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Movie Overview
Cast
• Amy Sedaris
• Stephen Colbert
• Paul Dinello
Director
• Paul Dinello
MPAA Rating
R - for sexual content, language and some drug material.
Strangers With Candy (2006)

REVIEWS
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OFCS Rating: 67% Fresh
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"[R]eplicate[s] in a raunchy cartoon how the chaos of our experience correlates more than we may care to admit to the chaos of our personalities."  Blogcritics.org  Alan Dale

6/10
"I've got something to say!!! While the occasionally hilarious big-screen Candy should amuse hardcore fans, it may leave casual audiences confused or disappointed."  Freeze Dried Movies  Brian Juergens

C-
"... for the most part is not particularly funny."  Ozus' World Movie Reviews  Dennis Schwartz

2.5/4
"Flaws and all, Strangers with Candy has one invaluable thing going for it: the utterly fearless and downright brilliant comic performance of Amy Sedaris."  TheMovieBoy.com  Dustin Putman

3/4
"Easily the most quotable movie of the year."  Slant Magazine  Ed Gonzalez

B-
"Certainly the first 30 minutes of this film are among the most hilarious first 30 minutes of any film. Pity it couldn't last."  EricDSnider.com  Eric D. Snider

"What separates Strangers with Candy from other high school comedies, or from most mainstream comedies in general, is the cast's total dedication to their parts."  DVD Review  Felix Gonzalez Jr.

C-
"To the uninitiated likely to be...one of those supposedly hip movies that you'll probably leave with a distinctly sour taste in your mouth."  One Guy's Opinion  Frank Swietek

"At its best, an episode of the series felt like an hour's worth of comedy crammed into 22 minutes, while the movie feels more like an hour's worth of comedy stretched out to feature length."  Pajiba  Jeremy C. Fox

2.5/4
"In spite of its demented flavor, the movie surprisingly doesn't push the envelope the way the series did."  Mark Reviews Movies  Mark Dujsik

"[T]here's demented, and then there's the plain sick and twisted tastlessness and hilarious audacity of this afterschool special gone horribly, wonderfully wrong."  Flick Filosopher  MaryAnn Johanson

3.5/5
"Despite its faithfulness and frequent funniness, Jerri's big-screen (mis)adventure never provides more laughs than one of Comedy Central's TV-on-DVD compilations."  Filmcritic.com  Nick Schager

B
"It roars along with reckless abandon, skewering everything in its path."  Laramie Movie Scope  Robert Roten

D
"I would rather be abandoned in the fiery [heat] of Death Valley than be subjected to Strangers with Candy again, even in an air-conditioned theater!"  Reeling Reviews  Robin Clifford

7/10
"Completely over the top and proud of it."  Monsters and Critics  Ron Wilkinson

B-
"Amy Sedaris is a dementedly funny horror as Jerri Blank (in) the aggressively politically incorrect prequel to the cult Comedy Central series."  Seattle Post-Intelligencer  Sean Axmaker

3/4
"Walks a fine line of comedic self-awareness, and only on occasion loses us in a haze of condescending wit."  Charlotte Weekly  Sean O'Connell

"Click here to see review"  Wolf Entertainment Guide  William Wolf
OFCS Rating: 67% Fresh
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