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Noutions Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .

Odelecol Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

Humbersi The first must-see film of the year.

Charles Herold (cherold) This parody of old TV romance mini-series has been described as an extended SNL sketch, but I'd actually describe it as an extended Carol Burnett Show sketch in style. They did a lot of these sorts of parodies (most famously a Gone with the Wind sketch), and the broad humor and general silliness remind me more of Burnett than SNL.What makes it more like SNL is that, like SNL, it's really not very funny. There are certainly cute moments, but there's a sophomoric quality to the humor that fails to resonate. Also, while the cast is fairly talented, for most of them this isn't their wheelhouse. These are not Burnett/Conway/Lawrence-style actors, and the very broad writing isn't pushed through by the subtler performance style.Humor is a very individual thing, and for some people this show is hilarious. For me, well, one user review said this show was a poor version of a series I'd never heard of, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, which also parodied an old, badly-made series, and I found the first episode of that on youtube. I watched just a few minutes of it and laughed more than during the entire first episode of Spoils (I was almost breathless during the handshake scene). So basically the best thing that came out of watching this is I learned about something a lot funnier.

FilmBuff1994 The Spoils of Babylon is a great mini-series with a well developed storyline that is stretched out nicely in to six half hour episodes.There are plenty of very funny scenes throughout the series,the best ones involving Tobey Maguire,Kristen Wiig and Will Ferrell,while every actor does their best in this series,these three seemed the most interested.The series is a parody of old drama series,this is funny most if the time,but certain times the joke of making the show seem "old and lazy" goes too far and stops being funny after awhile.There are a tone of very well known actors throughout the six episodes,there isn't one single episode that dosen't bring in a new character played by a very well known actor.While the Spoils of Babylon isn't a perfect and hilarious comedy series from start to finish,and I certainly think the show started off better and got a little weaker towards the end,it's only six episodes long,which won't take away a lot if time,and with a great comedic cast and plenty of hilarious scenes,it is definitely worth the watch.Story of Devon and Cynthia Morehouse (Tobey Maguire and Kristen Wiig),a young girl and her adopted brother,who start a relationship as they rise to power together because of their deceased fathers wealth.

Diego Cumplido Spoof comedy hasn't been this good in YEARS. I was really surprised with the smart and subtle sense of humor and the beauty of how it looks. Kristen Wiig is a comedy genius and each scene with her on it is pure gold.This mini-series manages to make fun of the medium itself, and that's something I've been missing in comedy lately.Probably the nearest neighbor (in both quality and style) for The Spoils of Babylon in television is the Police Squad! TV Series, and more than 20 years have passed since that show. And Spoils of Babylon takes things further than that. It's the next step.Other than that, maybe the "Italian Spiderman" and "Danger 5" are the closest things being done, but is nice to see U.S. creatives getting back at this kind of humor.

sheepgrazing Don't waste your time watching this crap I was looking forward to this and was BITTERLY DISAPPOINTED with the level of garbage that this show is. I would give it a negative score if it would let me. I have never seen these actors in such awful shows and will never look at them the same again ......stupid, ......childish, ......unadulterated crap ......and then they throw in the inference of incest ....that was enough for me to delete it. I really don't get the American humour. School kids could probably do better. I hope they didn't spend too much money making this tripe. Please excuse me now while I go and scoop my eyeballs and brain out with a melon-baller to try and remove this garbage from my memory.