Steve Oedekerk

Barnyard - The Original Party Animals (Widescreen Edition)

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Barnyard - The Original Party Animals (Widescreen Edition)
Starring: Scott S. Bullock , Courteney Cox Arquette , Sam Elliott , Leigh French , and Danny Glover
Director: Steve Oedekerk
Manufacturer: Paramount Pictures/Nickelodeon Movies
ProductGroup: DVD
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Open Season (Widescreen Special Edition) [Region 99]
Over the Hedge (Widescreen Edition)
Cars (Widescreen Edition)
The Ant Bully (Widescreen Edition)
Flushed Away (Widescreen Edition)

ASIN: B000ION726
Release Date: 2006-12-12

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When the farmer's back is turned, the animals party down in Barnyard. A young cow named Otis (voiced by Kevin James, The King of Queens) loves to have fun at the farm's wild late-night hoe-downs, despite the disapproval of his father, Ben (Sam Elliott, Thank You for Smoking). When Ben dies defending the barnyard from marauding coyotes, Otis is chosen as the new leader--but responsibility sits uneasily on Otis' head and he fears he may not be able to protect his friends from the coyotes. Barnyard's design of the cows seems inspired by Gary Larson's The Far Side comics; though the style is simple, the characters are surprisingly expressive. From moment to moment, the movie is reasonably entertaining. The actors--including Courteney Cox, Danny Glover, and David Koechner (Anchorman) as a very menacing coyote--do solid voice work and there are plenty of amusing gags. But as Barnyard gallops towards its end, the combination of cliches (the story is a clumsy reworking of The Lion King), odd choices (the male cows have udders), and lackluster dialogue makes the movie sag. --Bret Fetzer

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Moo-ve over, all you pretenders … here are the original party animals - the critters of Barnyard! This laugh-filled, tuneful animated adventure stars Otis (voiced by Kevin James), a carefree party cow. To the consternation of his respected father Ben (voiced by Sam Elliott), Otis is happy to spend his days singing, dancing and playing tricks on humans. But all good things must come to an end, and when Otis is suddenly forced into his father's position of responsibility, the animal antics multiply as he struggles to find the courage and talent to be a true leader. Wild, wacky and "udderly" hilarious, here's a herd of animated pranksters that'll keep you laughing out loud!

Ace Ventura Deluxe Double Feature (Pet Detective / When Nature Calls)

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Ace Ventura Deluxe Double Feature (Pet Detective / When Nature Calls)
Starring: Jim Carrey , Courteney Cox , Sean Young , Tone Loc , and Dan Marino
Director: Tom Shadyac , and Steve Oedekerk
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
ProductGroup: DVD
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Dumb and Dumber
The Mask (New Line Platinum Series)
Romancing the Stone / Jewel of the Nile
Liar Liar (Collector's Edition)
Bruce Almighty (Widescreen Edition)

ASIN: B000G1R4R0
Release Date: 2006-09-05

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The Ace Ventura Deluxe Double Feature offers both Pet Detective and When Nature Calls in anamorphic widescreen with soundtracks in Dolby 5.1 and (not indicated on the packaging) DTS. The original DVD of Pet Detective was full-screen (1.33 aspect ratio) only, though it had a scene with Ace masquerading as Hans Kissvelvet, the dolphin trainer, that was dropped from the theatrical release. The deluxe edition is missing this scene. The deluxe edition also has a third disc with three episodes (about 70 minutes total) from the 1995-96 Ace Ventura animated series with Michael Hall as the voice of Ace. --David Horiuchi

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective was the 1994 box-office hit that turned comedy maniac Jim Carrey into Hollywood's first $20-million man. This gag-filled no-brainer stars Carrey as the titular rubber-faced gumshoe who tracks down lost pets for his heartbroken clients. Ace's latest case involves the apparent kidnapping of the Miami Dolphins' team mascot, Snowflake the dolphin (natch), and his investigation is a source of constant irritation for Miami police lieutenant Lois Einhorn (Sean Young). Friends fans will appreciate the presence of Courtney Cox, who remains admirably straight-faced as the Dolphins' publicist and Ace's would-be girlfriend, but of course it's Carrey who steals the show with shameless abandon. --Jeff Shannon

In When Nature Calls, the inevitable sequel, the disappearance of a rare African white bat, draws Ace (Carrey again) out of his spiritual retreat at a Tibetan monastery following the tragic outcome of his previous case. That traumatic experience, which makes for a hilarious opening-scene send-up of the Stallone thriller Cliffhanger, prompts Ace to venture to Africa, where he goes native with the tribe that hired him to find their symbolic bat. From that point anything goes, with Carrey pushing the boundaries of good taste (what, you were expecting good taste?) up to and including his now-infamous "birth" scene from the backside of a mechanical rhinoceros. Lighten up, and don't be ashamed if you find yourself laughing. --Jeff Shannon

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Allllll righty then. Let's get to it. As Ace Ventura Pet Detective, Jim Carrey instantly soared to stardom while tearing decorum to pieces. The award-winning actor plays the screwloose sleuth determined to sniff out the Miami Dolphins' missing mascot and quarterback Dan Marino. Jim Carrey returns in Ace Ventura When Nature Calls as the alligator-wrasslin,' elephant-calling, monkeyshining, loogie-launching, burning coals-crossing, disguise-mastering pet detective. Includes a bonus DVD with specially selected cartoons from the hit TV show Ace Ventura The Animated Series. DVD Features:
Audio Commentary:Commentary by Director Tom Shadyac
TV Spot
Theatrical Trailer
TV Spot
Theatrical Trailer

Barnyard - The Original Party Animals (Full Screen Edition)

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Barnyard - The Original Party Animals (Full Screen Edition)
Starring: Scott S. Bullock , Courteney Cox Arquette , Sam Elliott , Leigh French , and Danny Glover
Director: Steve Oedekerk
Manufacturer: Paramount Pictures/Nickelodeon Movies
ProductGroup: DVD
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Open Season (Widescreen Special Edition) [Region 99]
Over the Hedge (Widescreen Edition)
Cars (Widescreen Edition)
The Ant Bully (Widescreen Edition)
Flushed Away (Widescreen Edition)

ASIN: B000ION72G
Release Date: 2006-12-12

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Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
Starring: Jim Carrey , Tommy Davidson , Maynard Eziashi , Dev Kennedy , and Michael Reid Mackay
Director: Steve Oedekerk
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
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Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
The Mask (New Line Platinum Series)
Liar Liar (Collector's Edition)
Bruce Almighty (Widescreen Edition)
Dumb and Dumber

ASIN: B000P0J06A
Release Date: 2007-05-15

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Africa's the place and Ace is on the case, setting out to rescue an animal he loathes: a bat! Jim Carrey (Batman Forever) returns as Ace, the alligator-wrasslin', elephant-calling, monkeyshining, loogie-launching, burning coals-crossing, disguise-mastering pet detective. If you're ready to laugh like a pack of hyenas, if you want more fun than an industrial-sized barrel of monkeys, you know what to do. Heed the call.

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Santa vs. the Snowman 3D
Starring: Jonathan Winters , Ben Stein , Victoria Jackson , Don LaFontaine , and Mark DeCarlo
Director: John A. Davis
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
ProductGroup: DVD
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Shrek/Shrek 3D Double Bill
Comin' At Ya!
Transitions 3D (HQFS)
Spy Kids 3 - Game Over (Two-Disc Collector's Series)
The Ultimate 3-D Collection (Haunted Castle / Alien Adventure / Encounter in the Third Dimension) (Large Format) (Includes H3D Viewing System)

ASIN: B0002IQFFE
Release Date: 2004-10-12

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The kid-friendly Santa vs. the Snowman began as a 1997 animated television special, then made a leap to the biggest movie screens--IMAX--in the world (in 3-D, no less), and now has come full circle to DVD with its extra, simulated perspective and deep focus intact. (3-D glasses, which come with the disc, are required.) An animator's lark, Santa concerns a battle between Mr. Claus and a scheming snowman who tries to overtake Santa's toy-making and Christmas Eve delivery operation. A full-scale war erupts (there are some scary images here, particularly of a snowman writhing to his fiery death), though the violence is mitigated by clever quotes from movie and animation classics, including Toy Story and the stop-motion television perennial Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town. The original 2-D geometric planes are artfully reinvented to achieve an exciting depth. --Tom Keogh

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Bat Thumb
Starring: Steve Oedekerk , Rob Paulsen , Paul Greenberg , Jim Jackman , and Mark DeCarlo
Director: David Bourla
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
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Frankenthumb
Thumb Wars - The Phantom Cuticle
The Godthumb
The Blair Thumb
Thumbtanic

ASIN: B0000687D7
Release Date: 2002-07-09

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Anyone who's a fan of Mad Magazine movie parodies will enjoy Bat Thumb, which mocks the Batman movies and original TV series by replacing the actors with thumbs. Computer effects have given these thumbs eyes and mouths but no noses; perhaps creator Steve Oedekerk doesn't think noses are funny. The masked crime-fighting thumb struggles to save Gaaathumb City from the threat of the evil No Face, while taking time out to hop in the sack with hot chicks. Elaborate models and costumes were created for Bat Thumb and the special effects are accomplished; it seems like a lot of effort to create something so silly, but that's part of the joke. If you like Bat Thumb, Oedekerk has also created similar parodies of Star Wars, Titanic, The Blair Witch Project, and other blockbusters. --Bret Fetzer

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Super hero Wuce Bane (a.k.a. Bat Thumb) and his trusty sidekick, Blue Jay, are called upon to save Gaaathumb City from the evil, despicable, and poorly dressed "No Face." Will the city survive? Will Bat Thumb's true identity be revealed? Will Vicky Nail learn to control her unruly waves? Find out the answers to all these questions in this latest comic adventure from master storyteller Steve Oedekerk (Ace Ventura, Jimmy Neutron, The Nutty Professor).

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The Blair Thumb
Starring: Megan Cavanagh , Jim Jackman , Paul Greenberg , and Steve Oedekerk
Director: Todd Portugal
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
ProductGroup: DVD
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The Godthumb
Frankenthumb
Bat Thumb
Thumbtanic
Thumb Wars - The Phantom Cuticle

ASIN: B00005TNF1
Release Date: 2002-01-22

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Lost, stupid, and really, really scared, Stressy turns the camera on herself and whimpers, "I don't know where this snot is coming from because I don't have a nose." Well no, she doesn't, because she's the star of Steve Oedekerk's surreal all-thumbs parody of The Blair Witch Project. Three camera-wielding digits get lost in the forest, fight off a shark attack in their tent ("It could have been an owl," Stressy hopefully offers), and relentlessly film every moment of their blind panic. This bizarre spoof has it all over the recent rash of parodies: it's shorter (under half an hour) and sillier, and it stars Jaws, Frankenstein's monster, and a handful of talking thumbs with squished-together eyes, run-amok eyebrows, and overactive mouths spewing nonstop nonsense. And it's pretty darn funny to boot.

The spoofing continues through the special supplements, with a mock "making of" featurette (where the thumbs blab on about coffee, motivation, and irritating butt rashes), outtakes and deleted scenes, and a thoroughly nonsensical, incomprehensible Insane commentary track to accompany the Sane (but only slightly more informative) commentary track. --Sean Axmaker

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Created by the writer of "The Nutty Professor," "Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls" and "Patch Adams," this second installment in the Thumbation series is a clever tale about three thumbs who travel into the woods to make a documentary about a local urban legend. One year later, the thumbs' video equipment is found, the footage compiled and made into a chilling movie about the terror the students encountered during their search for the truth behind The Blair Thumb.

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The Godthumb
Starring: Steve Oedekerk , and Paul Greenberg
Director: David Bourla
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
ProductGroup: DVD
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Frankenthumb
The Blair Thumb
Bat Thumb
Thumbtanic
Thumb Wars - The Phantom Cuticle

ASIN: B00006LPDS
Release Date: 2002-11-19

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Steve Oedekerk (who wrote and directed Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls) masterminds a series of movie parodies in which the actors are replaced by thumbs--more specifically, thumbs with eyes and mouths digitally superimposed. The Godthumb has a script that would be funny even if performed by normal actors (something that can't be said for all the Thumbation movies), but the bizarrely high-quality thumb effects push it to the point of surrealism. The Godthumb parodies all the high points of The Godfather (the horse head in the bed, the death of Sonny, the orange peel), but it's at its best when it spirals off into its own peculiar universe. Fans of the Thumbation flicks will not be disappointed. --Bret Fetzer

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A notorious New York mafia family rules a vast criminal empire of extortion, gambling, and murder, all led by The Godthumb. His struggle to control the underworld of crime and corruption is only offset by the "favors" he is asked from his many personal and professional "family" members. From the comic mind of Steve Oedekerk (Kung Pow: Enter the Fist, Jimmy Neutron, Ace Ventura) comes a gripping tale of true crime mixed with sensationalistic falsehoods and wrapped in vicious mobster stereotypes. Whatever you do, don't fuhgeddaboudit!

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Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
Starring: Jim Carrey , Ian McNeice , Simon Callow , Maynard Eziashi , and Bob Gunton
Director: Steve Oedekerk
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
ProductGroup: Video
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Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
Dumb and Dumber
Liar Liar (Collector's Edition)
The Cable Guy
Me, Myself & Irene

ASIN: 0790731649
Release Date: 1997-08-12

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This inevitable sequel finds Jim Carrey reprising his role as the world's greatest pet detective. His latest case, the disappearance of a rare African white bat, draws him out of his spiritual retreat at a Tibetan monastery following the tragic outcome of his previous case. That traumatic experience, which makes for a hilarious opening-scene send-up of the Stallone thriller Cliffhanger, prompts Ace to venture to Africa, where he goes native with the tribe that hired him to find their symbolic bat. From that point anything goes, with Carrey pushing the boundaries of good taste (what, you were expecting good taste?) up to and including his now-infamous "birth" scene from the backside of a mechanical rhinoceros. Lighten up, and don't be ashamed if you find yourself laughing. --Jeff Shannon

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Frankenthumb
Starring: Steve Oedekerk , S. Scott Bullock , Kristin Wolven , Jim Jackman , and Shannon Garza
Director: David Bourla
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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Bat Thumb
The Godthumb
The Blair Thumb
Thumb Wars - The Phantom Cuticle
Thumbtanic

ASIN: B00006CXGQ
Release Date: 2002-09-24

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A half-hour parody, Frankenthumb is one in a series of featurette pastiches of famous movies masterminded by Steve Oederkerk (Kung Pow: Enter the Fist) cast with human thumbs with CGI-inset mouths and eyes, a process that's more weird than funny. A précis of the 1931 Frankenstein, shot on impressive (and beautifully lit) miniature sets, the film tells the old, old story: megalomaniac Dr. Frankenthumb and his inept assistant Humpy create life in the laboratory, unleashing a monster named Pepper ("because he's brought spice into our lives") who goes on a rampage, menaces the daughter of a somewhat irritating Italian man, and is pursued by a mob into a burning windmill, whereupon a guest star from an earlier mini-epic (Bat Thumb) turns up to deliver some sort of an ending. One or two good jokes pop up, but not enough. --Kim Newman

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It's alive! Gasp at nonstop comedy in this outrageous spoof of the horror classic, direct from the mind of Steve Oedekerk (Jimmy Neutron, The Nutty Professor). Incredible stylistic detail brings you into a world of gothic laboratories, hunchbacks, and even a deceased Thumb brought back to life! Hold on to your electrodes!

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