The Burbs (The 'Burbs) (1989)

Posted : 2 years, 6 months ago at May 4 12:33

Watching this movie for the first time on DVD (have seen it before, many times), I was reminded of how much I loved watching the old Tom Hanks comedies---you know, all those movies he did BEFORE he started doing all the Oscar-worthy movies. This is an entertaining movie from start to finish. Some of the residents of a suburban area start to wonder about a strange family no one has met in the month they have been living in the neighbourhood, and when an elderly neighbour disappears, the paranoid ideas start flying. Meeting the strange neighbours---who truly are strange---doesn't help matters. Instead, Tom Hanks and two of his neighbours end up with a plan to find "evidence" that the Klopeks killed the old man. I love this movie, and could watch it time and time again. It is a qu...Read more

Rating : 6/10

Posted : 3 years, 1 month ago at Oct 13 20:40

"Nobody knocks off an old man in my neighborhood and gets away with it." Such are the ramblings of paranoid suburban Ray Peterson (Tom Hanks) and the team of surrounding neighbors who plot to uncover the truth that the reclusive Klopek family killed a fellow neighbor. It is not only the comedy that surrounds the character development of Tom Hanks from suburban boredom to suburban paranoid, it is the quotable dialogue that allows me to watch this cult classic over and over again. "Remember what you were saying about people in the 'burbs, Art, people like Skip, people who mow their lawn for the 800th time, and then SNAP? WELL, THAT'S US. IT'S NOT THEM, THAT'S US. WE'RE the ones who are vaulting over the fences, and peeking in through people's windows. We're the ones who are THROWING GARBAGE ...Read more

Rating : 10/10

Posted : 3 years, 1 month ago at Oct 13 20:40

"Nobody knocks off an old man in my neighborhood and gets away with it." Such are the ramblings of paranoid suburban Ray Peterson (Tom Hanks) and the team of surrounding neighbors who plot to uncover the truth that the reclusive Klopek family killed a fellow neighbor. It is not only the comedy that surrounds the character development of Tom Hanks from suburban boredom to suburban paranoid, it is the quotable dialogue that allows me to watch this cult classic over and over again. "Remember what you were saying about people in the 'burbs, Art, people like Skip, people who mow their lawn for the 800th time, and then SNAP? WELL, THAT'S US. IT'S NOT THEM, THAT'S US. WE'RE the ones who are vaulting over the fences, and peeking in through people's windows. We're the ones who are THROWING GARBAGE ...Read more

Rating : 10/10