works, some doesn't, but after a while, you just want to quit.

Jimmy (Paul Dinello) and Julius (Tommy Davidson) are two exterminators who are sent by their boss Montello (Robert Costanzo) to eliminate rodents from Nicky (Matthew Glave) and Vallory (Pamela Segall) Cox's apartment. Jimmy also has to take Montello's plump wife Mimi (Julie Brown) out to lunch. Throw in some references to the overbudgeting of Waterworld, some Priscilla: Queen of the Desert and Forrest Gump, and that's Plump Fiction.

The movie starts off well. It's almost scene for scene with Pulp, and with some very funny bits poking fun at Pulp, such as Jimmy's fascination with telling people what they call things in different countries. Basically, most of the parodies are pretty funny, until about halfway through the movie. Then it gets boring, unfunny, and repetitive. The whole Reservoir Nuns gag was one of the worst things I've ever seen. It's just a bunch of people in nun outfits cursing. For ten minutes. Plump Fiction does have its moments, and Tommy Davidson is awesome, but ultimately, it fails in becoming a lasting parody. It's almost like an SNL skit turned movie. None of those work out.

My rating: 5/10

Rated R for strong language and violence.

The problem is that we've heard the joke before... and it was never funny

[TBJCSKCNRRQTreviews · 1/10 · 18 January 2005]

I've never understood this type of spoof movies. You get some serious/semi-serious movie that everyone knows about and takes the seriousness out of it through immature fart-jokes and such. We've seen it many, many times, and it's never really been funny. It's just an easy way to laugh at something you don't understand, in my opinion. This seems to be one of the more obscure and less liked of the genre, though I honestly don't see anything in this that is much worse than that of Spy Hard or Hot Shots. This movie, as is clearly understood simply from the title, concentrates on making childish fun of Pulp Fiction. That's the main reason I decided to watch it, as I found that film to be overly indulgent of Tarantino's sick mind and powerfully overrated. I had hoped for one or two good jokes, making fun of the overly violent and pointless type of movie that Pulp Fiction was in every aspect, in my (anything but) humble opinion. I was sorely disappointed. The plot is pretty much a rip-off of Tarantino's film, with a few scenes spoofing other, often better, films, in the same childish and humorless fashion. The pacing is poor, and often you'll sit there, being able to guess the outcome of every scene, predicting every joke, often thinking of a better one at the spot, bored out of your mind. The acting is bad. The characters are clichés and stereotypes, and are intentionally paper-thin in order to make fun of the characters they're based on... problem is, it doesn't work. It just makes the movie that much harder to sit through. The humor is juvenile and lame. The only positive thing I can say about this film is that they managed to find some actors that looked like the people they were supposed to look like. The film is an awful waste of the actual real actors involved. Possibly slightly entertaining to fans of the typical spoof movies of the same kind. I recommend this only to people who truly loathed Pulp Fiction, or fans of the Zucker parody films. Everyone else: avoid. 1/10

Worst Movie EVER!!!

[Rattrap007 · 1/10 · 2 July 2001]

Now first let me say I love god awful movies. Especially horror films mainly. I watched hundreds of movies on Mystery Science Theater 3000 with no pain. But this is the absolute worst film on the planet!!! I had to turn it off it was so bad. It was unfunny and just plain unwatchable. Give me 3 back to back viewings of Manos The Hands of fate or Monster A-go-go over this any day. Avoid this film like the plauge!! Now excuse me while I go gouge out my eyes to cleanse them of the filth I had to watch to get a decent judgement for this film. Only one decent gag in the part I watched was the hitmen now are an extermination pair for Hitmen Exterminators. Even that wasn't to great of a gag.

Either you GET IT, or you don't

[dk2 · 10/10 · 23 March 2000]

When I saw this flick, my expectations were pretty low... good parody is mighty hard to find, and darn near impossible if Leslie Nielsen isn't in the cast. Yet this was good, clever, and entertaining... it actually had me laughing out loud - no easy task! Writer / director Bob Koherr didn't just spoof 'Pulp Fiction' - he had fun with the entire genre of Tarantino-esque bloodbath Violence-A-Thon cinema, and wove aspects of 'Reservoir Dogs', 'Natural Born Killers', and others into his script... even with a rump bump to 'Clerks'. The casting was excellent - everyone played their roles like they were really enjoying the process. Tommy Davidson's 'Julius' was both slapstick Sammy Davis and dead-on Sam L Jackson, 'Jimmy Nova' was too Travolta, and somebody almost out-Christopher Walkened 'CW' himself.

If you didn't like Pulp Fiction, you just won't get it. If you did, try it out.

Good

[manitobaman81 · 7/10 · 19 August 2014]

Don't believe the hype! This movie is stupid and has no humor. There's not a single clever or funny line in this thing. Sorry, but almost every joke in this film is absolutely pointless. That said, some great costumes and dialog move it all along. All of the fancy characters struggle against a system that has perpetuated falsehoods, and there seems to be gentle fisticuffs back and forth with those who claim to work for justice. From an artistic standpoint, there were some plot elements and character developments I didn't think were totally needed. They do however drive the story, which seemed to be their purpose, so I can accept them.

This is a generous review.

[TOMNEL · 5/10 · 14 August 2005]

cast:Paul Dinello, Tommy Davidson, Julie Brown, Jennifer Rubin, Pamela Segall, Matthew Glave, Dan Castellaneta, Sandra Bernhard, Tim Kazurinsky, Robert Costanzo, Kevin Meaney, Colleen Camp, Jennifer Coolidge and Kane Picoy.

my review and plot summary:I love Pulp Fiction, therefore I was thrilled to see this movie. Like Pulp Fiction, we start out in a restaurant with a couple of folks talking, except instead of Tim Roth doing a monolouge, we have Sandra Bernhard, who was just so over the top with her cameo, it was scary. Other than her extremely poorly acted role, the other performers did a good job. Tommy Davidson did an excellent parody of Samuel L. Jackson and Robert Costanzo's small role as Montello(ala Marcellus) the exterminator boss was very funny. The script was pretty bad, but hey, it's a spoof. This movie follows three plot lines. The first is Jimmy Nova(Dinello) and Julius(Davidson) doing their job, then Jimmy taking out his boss's wife Mimi(Brown). The second is the Natural Blonde Killers, who are two tag team wrestlers who want to kill Gulliver Stone for making a movie about them, and they also win a match that bossman Montello payed them to lose. Pamella Segall plays Vallory and does a dead on Julliette Lewis. The third story is Reservoir Nuns, about strippers posing as nuns trying to get revenge that they deserve. One last notable performance is Kane Picoy doing another dead on role as Chris Walken Kringle. Also the choice of music in this movie is really good.

my review-2/4 stars. 76 minutes. rated R for violence, language and some relatively mild sexual innuendo.

Plus, there's Sandra

[MarquisDD · 1 May 2000]

All films should begin with an opening monologue by Sandra Bernhard. It's so hard to fail after the inimitable Sandra sets the mood. Parody such as Plump Fiction can either soar or fail miserably. I was pleasantly surprised to see PF in the former category. A clever script, an excellent cast, and a ubiquitous tongue in cheek kept this little underground gem glittering. Particularly memorable components were: well, the inclusion of Julie Brown, which is always a good thing; a brilliant and unexpected cameo by Jodie Foster's "Nell"; and the show-stealer was a brilliant send-up of Juliette Lewis's white trash Natural Born Killers heroine.

And then there's Sandra, of course.

Worst ever!

[Norpan-3 · 1/10 · 8 January 2001]

This is by far the worst movie i have ever seen. Its been a few years since I saw it and nothing has come close since then and i doubt that there ever will be a movie produced that is as bad as this. It tries to make fun of a variety of different movies, for example 'Nell' (!) and instead of funny its just pathetic. Whatever you do, don't rent or by this garbage and if someone throws it at you....turn around and run the other way!!

Worst movie ever

[ace45 · 1/10 · 3 October 2001]

The worst movie ever made. If anyone asks you what is the worst movie you've ever seen - tell them Plump Fiction. Of all the movies I've ever seen this gotta be the most lame experience. Even the poorest sequels are pure masterpieces compared

A few things have ever rendered me catatonic..

[spewf · 1/10 · 28 December 1998]

..this movie being one of them.

I remember, in the middle of the movie, me and my friend just

looked at each other, shaked our heads and laughed.. in despair.

See it if you wish, if you feel that you have the time to waste

and don´t mind 1.5 hrs of catatonia.

Worst parody movie ever

[martin_villafuerte85 · 1/10 · 26 October 2005]

If you watched Pulp Fiction don't see this movie. This movie is NOT funny. This is the worst parody movie ever. This is a poor attempt of parody films.

The cast is bad. The film is bad. This is one of the worst pictures ever made.

I do not recommend Plump Fiction. I prefer the original Pulp Fiction by the great Quentin Tarantino. This is one of the worst parody films ever made.

Plump Fiction is not a good movie. It is not funny. It is so dumb and vulgar.

HAHAHA!! The Title Is Even "Amusing"!

[Stealth-5 · 4/10 · 22 July 2000]

Well,this movie is really "PLUMPED" HAHA Get it? Thats kinda like the attitude of this movie. The plot is just a copy of Pulp Fiction,okay thats acceptable,but to make this piece if "PLUMP" (haha)! is really unbelievable.The storyline is so pathetic,and the whole thing only gathered a few laughs. It did try making a few jokes from various other movies,and it failed most of the times. I mean,i do have a sense of humor,but this isnt really the way to go to get a laugh. Most of the supposedly "Funny" moments are completely ironic. The film is quiet short running at around 75 minutes overall. They could have done a much funnier job,seeming they made fun of a blockbuster film,they were gambling,and hey! I think they lost!

In overall PLUMP Fiction,is "PLUMPABLE" but you wont gather much at all!

Worth watching over and over again?: No once is enough,actually its more than enough!

So is it worth the rent? Ummm..As I said,Its "PLUMPABLE",but you will only gather a few "PLUMPS" from it!

Overall out of 10: a 4 out of 10!

Err... right...

[roadie_87 · 4/10 · 15 October 2003]

This can hardly be called a good movie, actually it's not even close. But I have to say, that there was a few things that made me... not laugh, not giggle, but something like that. The Resovoir Dogs parody was one of them. The rest are not important enough to be remembered.

To be honest, I was a little disappointed by this movie. The plot sounded like an idea, but it quickly fell to the ground. The whole thing was just to messy and the actors where not good for the characters; most of them simply overacted. There was also a whole lot of unessecary sequences, that was a total waste of film. I do realize that it would make the movie about 20 min shorter, but it would only make it better.

Now, with the good and the bad things lined up, let's go to the conclusion: two out of six toilet seats up for this one.

Nothing here is funny. Especially not as a spoof.

[travinitrav · 1/10 · 2 May 2021]

They just recreated famous movie and tv scenes lazily. There are no real jokes. Or the jokes were written by unfunny 10 year olds. Everything is strained and forced, nobody knows how to act including people who have legitimately acted in other movies, like Jennifer Rubin and Tommy Davidson.

I think the producers just assumed that remaking better movies in their own vision would automatically be funny. They dont know how to make humor of their own. The movie is only one hour and 19 minutes yet it feels much longer. Everything drags along slowly. I only put up with it to make a thorough review.

Its vastly inferior to any other spoof before it, and like the Movie movies which would come later, a phenomenal example of lazy creatively bankrupt Hollywood.

The Ultimate Independent Film parody.

[guitarplayer53 · 10/10 · 25 April 2000]

This was an excellent and well thought out parody. It was not only spoofing Pulp Fiction, but also, Reservoir Dogs, Natural Born Killers, and even Clerks. It is the ultimate independent film parody. The best parody I've ever seen. If you haven't seen any of the above mentioned films, then you wont get it. and if you've only seen pulp fiction you probably wont get it. This is why there are so many bad reviews on it, no one has seen the movies its based on. I would recommend this film to any indie fan or anyone who like the mentioned movies. The Christopher Walken impersonator alone is worth it.

Overall a funny parody, one hysterically funny scene

[demimonde_nc · 7/10 · 20 September 2000]

My sister and I watched this movie, having seen and enjoyed all the films it parodies. We thought as a parody it was pretty funny. The last scene set in the diner quite literally had me doubled over laughing -- I had to watch it again to see if I missed anything. The Juliette Lewis character was the best. She was dead on. (I hate Juliette Lewis, by the way, so I really enjoyed seeing her ridiculed

See Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs first.

[LindaKay · 6 August 1999]

A very funny parody if you like and have seen those movies first. If you haven't,you will not understand most of the jokes. A number of other movies are parodied in this too. Nell, Forrest Gump, Clerks, and others. The funniest line is when a diner waiter says to a customer "I've had this tuna fish sandwich up my &%$# for two years" If you haven't seen Pulp Fiction you would just think that it was a gross line.