
A satirical glimpse at the early 21st century in which impressionists Phil Cornwell and John Sessions send up celebrity culture, including: Keith Richards and Mick Jagger, who run a corner shop; Jack Nicholson and Al Pacino, who rub shoulders in a leafy lane in suburbia; and David Bowie, who has his underpants starched and ironed by an uptight cockney charlady named Mrs. Huggett. Megastars come and go, but nothing escapes the watchful eye of their long-suffering neighbor, Mic... (Full plot summary below)
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A satirical glimpse at the early 21st century in which impressionists Phil Cornwell and John Sessions send up celebrity culture, including: Keith Richards and Mick Jagger, who run a corner shop; Jack Nicholson and Al Pacino, who rub shoulders in a leafy lane in suburbia; and David Bowie, who has his underpants starched and ironed by an uptight cockney charlady named Mrs. Huggett. Megastars come and go, but nothing escapes the watchful eye of their long-suffering neighbor, Michael Caine.
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| San Francisco ChroniclePeter HartlaubBy the time audience members start to get the joke, the film is already over. |
| New York PostMegan LehmannA sporadically amusing curiosity that falls short of effectively satirizing the public's fixation with the minutiae of celebrity lives. |
| Boxoffice MagazineL.J. StromPart mockumentary, part sketch humor, Stella Street achieves only sporadic success as a movie. |
| L.A. WeeklyElla TaylorAt full length its still pretty funny, but only for its natural 30 minutes, after which it grows repetitive and tiresome as only material meant for the short attention span can. |
| The New York TimesAnita GatesThe concept doesn't translate well to the longer form. The sense of the absurd is watered down. |
| New York Daily NewsJami BernardSome of the jokes will elude Americans while the movie's hip quotient gradually fades away. |
| Los Angeles TimesKevin CrustOnce the filmmakers have got the celebrities settled into Stella Street, they have a hard time figuring out what to do with them. Stella Street is the road best not taken. |
| TV Guide MagazineKen FoxSurprisingly humor-free. Worse, with the exception of Cornwell's brilliant Bowie, the impersonations aren't particularly good, and can be found in any two-bit comedian's repertoire. |
| Village VoiceEd ParkA huge problem with the whole shebang is that the impressions (all courtesy Cornwell and Sessions) are shaky at best. |
| The Hollywood ReporterMichael RechtshaffenWhat might have achieved a degree of cult status across the pond when it was aired in 10-minute installments, struggles to pass big-screen scrutiny. |