The Grand

THIS IS THE BEST MOVIE YOU WILL EVER SEE IF YOU LOVE POKER .....AND JUST A GREAT MOVIE IN GENERAL ALL STAR CAST ALL AMAZINGGGGGGGGGGGGG... Full review

If you loved Best in Show, A Mighty Wind, This is Spinal Tap, Incident at Loch Ness, then you will love this one. Oh yeah, if you are even slightly familiar with Poker or Poker on TV, it will make you... Full review

Laughed at loud at certain times. Dry, cutting humor. Not for everyone. Enjoyed and would recommend it, would watch again.... Full review

If you liked the movie Best in Show and you enjoy playing poker or watching poker on TV, then you'll enjoy this movie. It's a mockumetary that is aimed at making fun of the poker world - and it does a... Full review

This movie is a douche. The ad campaign alone is without a doubt the most obnoxiously pointless and gratingly irritating I have ever witnessed for any product/movie/album in my life. The ridiculously reproducing bands of a poorly designed banner repeating over... Full review

Oh my god Ive been waiting since March 21st to go and see this movie and its not playing anywhere???? Not New York, Not Los Angeles, nowhere????? This looks funnier than any other movie currently in theatres and its nowhere to... Full review

I went with a group of 5 friends and we all laughed throughout the entire movie. In fact, the entire audience were laughing with us. I can't wait to buy the DVD. this has to be great to watch at home.... Full review

The Douche Bag that wrote the last reveiw has not even seen the movie so I would ignore his review. I have not seen the movie either so this is a review of the review.... Full review

gods don't lie. this movie will be great. better than 21! why this movie was not put into wide release right away just amazes me. hollywood types do too much coke i guess. they have no idea what americans want to... Full review

this movie is a shot across the bow at how fast the "sport" of poker has turned into something so grand that millions watch and thousands take part in. Nothing is sacred here, the director pokes fun at Internet players and... Full review

What separates Guest's winners from "The Grand" is his respect for the reality from which the humor flows--the human quirks to be found in the folk music or dog show scenes. Penn says he cast Herzog because he's "tremendously funny. ... Full Review

James Rocchi declared it "a great movie ... DVD features are generous, including an audio commentary with the directors, deleted scenes, a short film, and six "making of"-type things. ... Full Review

Despite occasional lapses into unneeded melodrama, the film is a well acted excursion into the challenges of coming home. Harrelson's aimless, self-indulgent ramblings never amount to much, but luckily, the other participants in "The Grand" all are funny and distinctive. ... Full Review

Wildly uneven but often quite funny, "The Grand" allows its actors to act out, get the "E! But just showing us what ex-sitcom stars and imperious Bavarian directors do in their spare time isn't quite enough to justify "The Grand," which does for poker what "Best in Show" did for dogs while completely avoiding any jokes about poker-playing canines. ... Full Review

The Grand is an experiment in mockumentary filmmaking, wholeheartedly embracing a genre that can be either brilliantly funny or depressingly tedious all depending on execution. Zak Penn and co-writer Matt Biermans film has flashes of the former but too often veers into the latter with pointless in-jokes and silly digressions that distract from the good-natured skewering of televised poker championships The Grand proposes to be. ... Full Review

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(B-) The year's big dramatic gambling hit, 21, is all plot, no personality; The Grand, a comedy that follows six contenders into the finals of a poker tournament, is all personality, no plot. ... Full Article

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