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A loser and an idiot savantless introduce a monkey man to the 20th century
Summary Capsule
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Justin's Rating: I know all of the words to the Feed The Monkey song! Okay, I lie...
Justin's Review: Wow, talk about a trip down the scary passageways of memory lane. I have, in my possession, the VHS of Encino Man, which has got to be one of the earliest movies that I owned. And then, judging my the price sticker still attached, one of the earliest movies that I desperately tried to get rid of at a garage sale. Maybe I was trying to erase the history of my senior year of high school, of which seeing this movie was a cultural peak. I must have watched Encino Man dozens of times that summer at the video store. At least I graduated to bigger and better things, we think.
(I'm not even going to mention owning the soundtrack. Which was even worse.)
Encino Man is the heroic epic of one man's journey through time to become part of a three-way platonic love triangle of men. After being thawed out from deep freeze, the Neanderthal caveman makes an easy transition into modern California society, possibly because you could paint your body purple, attach various plumbing implements to your head, and march down the street without anyone there saying, "Huh." Our caveman is Brendon Frasier, seen here in his pre-George of the Jungle persona, who is adopted by Sean "the non-swimming hobbit" Astin and Pauly "the Bride of Satan" Shore.
Yes, more than anything else, Encino Man marks the unleashing of Pauly Shore into the cineplexes of the world, an era that lasted for about four horrible, mind-altering years. And the truly pathetic thing was, in 1994, I thought his "bu-ddy" speech patterns kinda cool. I know. Shoot me. Pauly Shore is fairly consistent in his roles, and can be identified as:
...the guy wearing colors terribly wrong for men, such as Hot Pink
...unnecessarily pausing in the middle of most words
...putting "-age" at the end of words, long before it was made officially cool by Buffy the Vampire Slayer
...being a spastic loser who tries to emit "love me though me pathetic" vibes
This fish-outta-water story is now merely serviceable as a public service announcement educating the dangers of the early nineties. This was a time which was too in love with the overfashion, overcolorization, overcoolness of the eighties, and as a result, self-imploded. I'm not saying that grunge was ever cool, but by golly, we needed it to counter acid-washed everything and the infatuation with clothing and hair. Grunge HATED clothing and hair. For example, Nirvana was entirely naked and devoid of body hair.
So if you're in the mood for some weird-age in your day, pick up a dose of EM and just try not to recoil in horror every time Pauly Shore says "weasel" and makes with the fast tongue action.
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 1992 Rated PG High School Comedy Director
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Is It Worth Staying Through End Credits?
We have no idea (but we'll let you know soon!)
The Movie Store!
Intermission!
Link (Fraser) returns for a cameo in Son In Law. In the party scene, Pauly Shore's character walks by Link, who takes a frog out of Shore's hat and bites into it.
Official and Not-So-Official Websites
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David: Matt Wilson? What a jerk! What does she see in him, anyway?
Stony: Well, he's got the buff spikes chillin' on top of his melon, obviously bro, and--dude, he's checking her cheeks! oh oh!--and he's got his own personal holding company full of fundage, bro, that he weases off of me. He has 18-inch bi's--mine are only 4--plus he walks like this. [struts in a manly fashion] The nugs fully lose it.
Stony: You gotta wheeze the juice.
Stony: If you're edged 'cause I'm weezing of your grindige, don't be, 'cause if I had the whole Brady Bunch thing going on over at my pad, I'd go grind over there. So don't tax my gig so hard core cruster!
Matt: SHOOSH!
Soundtrack Review
Okay, maybe I trashed it a little too much... it's not a terrible album, with some tracks by Queen and Cheap Trick (with a remake of "Wild Thing").
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