When a film is written, produced, directed and starred in by one man, you get an idea that it may be a low budget smalltime movie. And in this case you would be right for assuming. However, there are many films that ar far from Hollywood blockbusters and yet still hold your attention throughout. The Dummy sits on the line for this one with a mix of funny and entertaining scenes as well as some pretty poorly acted ones. The acting quality ranges drastically throughout and features some actors who seem as if they might get somewhere half decent and others that seem to just be friends of the the director. The story is simpl and has been heard before in lots of films ecpecially budget ones. A guy's dummy starts to kill people. That's it. Not much else happens. You find out the doll was carved from voodoo relics but there is no more of a story than that. That wouldn't matter if the film was a particularly grusome or scry one. But it has neither of those qualitys. With too few death scenes and no suspense, this is far from a horror movie.(If you exclude the actor/director/writers/producers unGodly topless scene) Having said all that there are some good points. The bad acting makes it comical and the sets and dummy are well made. There isn't a noticable soundtrack but there is god use f supenseful music. The script is ok and it is a nice length. But overall The Dummy is a pretty average film that would be second choice to most others.
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Production Year: 2000 - Horror - Director: Keenen Ivory Wayans - Original Language: English - Classification: 18 years and over - Starring: Carmen Electra, Anna Faris, Kurt Fuller, James Van Der Beek, Keenen Ivory Wayans
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