Saving Silverman (2001)

Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

Absolutely brilliant

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

I started watching this "movie" on the TV, hoping for some light relief. What I found instead was: Jack Black, Steve Zahn, the guy from American Pie (whose name I can't remember and don't care to check) and Amanda Peet. They played characters with different names, but given the extremely limited range of these "actors", names are irrelevant. Guess what? Black was an immature musician-slacker; Zahn was a dim-witted pushover; American Pie-guy was a passive weirdo and Peet wore a lot of plunging necklines. The plot, if there was one, was so irrelevant that I started wondering why women get breasts enlargement. If they wore what Peet wear in this, they would get full male attention, regardless of their breasts size.I digress… back to the plot… whatever it was, it was so well disguised by a truckload of gross jokes that I lost track of it. I guess the plot was an excuse for Black to be Black and for Peet to strut around. If you find that entertaining, then you might enjoy this….

This movie does not deserve the hate it apparently has gotten is my first line. We all have had or still do have that friend who is so blind to see that he is a puppet under an over controlling and abusing girlfriend. And this movie hits those notes perfectly.It is an perfect comedy with that theme. And yes it's a hilarious movie, anyone who tries telling you anything else is either lying or has a heart of ice and stone. Or simply doesn't have any humor. So do yourself a very big service and watch this movie about love, friendship and just some crazy jokes and actors.

This is one of my favorite movies. I can watch it over and over again. Being a Neil Diamond fan just puts the icing on the cake for me. Clever, funny, slapstick comedy at it's best. It reminded me of the old Laverne and Shirley episodes with lots of physical comedy and witty one liners. My daughter's and I quote this movie over and over again. Definitely worth the watch if you're in a the mood to laugh. The casting is excellent and all actors did a great job. I'm normally not a big Jack Black fan but he was excellent in this. There are many lines you will be quoting again and again. If you like Joe Dirt or Harold and Kumar, you will like this movie.

Sometimes a silly movie is really funny. This is one of those.Jack Black is perfect as J.D., a well-meaning but moronic slob. Steve Zahn is great as his slightly brighter buddy, Wayne. Darren Silverman (Jason Biggs), the title character and the third member of the trio of losers who've had a bond and a band (Neil Diamond tribute band) since grade school.Although the title character, and the man who the plot spins about, Silverman is seldom in the thick of the fun. That is provided by the antics of his two buddies in trying to save him from Judith (Amanda Peet), a successful educated women who finds Silverman convenient to have around after feigning interest in him to fend off a magician clumsily trying to hit on her. Their relationship is that of female domination of a willingly submissive male, although overt use of that terminology would ruin the movie. The domination includes Judith denying Darren sexual favors but demanding it from him.Darren's true "one and only" love is Sandy (Amanda Detmer), who left town with her family while in grade school, but moves back shortly after Darren gets besotted by Judith. Sandy is a novitiate who is to take her vows in a week.