#mixed nuts

[clawsoutspotsoff]

Happy crimbo, throwback to that time we were talking about holiday movies and this happened

but then it was that Felix

(I have not seen the movie)

[personinthepalace]

Mixed Nuts - Spy x Family Musical

a video edit of some of my favorite sxf musical moments - hope you enjoy it :)

[dozydawn]

[dr-bengay]

This is how I feel after looking at reviews of some of my favorite movies and seeing that it's very widely hated

[schreibvibe]

Liev Schreiber in Mixed Nuts (1994)

[dolphelecat]

Mixed Nuts - SPY×FAMILY OP [Piano] / Official Hige Dandism

[melikesyoucomics]

I recently made a bunch of tiny replicas to fill these decoy cans with, it took forever and I love these little treasures.

[jar-of-rocks]

in honor of all you adam sandler fucks who somehow pull goth baddies, here's adam sandler pulling a goth baddie

[marauderstiltheend]

Spy x Family OP - Mixed Nuts by Official Hige Dandism Live in Concert

WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW

Love love love love love the band.

Love love love love love their performance.

I miss Spy x Family.

[smackdownhotel]

Today’s yogurt

PB&J Royal nut medley

[adamwatchesmovies]

Mixed Nuts (1994)

Remakes are rarely what they should be. In theory, what you should do is take a movie that’s either bad or almost but not quite there and try it again, taking the opportunity to fix the blemishes. In execution, we most often get something akin to "cloned with damaged DNA”. I haven’t seen Le père Noël est une ordure so I’m assuming Mixed Nuts is the latter because it shows promise and then builds to an ending so lame and lazy it sours the rest of the film.

In California, on Christmas Eve, Philip (Steve Martin) is the head of the suicide-prevention hotline “Lifesavers”. The organization is about to shut down thanks to the eviction notice from the landlord, Stanley (Garry Shandling). On what is sure to be Lifesavers’ last day, Philip and his co-workers Mrs. Blanche Munchnik (Madeline Kahn) & Catherine O’Shaughnessy (Rita Wilson) will have to deal with a trailer-trash couple, an annoying neighbor that loves to make up bad songs (Adam Sandler), a depressed transvestite (Liev Schreiber), angry rollerbladers (Parkey Posey and Jon Stewart) and the “Seaside Strangler”.

Directed by Nora Ephron (which she co-wrote with her sister, Delia), a fair number of jokes land - particularly if you’ve got an off-kilter sense of humor. All of the characters are so neurotic that a normal, everyday scenario would end up with tears, outrage and a gun being fired. On Christmas Eve, at a suicide-prevention hotline, in a building whose elevator is out of commission and whose tenants are all being evicted, with a serial killer on the loose, the question is how big of a mess this will become and how the weirdos will fit together. Despite all this, I swear Mixed Nuts isn’t as ridiculous as it initially sounds.

I probably shouldn’t have enjoyed the film as much as I did and I must confess that thinking back, I can only think of a few times it made me laugh. The most noteworthy element of the film is Liev Schreiber in his film debut. His character is over-the-top like there’s no tomorrow but the performance is surprisingly sensitive when the jokes simmer down. Also enjoyable are key interactions between Catherine and her callers. She’s so empathetic towards them it’s a wonder she can do her job. While this raises some questions about how the operation could’ve possibly worked and requires you to find the humor in suicidal thoughts, it just might be bizarre enough to make you smile.

The ridiculous feels-like-they’re-improptu-but-they-actually-aren’t songs courtesy of Adam Sandler’s character (who speaks in the same annoying childlike voice he chooses when he isn’t playing a fantasy version of himself), the various neuroses and escalation lunacy manage to rack up enough points for you to like the film. You're having a good time, wondering why people are so down on Mixed Nuts. Then, we get to the final act. The conclusion doesn’t come out of nowhere but that's only because someone went back once the script was finished and added hints of what was coming retroactively. It starts by making you cringe, then keeps getting worse until you’re sitting there, wondering “Did I somehow convince myself I was having fun earlier, or was the whole movie like what I'm seeing now?”.

There are a lot of big names in Mixed Nuts and they should’ve added up to a Yuletide comedy for the ages. It doesn’t live up to its potential. In fact, I’m now in the position of trying to defend a movie that I’m not even sure I enjoyed that much in hindsight. I thought of concluding this review with "Mixed Nuts is a mixed bag" but I'm filled with such doubt about the end results that I'm not sure I can even muster that statement. (December 20, 2021)

[mixednutscoop]

why are u hunting hampshire college students for sport on tumblr dot com

i think hampster students need more exercise to make sure they can evade the cops and employers online if need be

[stone-cold-groove]

Choose your nuts: Planters Salted Mixed Nuts.

[callmeoddity]

Sarabossa is the first song in the Playlist that everything else is in. I skipped past it often

[dr-bengay]

"Just remember that in every pothole there is hope. Well, you see, pothole is spelled P-O-T-H-O-L-E. So if you take the P, and add it to the H, the O, and the E, and rearrange the letters... or contrariwise, you remove the O, T, and the L, you get "hope". So, just remember, in every pothole there is hope!"

- Phillip, Mixed Nuts (1994)

[schreibvibe]

In today's episode of "cats who look like Liev Schreiber characters" (Liev Schreiber characters who look like cats?):

it's HER