Thanks for the memories!

Just perfect...

Excellent adaptation.

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

This is more in the vein of the Coen Brothers than the Zucker Brothers really, or at least their comedies. "Quirky" is the watchword here. Bits of the Hudsucker Proxy (other than the similarities in the name) and Raising Arizona, with the jaundiced eye of the outsider looking in on a white-bread culture that died a merciful death. Jeff Daniels stars as Fred Barlow, the psychotically devoted leader of a vacuum cleaner distributorship who's behind the 8-ball to sell more product. He comes upon an insightful innovation that helps him rise to the top once more. Lots of goof ball action by dorky Midwestern white people in the out-of-place, out-of-time milieu of the fictional Johnson City, where two teams of vacuum cleaner salespeople vie to take over the territory. Mock melodramatic speeches, inappropriate stirring music cues, and gang fights between vacuum cleaner salesmen. The characters seem plucked from a 1950's sitcom, even though the setting is supposedly present day. Do they even sell vacuum cleaners door-to-door anymore? Gotta love Jeff Daniels' sharkskin suit. Overall, quite amusing if it's on cable, but I wouldn't go out of my way to find it.Jeff Daniels directed this, and I think he did a swell job, gosh darn it! Sy Suckerton would be proud as punch!Fred Barlow: "Did I ever have sex with your mother? No? Too bad, you would have made a hell of an illegitimate son."

Humm... Let's see.... Horrible comes first... Horrible at second and Horrible at third.I only watched it because I was tired of returning it back... came all the way from the video store for nothing.Trust me on this, I've seen bad movies... But not to this extent. The plot is useless, the storyline is irrelevant, there is no point in looking, hearing, following anything in the movie.It's all a bunch of people, jiggling about a lot of things... The sarcasm in this movie is being maintained thourghout the movie... No rest, it's all dumb, all the way.

After watching this movie, I decided that all movies that I do not finish will be given a "1" rating on IMDB - after all, if someone who wants to watch a movie is watching one, and then stops it because it's horrid, there's something seriously wrong.I stopped after 25 minutes. The biggest allure of this movie was personal, as the lead character looked like an awful boss I had, and I enjoyed watching him live a sad existance as a door to door salesman. If I hadn't of been for this fact alone, I think this would've held my intelligence for 18 minutes. Maybe 19.This is a bad movie due to the fact that you can only make so many jokes about a door to door salesman, and when they're not good, the entire idea collapses. Yes, we understand his life is pathetic, but that's not good enough to make a movie. The lives of the people in Office Space were pathetic (wait, I'm like those people), but I'd consider that movie to be about a nine on the laughs scale, while this movie got a 1.If I had a kid sister, she could've done better for a 3rd grade english project. Pass on this one.

Believe it or not...My husband is a vacuum cleaner salesmen...Door to door. So we rented this movie expecting a giggle...The sad part is..most people that work in the industry are this dorky. I know..I used to sell vacuum cleaners too. We would open our morning meeting with songs, and yell about being positive. It was truelly a dark time in my life...LOL Thankfully my hubby is not a dork... he is funny, and honest..and dogone it his customers like him. Back to the movie...My point I guess it that, this isn't a funny movie..because it's really what these vacuum guys act like...They have steak and beans contests...and are always spouting about a contest. I love the part with the cat, but that was the only giggle I got..We turned it off after an hour, I'm not sure if it was because it hit too close to home...and looked really depressing..or...it really just SUCKED...no pun intended.