IDLE HANDS - The Devil gives you the finger!
"IDLE HANDS" of fate. Originally published 9/20/99
They say, "Idle hands are the devil's workshop." Well if that's true then 'ol Satan was really making the wood chips fly when he created the teen-horror-comedy, "Idle Hands".
Ah the teen years! The magical time in life when boys become men. The time when their thoughts naturally turn to cars, sex, career, sex, money, sex, sex and of course HOMICIDE. Such is the plight of the teen stars of "Idle Hands".
While starring no one in particular, the film does feature the guy from the 10-10-345 commercials, fortunately he gets killed very early in the film, probably for forgetting that Jupiter and not Saturn, is the 5th planet.
Anyway it's not long before we learn that the 10-10 guy's son; Anton played by Devon Sawa, is possessed by something evil that only affects his right hand. Somehow this hand can drag Anton around forcing him to kill people and also cause him to spaz around like Jerry Lewis on acid. And speaking of acid, there's plenty of casual drug use depicted, which is always fun for the kiddies. Anyway, the evil hand causes Anton to kill his parents and two best friends, who reanimate from the dead to "hang" with their homicidal bud. There's also plenty of profanity and hip 90's teen lingo such as, "That's messed up man" and "No f...'way!" and surprisingly very little sex.
Well to make a long movie short, Anton ends up chopping off the offending member (his hand that is) for which he seeks no medical attention, yet somehow he neglects to bleed to death. The hand meanwhile continues on it's killing spree, setting it's sights on Anton's girlfriend (shades of 'The Crawling Hand'). Vivica A. Fox eventually shows up and kills the hand, the girlfriend is saved, the dead guys go to heaven, and Anton gets crushed by a car but will still end up "getting some" which is good since he lost his hand. But first he'll have to wait until the body-cast comes off.
So the moral of "Idle Hands" seems to be that, despite stacks of dead bodies, rampant use of marijuana and the deaths of close friends and family members, everybody lives happily ever after...you know, except for the dead guys...
"Idle Hands", is a "horror-comedy" with a curious lack of humor and only a general feeling of gassiness, which might possibly be confused with fear. Unless of course you find it frightening that the producers apparently thought that there was an audience out there that would find humor in mass murder and scenes of bloody gore.
So if your idea of a good time includes beheadings, stabbings, dismemberment, lots of drug references, profanity, and a plot that insults your intelligence from start to finish, then "Idle Hands" is the film for you!
They say, "Idle hands are the devil's workshop." Well if that's true then 'ol Satan was really making the wood chips fly when he created the teen-horror-comedy, "Idle Hands".
Ah the teen years! The magical time in life when boys become men. The time when their thoughts naturally turn to cars, sex, career, sex, money, sex, sex and of course HOMICIDE. Such is the plight of the teen stars of "Idle Hands".
While starring no one in particular, the film does feature the guy from the 10-10-345 commercials, fortunately he gets killed very early in the film, probably for forgetting that Jupiter and not Saturn, is the 5th planet.
Anyway it's not long before we learn that the 10-10 guy's son; Anton played by Devon Sawa, is possessed by something evil that only affects his right hand. Somehow this hand can drag Anton around forcing him to kill people and also cause him to spaz around like Jerry Lewis on acid. And speaking of acid, there's plenty of casual drug use depicted, which is always fun for the kiddies. Anyway, the evil hand causes Anton to kill his parents and two best friends, who reanimate from the dead to "hang" with their homicidal bud. There's also plenty of profanity and hip 90's teen lingo such as, "That's messed up man" and "No f...'way!" and surprisingly very little sex.
Well to make a long movie short, Anton ends up chopping off the offending member (his hand that is) for which he seeks no medical attention, yet somehow he neglects to bleed to death. The hand meanwhile continues on it's killing spree, setting it's sights on Anton's girlfriend (shades of 'The Crawling Hand'). Vivica A. Fox eventually shows up and kills the hand, the girlfriend is saved, the dead guys go to heaven, and Anton gets crushed by a car but will still end up "getting some" which is good since he lost his hand. But first he'll have to wait until the body-cast comes off.
So the moral of "Idle Hands" seems to be that, despite stacks of dead bodies, rampant use of marijuana and the deaths of close friends and family members, everybody lives happily ever after...you know, except for the dead guys...
"Idle Hands", is a "horror-comedy" with a curious lack of humor and only a general feeling of gassiness, which might possibly be confused with fear. Unless of course you find it frightening that the producers apparently thought that there was an audience out there that would find humor in mass murder and scenes of bloody gore.
So if your idea of a good time includes beheadings, stabbings, dismemberment, lots of drug references, profanity, and a plot that insults your intelligence from start to finish, then "Idle Hands" is the film for you!
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