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It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

It's complicated... I really like the directing, acting and writing but, there are issues with the way it's shot that I just can't deny. As much as I love the storytelling and the fantastic performance but, there are also certain scenes that didn't need to exist.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

In reference to the review by Zogmorph dated 5 Octo 2004: I worked on this picture in a supporting capacity. I was also at the screening Zogmorph mentions, and yes, there was an almost total walkout by the audience. A few stayed and actually gave us some good feedback. I want to point out that this movie was made in 1988, four years before Wayne's World (1992) and Wayne's World 2 (1993), which ushered in an era of gross-out comedies, including titles like There's Something About Mary (1998) and other Mike Myers efforts like the three Austin Powers movies. Gross-out comedy is now big box office, with recent examples like The Hangover I & II and even female gross-out like Bridesmaids. The reason the audience at the screening walked out was because the ladies in those days couldn't stand the gross-out elements (which by today's standards are fairly mild) and they dragged their boyfriends with them. The fact that the other reviews on this posting page (all written between 1999 and 2006) are uniformly positive is proof that 2 Idiots was way ahead of its time. The movie is based on a stage play done in Los Angeles in the mid-1980s, and the entire cast of the play ended up in the movie. We all had a terrific time, and speaking on behalf of the cast & crew, we agree with Andrew Jones from London, Les Boulez from North Carolina, and Anonymous from Cincinnati. I can't wait to see Tobolowsky's planned sequel, 2 Idiots Go to Jail. --Written by Frederick Bailey, Production Associate/Nude Chauffeur/Robot From Outer Space

True- The first time you see this movie, you aren't really sure what hit you, that is if anything hit you at all. What I recommend is that you consider the title of the movie before you watch it and you won't be disappointed. This movie was actually very clever and took a great deal of intelligence to write and put together. Simply put, it is an over the top satire about the excesses of the Hollywood and the people running it. It follows two mopes from Ohio, Murhpy Wagg and Taylor Dup (with one "p") who go to California on a whim, like some many other people to find jobs in the Motion Picture Industry. The ideas that they (the movies characters) come up with aren't too far off from other movies being made nowadays, that is where the real comedy and genius of this picture are. Hollywood executives, big and small, giving us one rotten movie only to sell us another one, a sequel, or some other garbage franchise that might be derived from it. Stephen Tobolowsky showed a great deal of courage, and creativity, to create a movie like this. I understand why so many would turn their backs on it, because it hits so close to the truth. I only hope that we can get more movies like this one.

I caught this movie as part of a pre-release audience focus group. And this was the only time I've ever seen or heard of a mass audience walk-out on a free screening and forego the $50 focus group fee. it was THAT bad. Audience members were pushing pollsters aside on their way out, others could be seen to be writing profanities in big block letters on their questionnaires.This was one of those movies that deliberately strives to be bad through self-mockery, but it didn't even succeed at campiness. Not funny-bad, just painfully, excruciatingly, AWFUL.If these other reviews are to be believed, the movie must have been re-written, re-filmed, re-edited and re-tooled beyond recognition.

A hilarious jaunt through the lives of two complete losers, this film must not be missed. The jauntieness of it's hilarity is complete. Also, do NOT miss The Robot From Outer Space - it's excitement! it's suspense! it's excitement!What must die for the earth to live - see this film and find out!