The Burbs is an oddball comedy, and you can hardly call it that, but it's quite dark too with it's cannibalistic themes, but as I see it, is patently a misfire, where it borrows a little from other films. This is not the first time, we've been around this course of story. We suspect our new neighbors aren't what they seem scenario, where they're cannibals if to add some spice, and dark spice at that. When people, animals, start to go missing, there goes the neighborhood. Paranoid neighbors, Hanks, and his real paranoid eccentric neighbor, (a marvelous Bruce Dern) are determined to get to the bottom of this. Just check out Hank's "C'mon, you want to f..k with me, I'll take you on" expression on the cover. The Burbs, sadly wastes some bloody good actors, though we're glad to have them in this mess of suburbia, where in the end, The Burbs don't add up to much, in a sort of ho hum way. Courtney Gains is great as the head weirdo, Hans, the best thing about this flick, but you can't forget Dern either.
Review of The 'Burbs
