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I've seen it....It's well worth checking out. It's no Citizen Kane, but it's pretty entertaining while trying to be more than just entertaining (there's a lot of sadness running through the movie), and both Bruce Campbell and Ossie Davis are really great--if you like Bruce Campbell, he's at his best here. Plus, kind of amazingly, it doesn't insult your intelligence: to give one example--skip this part if you don't want to know anything about the movie, though this is a very minor part that doesn't give anything away--JFK's room is made up to look like the Oval Office. A lowest-common-denominator Hollywood director would've included lines of dialogue to make sure that everyone in the audience knew exactly what the Oval Office is and why it's funny that JFK's room looks like it, but Don Coscarelli (Bubba's director) doesn't refer to it once, letting the audience figure out the joke for itself.
And oh yeah, a lot of it is really, really funny....Ultimately, it's a really solid movie. Not perfect, but definitely not a waste of time, either.
Bonus fun: I saw Bruce Campbell in Decatur IL at a theater that was showing Army of Darkness, and afterward he signed copies of his book and other stuff--for five hours. The fact that so many people know him in small-town Illinois is one thing; the fact that the guy would stick around until something like 3am to make sure everyone had a chance to meet him says a lot about his appreciation of his fans. Granted that most of these fans were buying his stuff, but still, nice guy, that Bruce....
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