Wordiezett So much average

Lawbolisted Powerful

Steineded How sad is this?

Logan By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Nick Hebb This is a perfect dark comedy. Plain and simple. It's pretty unknown, but it's a film that needs a viewing.Bobcat puts on one helluva show, he is a unique writer, director, and actor. Learning that this was his first movie he wrote, directed, and starred in made it all the more interesting. Tom Kenny's role still gives me the creeps! I can't picture him as anything else.I highly recommend this movie to all fans of dark humor, or fans of Bobcat. It truly is the Citizen Kane of alcoholic clown movies. It's a 90's movie, so the campy humor will be abundant, but it still holds to this day. Check this movie out, you will not be disappointed, it's easily in my top 10 movies of all time.

HanPolo I downloaded this movie years after putting it on my watchlist because I had seen it mentioned in one of those Men's Journal "100 Movies Every Guy Should See" lists. In the end, its presence on a list like that might be appropriate, but don't reshuffle your own watchlist to make room for it.The cast is actually terrific. Bobcat Goldthwait in a forgettable lead role still filled the role nicely, and with such a star-studded supporting crew, the cast is actually the most memorable thing about this movie. Adam Sandler and Blake Clark have major roles throughout, which was no doubt a fertile time for the two to bounce ideas off one another, thus sparking a screen relationship that would help fuel Sandler's meteoric rise through 1990s comedy. Kathy Griffin is the feminist friend of the lead actress, Julie Brown, who later played Ms. Stoeger in Clueless. Even Robin Williams made a cameo appearance as a catty mime instructor, surely offering at least a few laughs with his pre-GWH clown-like demeanor.Unfortunately, this semi-Allstar cast was paired with terrible writers. Sure, there is the occasional line or two that elicit laughs from even the most lifeless of cynics, but the viewer can't help but follow a very contrived script throughout the movie, and only the body language of the actors themselves seems to save the screenplay from itself. Overall, simply by recognizing the significance of the cast, all together as early as 1991, is enough to take from this movie what it has to offer most. I can't recommend making time for it, but if someone brings it over and you're in an agreeable mood, put it in and enjoy a lot of hidden humor (background gags and subtle one-liners) in this alcoholic cult-classic.

bobcolganrac How can anyone watch this movie and not get it...??!?!? It's brilliant. It is quite simply, as Goldthwait himself put it, the consummate drunken alcoholic clown movie that retires the genre for all time. Not that we don't need more drunken clown movies . . . after 8 years of Bush and Cheney we may need a hiatus----but the need WILL return. It always does. I don't wish to unfairly prejudice any future viewer of this gem: it has a few flaws: sometimes the face paint is streaky, and some of the clowns use foul language. But the true charm of STC isn't in the occasional swearing (every other word) or the odd droopy rubber nose: it's in the brilliance of the film. Goldthwait wrote this primarily because of what he does, comedy, and he wrote this with all his friend comedians in mind, and most of them are in the movie with him, so it's even richer. His best friend Robin Williams got cast as a mime instructor who berates the class loudly with savage jibes. Adam Sandler and Blake Clark are clown friends who help their buddy when he's down and out. And he's out and down a lot. It is a marvelous allegory, and all the better because he treats it as if he were writing for a normal cast of actors. Surrealism overlaid with realism. Wonderfully perverse! The idea of creating a clown world, and showing the clowns as completely screwed up soap opera characters replete with fears and jealousies, worries and even villainous impulses --- there are even clown wars with other clown groups, and mimes are hated --- cannot be undervalued. This is very creative and original stuff. Goldthwait's script sparkles as four-letter poetry. Tremendous cast. Very few movies have had such a stellar line up of comedic actors: the only other ones I can think of are "It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World" and "The Aristocrats" which is actually more of a documentary than scripted film. I don't wish to say more about this . . . the only reason I wrote this is when I saw the rating of 4.7...?!?!?? What the hell were people watching that they didn't appreciate this movie for the amazing film it is ??? I am starting to wonder about my fellow members of the human race . . . it's as if they WANT to lose ------ and NOT getting a movie like this is a great start. I think we're already in the toilet and it's getting darker....5 out of 10 viewers not getting this movie is just more proof.You're the best, Bobcat. No matter what the other clowns say about you.

Big I remember my girlfriend and I going to see this movie in great anticipation on its opening weekend back in 1992. It just seemed perfect -- a comedy about a down-and-out clown with a drinking problem. Had a solid cast as well with impressive cameo appearances. The sub-plot with the rivalry between mimes and clowns was another great idea.But it was, and remains, in the top 5 of the most disappointing and inexcusably awful films I've ever endured. Some films are bad due to low budget, or poor talent, or bad concept (or a combination of these things), but this had everything it needed and failed -- resoundingly -- on all fronts. I remember sitting there with my sweet girlfriend and just waiting and waiting for a laugh -- anything -- to show up. Only one thing made us laugh -- when Shakes is trash-talking with another clown in the clown bar and the clown is at a loss for words and says something like, "Well, you're the captain of the diarrhea club". Doesn't sound funny does it? In any other film it would have been a terrible and disgusting line but to a tearful of moviegoers desperate for a laugh, it was like water in the desert.My lasting impression of this film was how deeply mean-spirited, overly dark, cruel, and scatological it was. It was as if 11-year-old bullies were given the task to write/direct/produce a major motion picture. Those attributes are rarely really funny, even to pre-teens.You WILL be disappointed with this film -- it doesn't even have value as something to poke fun at. Instead of watching this film, watch "Kingpin" instead, which is a similar sort of film but is actually watchable and humorous at times.