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Excellent but underrated film

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Some loser former used car salesman and his dumb gravedigger friend decide to work for some mobster/strip joint owner. Their first job is to drive a truck with cigarette boxes across the border. They make a quick stop and the truck blows up. Now they owe the mobster.To get the money they come up with the brilliant idea to dig up the corpse of a rich lady that died recently, in the hopes of stealing an expensive necklace. They dig her up to find no necklace. When a fellow cemetery employee shows up they decide to take the corpse with them to the house of the mom of one of them.The loser figures a plan to kidnap the corpse for ransom and try to get money from the rich husband. In the process they learn more about the dead woman's past and discover some mysteries all the while the mobster is trying to get his money back.As with all comedies, the story is intricate and the movie has some heart despite the bizarre circumstances. The goofs are likable enough. The women are gorgeous, in particular Melissa Keller and Audrey Marie Anderson. A somewhat unrecognizable Amber Heard is in this movie, too. Unfortunately, the movie makes no good use of the beautiful women. And they can't save this comedy. A raunchy comedy, even if black, should be, well, raunchy and funny. But this movie fails miserably on both counts.

Two best friends Frank (Jason Lee) and Eddie (Crispin Glover) wants to have their big break in their lives. Frank goes nowhere with his jobs, while Eddie makes an odd connection with the corpses for the graves he digs for the funerals. Frank gets paid $25,000 if he could transported $250,000 in merchandise to Mexico. Frank brings his friend along for the ride but the truck unexpectedly blows up along the way. Now Frank and Eddie have to come up with the situation to make $250,000 fast. Frank thinks the recently deceased woman named Crystal (Melissa Keller) could make them fast money. Since Eddie thinks she was buried with her jewelry. When Eddie dug up her body. There's no jewelry but Franks thinks that he and his buddy still could kidnapped her dead body for ransom! But they find themselves way over their head... when it comes to Crystal's husband (Xander Berkely), a sleazy gangster (Pruitt Taylor Vince), Frank's noisy mother (Lin Shaye) and the endless scams that Frank is trying to pull off.Directed by Michael Philip made an entertaining but wildly uneven black comedy gets comedic mileage from Lee's and Glover's performances. The film improves along the way with some clever plot twists and a few good funny sequences. This independent comedy is pretty good, it's really slow at first but it gets better... thanks to a lively cast.The Canadian DVD from VVS Films. DVD has an sharp anamorphic Widescreen (1.78:1) transfer. Although there's some digital image problems at times. DVD also has an good Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound. There's no special features in this Canadian DVD. Fans of Lee's and Glover's will find this more enjoyable than others. But it's clever enough black comedy, you might find some amusement. Brad Dourif appears in a fine cameo. Worth a look. (*** 1/2 out of *****).

It seems like Drop Dead Sexy started out with an interesting idea for a dark comedy, but ran aground somewhere in the writing process. The plot holes, awkward characters, and rather thin resolution make me wonder if money ran out somewhere along the way and the script was hastily finished and/or doctored up to get the movie released quickly.Jason Lee is surprisingly flat as the main character. I am guessing the problem is, again, more in the writing than the actor since Lee is doing a great job playing another hapless loser in My Name Is Earl. Crispin Glover was probably the only consistently funny character in the movie (and, I must admit, the reason I checked it out in the first place). His innate awkwardness lends a special humor to a role that could have otherwise been played as the naive idiot sidekick.Drop Dead Sexy isn't without its funny moments, most coming from the interactions between Lee and Glover, but it does suffer from lowbrow humor (e.g. the running joke about a gay biker named Tiny) that actually feels like an afterthought. In better hands this could have been a great dark comedy and possibly a cult classic, but instead it will probably languish as a trashy comedy stuck next to Dorm Daze in the local Blockbuster.

This movie will be great for the college market. I just attend the world premiere last night and had a great time. I normally don't laugh out loud while watching a movie unless it is Dumb and Dumber. But I found myself laughing out loud a lot. The quote that I heard the most after watching this film is "Wow, that was really funny. I didn't think it would be that funny." Jason Lee controls the laughs with his comic timing. Normally spooky Crispin Glover, offers a shockingly funny performance. Drop Dead Sexy shows what can be made on an independent budget with a great cast and good writing. Film schools teach that making an independent film like this is possible but seldom is done. I would suggest that any college student to go see this movie.