Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.

MamaGravity good back-story, and good acting

Executscan Expected more

ActuallyGlimmer The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

gridoon2018 By no means the best of its subgenre, but when you feel like switching on a film that will require no thinking whatsoever, it will help you pass 80 minutes easily enough. Most of the gags are familiar, but I did laugh at certain points. It never really tops its opening sequence, a spot-on parody of convenience store shootouts, although my single favorite line comes later: "Quid pro quo, Mr. Colt" - "What the hell does that mean?" - "It means I'm pretentious!". ** out of 4

Hamish Joy The Lord of the Rings gang is back. This time, we are told the story of young Bilbo Baggins, how he is brought into an epic adventure that will eventually culminate in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Martin Freeman plays the young Bilbo Baggins, who is a happy-go-lucky hobbit in Middle Earth, who is enticed into a quest by the wizard Gandalf. On the quest is a small, but determined army of 13 dwarfs set to recover their rightful place/ home/ palace, Lonely Mountain, and their earnings in gold. They were driven away from this place by a fierce dragon, and nobody has been able to enter the castle since. However, the leader of the dwarfs, Thorin, has access to a key that may open up an alternate entrance.The dragon is keenly aware of dwarfs' smells, and may be alerted, but would be unlikely to notice a hobbit; a dragon would not have encountered a hobbit, as hobbits are by nature docile and non- confrontational. This is where Bilbo comes in, but the dwarfs, especially Thorin, are skeptical about his involvement, feeling that he would chicken out and be unreliable for the mission.I am not a Tolkien fan, and the LOTR movies were not my cup of tea, so I am not the right audience to comment on this. However, my two cents - Very picturesque directing, brilliant visual effects, and elaborate, if short action sequences litter the movie. 3D effects were really bad for me, but I think that may be more a comment on the theater than the movie - seeing as the 3D visuals were widely applauded. As brilliantly as the movie was done, it just didn't cut mustard with me. I felt underwhelmed; the movie felt too long, the plot too sparse, the characters too weak.One exception was Gollum. The scenes with Gollum were scary, intense, and powerful. Despite the short screen time, Gollum pulled off quite an effect.

TheLittleSongbird I laughed a lot when watching this movie, because it was so silly. I loved the cameos from Whoopi Goldberg and Denis Leary. I loved the silliness of the jokes. I loved the daftness of the story. This movie deserves to be highly rated as the whole point of a spoof is to laugh at the badness of it all, as most of it was just hilarious, and I mean that. I loved the references to other movies, without it becoming too offensive. The soundtrack was hip and cool, and the jokes on the whole worked. The performances were laugh out loud funny, especially from Estevez and Jackson, who couldn't be more different. (a bit like Rush Hour) There is also solid support from Jon Lovitz, Kathy Ireland, Tim Curry(with an accent that was a bit difficult to understand at times) and William Shatner. It did get a bit too silly at times, and the script suffered(though I loved the "no waking up without my penis is my worst nightmare" exchange between Jack and Jigsaw) but not that it was a huge disaster. Well worth watching if you're in a bad mood, or looking for fun! 8/10 Bethany Cox

donovan1983 Loaded Weapon 1 is not a masterpiece by any measure. It has plenty of moments that make you cringe at the bad acting and even worse attempts at spoofing the dozens of movies it takes aim at. Yet it has aged remarkably well and I'd rather watch this than a good number of the late-80s and early-90s movies it spoofs.Samuel L. Jackson and Emilio Estevez were very well cast for the lead roles. Imagining Jackson in a comedic role is a bit hard until you see how well he pulls it off in this movie, and he delivers some of the most memorable lines in the movie. Estevez is cast in a character that purposely requires a lot of over-acting and he does quite a good job at it. I think this is the most watchable of any movie where he is in a lead role.As others have mentioned, the number of recognizable names and cameos in this movie is pretty amazing for a movie that is pretty much a cheap shot at the movies that were popular when it was made. Charlie Sheen, Emilio Estevez's bother and a star of the Hot Shots! movies being made around the same time, appears in one scene. William Shatner, already known for being campy, puts his reputation to good use in playing General Mortars and makes the bad guy of the movie look absurd. Kathy Ireland just plain can't act although that may have been purposeful in this movie since it works for her role as Ms. Demeanor. James Doohan, Bruce Willis, Whoopie Goldberg, Dennis Leary, Joyce Brothers, and Phil Hartman are some of the other notable cameos and roles. Of course who could forget the lead characters from CHiPs appearing, too.I have to watch this at least a couple times a year and discover something new nearly every time I watch it. I can understand why it gets low ratings here, since if the movie is dissected enough it really doesn't stand up to much scrutiny, but as a whole it works very well as a spoof. Loaded Weapon 1 and the Hot Shots! movies are about the last notable National Lampoons efforts and among the best out of the (all too) numerous movies they made.