Pawn Stars

2009
7.2| 0h30m| TV-PG| en
Synopsis

Go inside the colorful world of the pawn business. At the Gold & Silver Pawn Shop on the outskirts of Las Vegas, generations of the Harrison family run the family business, and there’s clashing and camaraderie every step of the way.

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Reviews

Actuakers One of my all time favorites.
Nayan Gough A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.
Verity Robins Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.
Tymon Sutton The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.
volpato-lorenzo Why this show is on History channel?! I just see poor people trying to earn a few dollars and four fat men that kid on them , treating 'em as idiots. I understand that , with show like these, the channel have not to pay for professional actors and screenwriters............but...why this awful and useless show is considered something to be aired on History channel? But the thing i really do not understand is how a normal-minded person can watch at those barrels of grease, at this stupid ,idiot and useless show.I'm Italian and I pay monthly a lot of money to see History channel,and in 2007 this channel did send history documentaries. Today It's all about people that try to earn money with old stuff,people that make money offers to buy a stock of objects set in a storage room,people trying to find some treasure in some place.There's not history, nothing about the things that an History-addicted can find useful. History channel should just change its name.
nyyb First off, in a lot of reviews of the show and shop, many people who have visited the shop are disappointed because they didn't see any of the four stars. Well, you won't see them. In an article I read about Rick, he says that "The privacy laws in Las Vegas prohibit any of the four of us working on the floor of our own store!!!" If they do appear, "all the people bring out their cameras and start shooting pictures", and that apparently is a violation of the laws.Now, about the show. I have watched almost every episode since it started. What I like about the show is all of the interesting and unusual items people bring in and the stories about them by Rick and the experts. So what if it's staged and a lot of the items are brought in from collections or other sources and the person pawning it was standing in line to get in a half hour ago. It's the objects themselves that are the stars.The silly banter between the stars was funny - The Old Man always had the best lines, and Chumlee was usually the target of many of their jokes. At the time I compared him to Gilligan - a nice guy who is always trying to do the right thing, but many times things just don't go his way. , Lately, over the last couple of seasons, Chumlee has changed from the likable guy to a rude, ignorant, obnoxious slob who does NOTHING but try to do as little work as possible, and get as much time off work as he can (even lying to the bosses to get it). He never follows his boss's instructions and thinks they should do things his way. He does nothing when he is in the shop other than keeping their security guard from doing his job with his stupid ideas or in the office telling Rick how he should run the shop.I cannot imagine anyone like that keeping any job anywhere for more than a day or two at most. He is also an inappropriate role model for all the kids who think he is funny.He has become so dislikable that instead of watching it, I tape it so I can fast-forward whenever he appears. Corey is becoming disliked too because he is becoming a smart-ass and does little other than run down his father. If you read reviews on other sites, an awful lot of people have got fed up with the young pair and have dumped the show. Get rid of Chumlee and their slumping ratings might start to rise.
darkquill I HAD been a long time fan since conception of your program, but last year I finally got fed up with the absurd juvenile antics which had come to take the place of the great history rhetoric Rick used to provide and the general education via unique items and paraphernalia otherwise never to be seen or heard of by the layman.With much travail and hesitation my wife and I decided to bid adieu to the program so long having been a part of our entertainment and topics of conversation. Deleting that timer from our DVR was actually traumatic, silly as that sounds, for it felt as if we were restricting ourselves from access to a part of our very own family.Imagine our GREAT delight when this year your advertising campaign was aimed at delivering a message of "going back to basics," or so we gathered from watching them. With much delight, I re-sat a timer for PAWN STARS and we were ready to go! After the first four episodes our disappointment was gut-wrenching, you were right back to the same asinine stupidity and themes aimed at Chum's flaunting his ignorance and retarded/obstinate head-butting with Rick to prove his non-conformist viewpoints. His waddling around a place of business in flip-flops and the pathetic display with the "Bearer of the Note" being the exact sort of infantile displays of stupidity, backed with agreement and encouragement from Corey just to agitate Rick; I think you underestimate how much it DOES agitate people with a normal brain and certainly business oriented and/or persons of a physical or MENTAL age past 15.So, once again, I have deleted my timer for Pawn Stars. I know you don't care about one person, but just so you know, everyone I know has done the same. People are simply sick to death with the childish, immature displays of adolescent contempt for authority figures and disregard for any sense of normal business practices or respect for their elders or management. Corey owning part of the business does not grant him a right to be respected, his friendship and antics with Chum may delight the teenagers, but I doubt many of them are spending the big bucks in your store or steadfastly watching your program, as those you continually agitate with the absurd frolicking and bizarre behavior of the moronic imbeciles viewers must tolerate in order to hear a few tidbits of wisdom from Rick and true professionals.Once upon a time, we looked forward to this show with GREAT anticipation, loved the history of the items presented and the education gained, but now it is a sad soap opera of pathetic BS and whiny, immature characters acting like .........well, there aren't words for it. It is pathetic. It is scripted, plot oriented garbage revolving around an imbecile without responsibility or common sense. I HOPE that Corey and Chum are truly not as ignorant and immature in real life and their behavior on the show is someone's sad, pathetic concept of a way to grab an audience of 15 year old boys, forgoing their appeal to adult audiences entirely.
Joseph Pelatohri The first few seasons of this show weren't bad. The majority of the show revolved around the items brought into the shop. Sure, there were some annoying side-scripts involving the different cast members (e.g. Chumlee acting foolish or the old man falling asleep) but it wasn't the focus and thus didn't detract from the show too much.Fast forward to the last year or two. The show has devolved into something borderline unwatchable. The "annoying side-scrips" are now the focus of the show. The acting is so incredibly obvious that it makes you feel foolish for even watching.I'm not sure why the folks at the History channel feel the need to throw in all this scripted garbage. The original formula (the one that made the show so popular in the first place) allowed the show to practically write itself.Anyway, if you're just getting into the show, my recommendation would be to check out all the older episodes. There are a lot of really cool items and facts with only a limited amount of nonsense.