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By Justin N (249) on 12 Jan 2018

I can watch this flick over and over. Funny and so out there. Pizza dude…

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By Evokings (39) on 09 Jan 2018

I remember watching this movie at least a dozen times, the way it was set it one area was quite masterfully executed, you never leave the neighborhood,…

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By Brandon V (9) on 30 Oct 2017

Its quirky attitude and Joe Dante's direction are all welcome in making a sometimes intriguing, exaggerated world, but The Burbs is held back…

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By Corey S (464) on 30 Oct 2017

The 'Burbs, directed by Joe Dante, was awesome…

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By Grant W (306) on 18 Sep 2017

Its quirky attitude and Joe Dante's direction are all welcome in making a sometimes intriguing, exaggerated world, but The Burbs is held back…

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By Nicholas I (50) on 18 Sep 2017

Its quirky attitude and Joe Dante's direction are all welcome in making a sometimes intriguing, exaggerated world, but The Burbs is held back…

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By Candice Frederick (452) for Reel Talk Online (378) on 11 Sep 2017

Also starring Carrie Fisher, 'Burbs is a hilarious look at suburban mischief pre-Desperate Housewives. Check it out…

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By Richard S (2,067) on 07 Aug 2017

A fun neighbourhood story playing off movie tropes and the banality of suburban life…

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By Bill T (1,098) on 07 Aug 2017

A fun neighbourhood story playing off movie tropes and the banality of suburban life…

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By James C (2,975) on 07 Aug 2017

A fun neighbourhood story playing off movie tropes and the banality of suburban life…

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By Craig W (627) on 07 Aug 2017

Again I saw this a lot as a kid, I have to see it again…

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By Adam Lowes (75) for CineVue (2,163) on 28 Jun 2017

Skillfully mixing elements of horror while never alienating its core PG demographic, The 'Burbs also benefits from a wonderfully playful score…

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By Kim Newman (791) for Empire (3,446) on 28 Jun 2017

One of Tom Hanks' overlooked performances because this bizarre thriller-comedy ends so strangely but there's much to like here…

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By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 28 Jun 2017

This isn't a major Dante effort, but his ability to make a good-natured satire that allows an audience to read it several ways at once is as…

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By Jay Carr (837) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 28 Jun 2017

The 'Burbs tries to position itself somewhere between Beetlejuice and The Twilight Zone, but it lacks the dementia of the first and the wicked…

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By Hal Hinson (447) for Washington Post (9,851) on 28 Jun 2017

What's wrong with The 'Burbs? It's not funny. Why is it not funny? It's just not. Not remotely, momentarily, intermittently or otherwise funny…

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By Rick Groen (1,350) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 28 Jun 2017

So little goes on that it might be argued that The Burbs means to be a comment on the vacuity of popular entertainment in the television age,…

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By Jay Boyar (463) for Orlando Sentinel (1,594) on 28 Jun 2017

The folks who made The 'burbs appear to be card-carrying members of the School of Non-Urban Humor…

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By Kevin Thomas (1,201) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 28 Jun 2017

Grimly unfunny comedy needs all the help that it can get. It's so bad it doesn't deserve the boost a Hanks nomination for Big may give it…

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By Agatha T (26) on 07 May 2017

Has some moments with a group of suburban neighbours who become increasingly paranoid about the new family who moves in and culminates on them…

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