Pauly Shore Is Dead (2003)
Hollywood comedian/actor Pauly Shore loses everything: his house, nobody in Hollywood wants to represent him, he moves back home with his mom and is now parking cars at the Comedy Store. Then one night when he's up in his mom's loft, a dead famous comedian appears who tells Pauly to kill himself cause he'll go down as a comedic genius who died before his time. Pauly then fakes his own death, and the media goes crazy.
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"Pauly Shore is dead" is a mockumentary around the former MTV reporter Pauly Shore who, in this movie, fakes his death to win over all the reputation that he was denied so far. When people learn that he's still alive, Pauly has a hard time dealing with the consequences.The film is not really great in itself. It includes a lot of cheap jokes, stereotypes and not so intelligent humor. On the other hand, sometimes it is able to collect some laughs and it sure shows that Pauly Shore is able to laugh about himself and knows his place in the entertainment world of Hollywood. It is, furthermore, impressive, how many celebrities seem to have agreed to be a part of this movie. The least you can say is that this title doesn't get boring throughout its playtime and lights a firework of gags of very heterogenic quality.All in all this is nothing you have to see but it's also not a catastrophe. For fans of simple humor or Pauly Shore this could be a nice one, for others it is still more or less okay.
First, this movie isn't supposed to be an Oscar contender. Second, it's still a Pauly Shore movie, even if it's not like any other Pauly Shore movie. I really think the negative reviews of this movie were from people putting it on a pedestal before even watching it, expecting it to be extremely artsy, a biting satire on Hollywood or whatever other pretentious reasons they could come up with to hate the movie when it failed to play out like their fantasy they came up with simply by looking at the box and title.It's not a bad movie. It's not a great movie, but it's got plenty of humor in it, both clever Hollywood in-jokes (with lots of celebrities making fun of themselves along with Pauly) and simple toilet humor. I really think all the 'film school dropouts' need to sit back and enjoy the movie for what it is, not for what it isn't. It's a Pauly Shore movie that doesn't play like a typical Pauly Shore movie, nothing more nothing less. And if you didn't like other Pauly Shore movies, you should at least still give it a shot because of this. Just don't expect it cure cancer or feed hungry children. It's still a Pauly Shore movie.
The screenplay, if one can call this one note monstrosity that, was written by Shore and some guy named Kirk Fox, yet it all smacks of being a vanity project, laced with bad one liners where the B listers try to recall who Shore was, after his 'death', then rail against him when exposed. You know you're film is in trouble when a supposedly funny scripted line by Chris Rock, 'No Pauly. {blank} you. Stay dead,' turns out to be the most genuine reaction to this film. My only consolation is that the DVD was cheap and this review will hopefully deter any other potential viewers from lining Shore's pockets. You have to take small victories wherever you can get them, sometimes.
All I know is I watch a lot of television.That movie was as real as it gets,I love those type of movies when Hollywood can goof on their own group of people . Awesome job this time Pauly. Of course the cast too. It was all good.At 44 yrs. old with a freshman Daughter and a senior Son ready to graduate college. I feel I have a good pulse on what youngsters like. To bad the real talent isn't taken to the top rung. Keep up the awesome work Pauly.Of course You don't let the big guys influence you, which for anyone is an Admiral trait for a Man in Hollywood it's more than that, I only wish I had the ability to do the craft as well.You have a natural skill to be Yourself too, the true movie lovers will always need Guys like You to keep it Real!Sincerely Tom McClure