A week in the life of "The Gong Show" host and creator Chuck Barris who lives through a series of outrageous competitors, stressful situations, a nervous breakdown and other comical characters involved in his life and work on the TV show.... (Full plot summary below)
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A week in the life of "The Gong Show" host and creator Chuck Barris who lives through a series of outrageous competitors, stressful situations, a nervous breakdown and other comical characters involved in his life and work on the TV show.
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| eFilmCritic.comRob GonsalvesA fascinating public act of career seppuku. |
| Creative LoafingMatt BrunsonFollowing Chuck Barris around as he deals with folks clamoring to be on the show, it's less A Hard Day's Night and more a hard day's watch. |
| User ReviewYour FriendNot a well-known movie...but damn funny!! |
| User ReviewVolcanoNot an Oscar contender by any means, but man is this movie a riot!! Gong show fans will howl with laughter, especially at the finale!! |
| User ReviewZoran SEntertaining and a mess, but watchable and enjoyable at times. Besides anything with Rip Taylor has to be put up on the mantle |
| User ReviewEric HWritten in part by the late Robert Downey (of Greaser's Palace fame), though probably re-written a great deal by its star Chuck Barris, this pseudo-fiction mockumentary, like its namesake TV show on which it was based, was ahead of its time, paving the way for such masterpieces as the Christopher Guest-directed This Is Spinal Tap and Waiting for Guffman. Barris, creator of the Dating Game and the Gong Show practically invented crap, pseudo-reality television some two decades before crap, pseudo-reality television would overtake television. In fact, he would take the form to the limit doing just about everything one can do with the form, which simply put isn't much. Where would American Idol be without the Gong Show? I defy anyone to tell me the two shows are all that much different. At least the Gong Show had an amusing and fun way of judging, and not the self-serving patter of the latter show. The Gong Show Movie portrays an aging Barris as undergoing a nervous breakdown, trapped by the show that brought him fame, swamped by fans who treat their encounter with him as an audition. Intercut with Barris' slow and generally unfunny and self-absorbed breakdown (it was the "Me Decade" after all) are scenes cut from the actual show, which are hilarious and utterly fascinating on so many levels, but which are far too brief and cut too quickly. There's a lot of promise here, however, with some good supporting performances (including a first screen appearance by the late, great Phil Hartman), though I'm afraid the same cannot be said about Barris or his wife, who are strictly amateurs. Their on-screen sincerity is laughable. Watching Barris on-screen, though, I'm reminded of Clooney's Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (featuring an incredible and spot-on performance of Barris by a real actor, Sam Rockwell) an interesting take on Barris' excellent and fascinating autobiography in which claims he was in fact a CIA contract killer and the Gong Show was his cover. No kidding. While it's hard to take Barris on his word, it's easy to understand how he could have come up with this story; it provided him with a dramatic escape from the absurdity that his life had become. This film, then, stands as an interesting middle-piece occupying the freshly absurd richness of the Gong Show and the "let's just dance" attitude of the 70s, and the coldly cynical detachment that produced both the book and film of Dangerous Mind. It's entirely of its time, a kind of Altmanesque menagerie of scenes that hang together only by the increasingly psychotic energy of its players. And it points toward the desperate "everyone's a celebrity" mentality vomited up by the mass media in their desperation to fill up the magazines and television screens and newspapers, and which now clog the internet with blogs and, dare I say it, facebook accounts. Recommended, with reservations. |
| User ReviewBojana BI saw this movie when I was twelve in the end of the year school trip, and yes is as I remember sleazy |
| User ReviewCraig CTrashed by critics in its Summer 1980 release, this cultural artifact will appeal to all those that loved the Gong Show anarchy. Either you get it or you don't. |
| User ReviewSenor CAs everyone & their brother's mother search for their 15 minutes of fame Chucky Baby has a breakdown & flees to the desert of Morocho only to be followed by the lunatics he tries to escape. A true cult flix w/out any home video release so if you catch it on some back water channel be sure to snap it up..look for Phil Hartman in a small bit role as an aeroplane high jacker |
| User ReviewJohn AThis show introduced true 'trash TV'. Without The Gong Show there would be no American Idol or America's Got Talent. The movie itself is rather boring but it is the various actual Gong Show skits taken from the actual show itself that makes this movie entertaining to watch. Just get your fast-forward finger ready to fast-forward to the best parts. |
