Pauly Shore Is Dead (2003)

User Rating:

4.8/10   

Director:

Pauly Shore

Writers:

Kirk Fox (writer)
Pauly Shore (writer)

Genre:

Comedy

Tagline:

Hollywood will never be the same.

Plot:

Hollywood's Pauly Shore loses everything, fakes his own death, and gets caught!

Plot Keywords:

Death | Plan | Has Been | Stupidity | Liar

Awards:

1 win

Cast

Ashley L. Anderson	...	Ashley
Pamela Anderson	...	Herself
Camille Anderson	...	Michael Madsen's Girl
Beaumont Bacon	...	Pauly Look-A-Like Contestant
Adam Barnhardt	...	Lawrence
Dan Barnes	...	Cop #4
A.J. Benza	...	Himself
Susan Berger	...	Tourist #2
Jaime Bergman	...	Zoey Abernacky
Blunt	...	Newspaper Stand Attendant
Louis Freese	...	Himself (as B-Real)
Todd Bridges	...	Himself
W. Earl Brown	...	Bucky From Kentucky
Julia Brox	...	Springer Girl #2
Julie Bruce	...	Tourist #9 in Van

Also Known As:

Pauly Shore Is Dead (Australia)
You'll Never Wiez in This Town Again (USA) (working title)

MPAA:

Rated R for language, sexual content and some drug references.

Runtime:

USA:82 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Finland:K-15 | UK:15 | Germany:16 | Australia:MA | Canada:18A (Ontario) | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Trivia:

Most of the quick celebrity cameos were done by Shore quickly shooting scenes that required them during breaks on other movie sets.

Goofs:

Anachronisms: When Pauly and Kirk are driving through Los Angeles a billboard promoting the movie Red Planet (2000) is seen in the background. This scene is taking place in 1997, "Red Planet" wasn't released until 2000.

Quotes:

Pauly Shore: Is there a part in there for me? Hey, is there a part in there for me?

Movie Connections:

References "Seinfeld" (1990)

Soundtrack:

Four Walls

A decent movie (which gains a lot from the multiple big-name cameos)

Not exactly the ultimate satire movie about Hollywood or anything BUT it definitely has it's moments.

The biggest joy of the movie though, might be the incredible amount of big celebrity-names that show up in small cameo-parts in the movie, everyone from Ben Stiller to Britney Spears to Snoop Dogg to Tommy Lee to Sean Penn.

If you don't recognize at least 30 people in this movie you must have been living in a cave for the last 20 years.

Having big names in a movie sure it necessarily doesn't make a movie better, but it probably wouldn't have been as fun without them.

Storywise, it's just decent I suppose, it has some interesting ideas and it could have been a really good movie if the directing was a little better and they would have remained more focused on making it a true satire.

There are plenty of stupidity in the movie, of course, a lot of it is nasty fun but a lot is just plain nasty, I was not a fan of the call-girl/prostitutes scenes at all, but I guess they wanted people to feel sad for Pauly or something that he had to take it to that level, dunno.

Anyways, for the most parts of the movie, it's enjoyable enough to keep watching it through, it won't blow you away or anything but it's watchable.

Also the movie seemed to have been made with a no-budget, which confuse you even more how in the heck they got every celeb to appear in the movie, and a lot of scenes seems more or less improvised.

These 2 things sometimes works for the movies favor sometimes not.

It's far from a perfect movie by any means, BUT I did enjoy it even if a big reason was all those star-cameos in the movie.

5 out of 10 , Decent Movie.