Stometer Save your money for something good and enjoyable
Lachlan Coulson This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.
Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.
Cristal The movie really just wants to entertain people.
Scott_Mercer This is more in the vein of the Coen Brothers than the Zucker Brothers really, or at least their comedies. "Quirky" is the watchword here. Bits of the Hudsucker Proxy (other than the similarities in the name) and Raising Arizona, with the jaundiced eye of the outsider looking in on a white-bread culture that died a merciful death. Jeff Daniels stars as Fred Barlow, the psychotically devoted leader of a vacuum cleaner distributorship who's behind the 8-ball to sell more product. He comes upon an insightful innovation that helps him rise to the top once more. Lots of goof ball action by dorky Midwestern white people in the out-of-place, out-of-time milieu of the fictional Johnson City, where two teams of vacuum cleaner salespeople vie to take over the territory. Mock melodramatic speeches, inappropriate stirring music cues, and gang fights between vacuum cleaner salesmen. The characters seem plucked from a 1950's sitcom, even though the setting is supposedly present day. Do they even sell vacuum cleaners door-to-door anymore? Gotta love Jeff Daniels' sharkskin suit. Overall, quite amusing if it's on cable, but I wouldn't go out of my way to find it.Jeff Daniels directed this, and I think he did a swell job, gosh darn it! Sy Suckerton would be proud as punch!Fred Barlow: "Did I ever have sex with your mother? No? Too bad, you would have made a hell of an illegitimate son."
christopher greenwell I'm thrilled to see that premium movie channels are adding quality titles to their regular rotation. Super Suckers is an excellent example.Previous comments/reviews have adequately described the plot and style of the movie, but have failed to point out the satire that soaks both. Jeff Daniels had never occurred to me as a writer, let alone one who understands how to combine valued social comment with hilarious one liners and shtick humor. I look forward to watching his other projects. One and a half stars only confirms the difference in taste of the maps and myself. It has become only too easy to find examples of highly rated movies that suck badly, this is definitely one that sucks very well.
oarch This was so unfunny words can't describe it. Why Jeff Daniels agreed to act in this loser, I have no idea. I watched about 45 minutes of it, and only because I rented it myself and did not want to offend friends by taking it out after 5 minutes. Now I have to rent 4-5 masterpieces to make up for the bad taste.Avoid at all costs.
bluzman Which is a compliment, if you've seen it. Its plot is puerile in nature and a base in concept, which will offend the gentle viewer. However, for those who are comfortable enough deal with the nature of the show will find themselves wanting to roll on the floor laughing.I am particularly delighted how they put the fifties vacuum salesman into today's world, but gave the movie a fifties look and feel. The lighting, styling and many of the mannerisms of the characters had you jumping back and forth between the eras.This movie, like Escanaba in Da Moonlight, had the strong sense of having been a play. Many of the stagings and acting parts jumped out and said this is a play stage scenario.Go see this movie and enjoy it. Don't let your insecurity chase you away.
