Blast From The Past [DVD]

Great film. Very funny. Family friendly filled with great stars. Watched it again and again.

I thought this film was really excellent. The story had me glued from the beginning but anyone buying this film, please be aware that there aren't any English subtitles, even though it says English on the subtitles, they are foreign, so I just turned them off.

Blast from the Past is directed by Hugh Wilson who also co-writes the screenplay with Bill Kelly. It stars Brendan Fraser, Alicia Silverstone, Christopher Walken, Sissy Spacek and Dave Foley. Music is by Steve Dorff and cinematography by Jose Luis Alcaine. Plot has Fraser as a 35 year old man who after being raised by his parents in a nuclear fallout shelter, surfaces to sample American life in the 1990s. A different spin on the fish-out-of-water premise, Blast from the Past in a gentle romantic comedy that although light and breezy, does show how society has vastly changed over a three and half decade period, happily tinting the edges with satire as the central couple, Fraser and Silverstone, yes they be called Adam and Eve, engage in way that perfectly befits the airy nature of the story. They make for a perfect "opposites attract" couple, he is all about 50s and 60s values such as good manners and positivity, she is street smart, cynical and knowingly trampish. It makes for good honest fun, as they inevitably get into strange situations because no one is quite sure how to take Adam. As he ambles along devoid of fear and loving the first sightings of things that many take for granted (the sky, the sea etc), it has a charm factor that is hard to dismiss. But the Adam and Eve coupling, and the presence of Eve's gay roommate (Foley excellent), only brings smiles instead of laughs, the bulk of the chuckles come from Walken and Spacek as Adam's nuclear age parents down in the shelter. He is an eccentric scientist, seemingly happy to forever stay in the magnificent shelter he built, she is apple pie homely but starting to get stir crazy and hitting the cooking sherry by way of coping! Once Adam goes above ground (after half hour of smart character build up in the shelter), and the film then focuses on the Adam and Eve axis, you may find yourself hankering after a bit more of Walken and Spacek, both of whom give performances to savour. The film has no great surprises, and we sure as heck fire know where it's going, but the journey engages without clamouring for sentiment and the on form cast hold the attention throughout. 7/10

Can't go wrong with a cast as top-notch as this, with super script, steady pacing, romance, originality, and fine moments. Deserves a better place in the pantheon of comedies.

This is of course an excellent film with an impressive cast. So why the title, and low score? Key scenes were left out.: missing. In addition other scenes were badly edited removing the joke element. Such as Eve being from the former Soviet Union, the microwave scene et cetera.

Ridiculously cheesy but loved it years ago, definitely worth a watch if you like cheesy American films, not nessicerally a good film but I still love it lol

I LOVE this film!!! One of my favourite films now! Brendan Fraser is brilliant in it and all the other actors are great. It is about a boy who grows up in an underground bunker because his parents thought that a bomb had devastated the world. He comes out of the bunker about 20 years later to a world that is totally different to before. He is so naive in it. Highly recommended. Very funny.

Old school fun film, what’s not to like

Watch it only if you are a Brendan Fraser or Alicia Silverstone fan. I watched it with my friends and they all got bored with it.

A view of a period in our history surrounded by fear and paranoia concerning the nuclear holocaust that was coming from Cuba circa 1962. This wonderful glimpse of the early 1960s mentality served up by Christopher Walken as the ever positive (yet prepared for the coming apocalypse) husband and father, along with Sissy Spacek's perfect mother, makes this romp a joy to watch. Brendan Fraser as the "spitting image" positive thinking, Perry Como loving, son makes a perfect entrance into modern day society after growing up in a bomb shelter. His innocent, loving approach to everything he sees makes a good movie and script even more enjoyable. Alicia Silverstone gives one of her best performances in film (along with the movie Crush, which introduced her). Her "seasoned" woman of the world approach offsets Fraser's boy man perfectly. The tone is perfect, and the performances are a delight. Look for a wonderful dance to Mr. Zoot Suit. If you don't love this movie, you don't like movies period.

Diesen Film sollten sich einige Personen heutzutage mal anschauen und auch zu Herzen nehmen... Leider sind wir etwas von diesem alten Verhalten abgedriftet. Nichtsdestotrotz ist dies ein wirklich unterhaltsamer Film! Mit Humor und Herz! Ich versuche die Rezension ohne großen Spoiler zu erstellen, aber das Setting des Films sorgt schon für einen guten Start und großes Potential!

Très bon film à voir en famille. Les enfants ont beaucoup aimé et bien rit!

alles bestens. super film