Sleeper

A futuristic comedy from Woody Allen in 1973 has him waking up from an operation 200 years later (in 2173) to find society has gone berserk.Clever, witty, and very funny. Allen is hysterically funny as the "sleeper" who gets to... Full review

This is one of Woody Allen's best works. It is creative and imaginative and well thought out. I love the twist of what science found to be health and the VW bug that started after 200 years. Classic... A real DVD... Full review

You must have seen this - it may be the ALL-TIME funniest movie ever made. A complete riot start to finish, on par with mel brooks's films, and the jerk with steve martin.... Full review

like usual, woody allen does a wonderful job at hiding the social comentary in his comedies. this is one of my favorites by him: I love how he combines the slap-stick nature of silent comedy with an interesting "1984"-style story.... Full review

Another great Woody movie. He is so funny in this and this is a strange funny movie, unlike most of his others. I think all Woody fans should watch this movie.... Full review

Very strange but very good. This is one of my favorite 5 Woody Allen movies. It is really original compared to his other movies.... Full review

Woody Allen's previous efforts, BANANAS and TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN, were exceptionally funny but very uneven films. His being a bit of an amateur in the film business is pretty obvious in these movies. However, by the time he... Full review

We are blessed that Woody was around, making movies as interesting as this when he was.Already with this one, he began his vast exploration of movie techniques and devices that would last 25 years or so.The idea is simple in... Full review

You cannot afford to miss this film. This is so ridiculously funny you just have to own it. The jokes never stop and a fairly know cast to boot. SEE IT!... Full review

In this early comedy, Woody Allen plays Miles Monroe, a twentieth century healthfood restaurant owner and jazz clarinettist who is cryogenically frozen after surgery and awoken two centuries later. The America of 2173 is a totalitarian state ruled by an oppressive... Full review

However, every ten minutes or so, the film manages to pull off some pretty neat special effects, and the whole film positively swims with mod 60's atmosphere. However, the Italians usually counteract those flaws with three virtues: amazing musical scores, gorgeous visuals, and a willingness to catapult themselves over any line of sanity and taste that might be encountered in filmmaking (something they have in common with Hong Kong filmmakers). ... Full Review

Sleeper is the best of them.....Watch out for a prophetic vision of GM foods and listen out for the wonderful score..... ... Full Review

It is the same pathetic no-hoper turned reluctant hero story of several other Woody Allen movies, and in this respect is pretty much the same as the other film in our double bill - Sleeper - only set in the past rather than the future. ... Full Review

A film review by Christopher Null - Copyright © 2005 Filmcritic.com Pound for pound and minute for minute, Sleeper may just have more laughs in it than any other Woody Allen movie. There's a plot involving the overthrow of a totalitarian regime -- but hey, this place doesn't look too bad to me -- but mostly this is a hysterical platform for Allen to poke fun at the sexual revolution of the '70s by forecasting it to its absurd and illogical conclusion. ... Full Review

The film's slapstick moments outshine its dialogue....Now pour the whole shebang onto celluloid and you have Sleeper , Woody Allen's oddball mix of silent movie madness and futuristic paranoia.....A light-hearted, out-of-this-world tribute to the silent movie, with some big laughs.... ... Full Review

Published: December 26 2008 12:05 | Last updated: December 26 2008 12:05 F or Rip Van Winkle, 20 years. For Woody Allen's character in the 1973 film Sleeper , 200 years. ... Full Article

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From the very beginning, mainstream movies have often been set in a future world that exhibits many of the ills found in the contemporary. This allows the film to adopt a critical stance but without risking a confrontation with the... ... Full Article

THE headlines about food this year read like a remarkable replay of Woody Allen 's "Sleeper," in which the things Americans think they should eat more of - lettuce and spinach - were suddenly the ones that could make them... ... Full Article

With a name like Cannibal Corpse and songs titled "Edible Autopsy," "Scattered Remains, Splattered Brains," and "A Skull Full Of Maggots" (among others), you'd better bring it on the album cover. ... Full Article