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Jedi_Jettson_21

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Note: This is about Sam Raimi's Director's Cut

You should see the straight-to-dvd Director's cut version. It has more violence and action. It is a great movie directors cut from Sam Raimi

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Posted feb 27, 2009 10:29 am pt

Jedi_Jettson_21

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Note: This is about the Director's Cut
You should see the straight-to-dvd Director's cut version. It has more violence and action. It is a great movie directors cut from Sam Raimi (And sorry I accidently posted another review)

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Posted feb 27, 2009 10:28 am pt

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In this follow-up to Evil Dead II: Dead by Dawn we are reunited with Ash Williams who this time around gives us plenty of "Three Stooge"-style belly laughs. The acting was very good but there was a heavy lack of chemistry between Ash...
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In this follow-up to Evil Dead II: Dead by Dawn we are reunited with Ash Williams who this time around gives us plenty of "Three Stooge"-style belly laughs. The acting was very good but there was a heavy lack of chemistry between Ash and his love interest, Sheila. Nothing really made me care about their relationship. Overall, it's a funny film. See it.

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Posted nov 18, 2008 1:50 pm pt

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In this follow-up to Evil Dead II: Dead by Dawn we are reunited with Ash Williams who this time around gives us plenty of "Three Stooge"-style belly laughs. The acting was very good but there was a heavy lack of chemistry between Ash...
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In this follow-up to Evil Dead II: Dead by Dawn we are reunited with Ash Williams who this time around gives us plenty of "Three Stooge"-style belly laughs. The acting was very good but there was a heavy lack of chemistry between Ash and his love interest, Sheila. Nothing really made me care about their relationship. Overall, it's a funny film. See it.

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Posted nov 18, 2008 1:50 pm pt

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Not my favorite of the Evil Dead movies (Evil Dead 2 gets that credit), but the one where Ash pulls out all the stops and becomes the one-liner slinging, chainsaw-for-a-hand (though he replaces the chainsaw halfway for a weird mechanical hand),...
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Not my favorite of the Evil Dead movies (Evil Dead 2 gets that credit), but the one where Ash pulls out all the stops and becomes the one-liner slinging, chainsaw-for-a-hand (though he replaces the chainsaw halfway for a weird mechanical hand), shotgun toting, no-holds-bar kinda guy we all know & love. Lots of memorable scenes too.

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Posted nov 13, 2008 10:48 am pt

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I thought this film was the best out of all 3. The comedy,horror,and action made this movie a nice edition to the evil dead franchise.

I also liked how they had sequels of this including "army of darkness vs. re-animator"...
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I thought this film was the best out of all 3. The comedy,horror,and action made this movie a nice edition to the evil dead franchise.

I also liked how they had sequels of this including "army of darkness vs. re-animator" and ash's girlfriend shiela returns and evil ash returns in the forbidden dimension that Ash is trapped in.

I liked how Ash defeated Evil Ash as well and the ending was cool. The movie ended with a great quote "Hail to the King Baby!".

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Posted oct 13, 2008 7:37 am pt

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this film was made in a time before cgi was so popular and for that resson the affects look awsome because pupets are just so mutch cooler.
it may not be gorey compared to other films but the comedy is still really funny.

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Posted may 21, 2008 2:57 am pt

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Horror/Comedy at its best. This movie is a definite cult-classic.

It is over-dramatic, surreal, and witty. Ash (Bruce Campbell) is pretty much a non-stop one-liner machine. I could not stop laughing throughout the entire movie.
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Horror/Comedy at its best. This movie is a definite cult-classic.

It is over-dramatic, surreal, and witty. Ash (Bruce Campbell) is pretty much a non-stop one-liner machine. I could not stop laughing throughout the entire movie.

I wouldn't call it scary at all but it is definitely entertaining and has the ability to draw you in throughout the entire film. It continues on with its bizarre themes of madness and slapstick gore.

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Posted may 5, 2008 6:54 am pt

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Fantastic horror comedy, part 3 to the evil dead movies, has a cool mix of horror and comedy lighter than the first two but just as good. this is a great film well worth watching and the two diffrent endings are great aswell.

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Posted jan 3, 2008 8:40 am pt

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Personally I think this movie is the best out of the evil dead triolgy. This film blends action & comedy quite nicely. the climax in my opinion was a bit disappointing but all in all this is the best of the series

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Posted nov 4, 2007 11:54 am pt

• [+] Washington Post
  
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  Raimi offers all the fantasy, camp and hardcore horror you devoured in the comics. You can feel the pen-and-ink drawings coming to life. Dipping wittily into myth, the macabre and the modern, it's an effervescent adventure that's as amusing as it is genuinely gripping. [19 Feb 1993, Weekend, p.n38]

  by Desson Thomson | Read Full Review »
• [+] Los Angeles Times
  
  80
  Ash's dialogue keeps the movie just goofy enough that even audiences that don't go in for schlock-horror phantasmagorias will be tickled. [19 Feb 1993, Calender, p.F-8]

  by Peter Rainer | Read Full Review »
• [+] Washington Post
  
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  Few American directors would dare to show as much over-the-top glee in their chosen craft as Sam Raimi does in Army of Darkness. [19 Feb 1993, Style, p.c7]

  by Richard Harrington | Read Full Review »
• [+] ReelViews
  
  75
  No matter what your opinion is of the movie, you're unlikely to be bored.

  by James Berardinelli | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Tribune
  
  75
  Much of the movie's charm, in fact, is derived from its sense of its own instant disposability. Raimi has created the cinematic equivalent of fast food-efficient, unassuming and seriously regressive. It may not be much good for you in the end, but consuming it is loads of fun. [19 Feb 1993, Friday, p.C]

  by Dave Kehr | Read Full Review »
• [+] Film Threat
  
  70
  Easily the most unique film in the trilogy, and in many ways the most fun.

  by Jeremy Zoss | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Reader
  
  60
  Enjoyably campy hokum.

  by Jonathan Rosenbaum | Read Full Review »
• [+] Empire
  
  60
  As a film in its own right, this quirky Ray Harryhausen tribute (a skeleton army!) rocks. As an Evil Dead film, though, it’s ultimately not funny, scary or gory enough.

  by Chris Hewitt | Read Full Review »
• [+] Variety
  
  60
  Blending almost nonstop violence with humorous parody, Sam Raimi's latest excursion into horror-kitsch seems more like an irreverent "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court."

  by Staff (Not Credited) | Read Full Review »
• [+] Entertainment Weekly
  
  58
  By the time Army of Darkness turns into a retread of "Jason and the Argonauts," featuring an army of fighting skeletons, the film has fallen into a ditch between parody and spectacle.

  by Owen Gleiberman | Read Full Review »
• [+] Christian Science Monitor
  
  50
  Fans of ultraviolent sword-and-sorcery nonsense will have a good time; others will head for the exit. [19 Feb 1993, Arts, p.10]

  by David Sterritt | Read Full Review »
• [+] The New York Times
  
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  Army of Darkness would appeal to small children if it were not also too gruesome for them, since Ash does after all wield a chain saw. [19 Feb 1993, p.C10]

  by Elvis Mitchell | Read Full Review »
• [+] TV Guide
  
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  Raimi is a master at pacing this kind of material, however, and never allows it to become redundant.

  by Michael Gingold | Read Full Review »
• [+] San Francisco Chronicle
  
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  Army of Darkness has good moments and shows traces of wit right up to the end, though these moments wind up coming fewer and farther between. [19 Feb 1993, Daily Datebook, p.D1]

  by Mick LaSalle | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Sun-Times
  
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  The movie isn't as funny or entertaining as "Evil Dead II," however, maybe because the comic approach seems recycled.

  by Roger Ebert | Read Full Review »