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Waterworld |  | Directors: Kevin Costner, Kevin Reynolds
Actors: Kevin Costner, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Dennis Hopper, Tina Majorino, Chaim Girafi
Studio: Mca (Universal)
Category: Video
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Rating:  117 reviews
Sales Rank: 3005
Format: NTSC
Language: English (Unknown)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: VHS Tape
Running Time: 135 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 6303909884
UPC: 096898241939
EAN: 9786303909882
ASIN: 6303909884
Theatrical Release Date: July 28, 1995
Release Date: October 29, 2002
Availability: Usually ships within 1 - 2 business days
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Let's be honest: this 1995 epic isn't nearly as bad as its negative publicity led us to expect. At the time it was the most expensive Hollywood production in history (it had a Titanic-sized $200 million budget), and the film arrived in theaters with so much controversy and negative gossip that it was an easy target for ridicule. The movie itself, a flawed but enjoyable post-apocalypse thriller, deserves better. Waterworld stars Kevin Costner as the Mariner, a lone maverick with gills and webbed feet who navigates the endless seas of Earth after the complete melting of the polar ice caps. The Mariner has been caged like a criminal when he's freed by Helen (Jeanne Tripplehorn) and enlisted to help her and a young girl (Tina Majorino) escape from the Smokers, a group of renegade terrorists led by Dennis Hopper in yet another memorably villainous role. It is too bad the predictable script isn't more intelligent, but as a companion piece to The Road Warrior, this seafaring stunt-fest is adequately impressive. --Jeff Shannon
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Soyons honnêtes : ce film à grand spectacle, sorti en 1995, n'est pas aussi mauvais que les critiques, désastreuses, le laissèrent entendre. À l'époque, il s'agissait de la production la plus chère de l'histoire d'Hollywood - avec un budget de 200 millions de dollars, digne de celui de Titanic, et le film arriva dans les salles précédé de tellement de controverses et de rumeurs négatives qu'il fournissait une cible idéale. L'oeuvre elle-même est effectivement loin d'être parfaite ; pourtant, ce thriller apocalyptique n'est pas sans intérêt. Kevin Costner y interprète le rôle du Mariner, un loup solitaire qui a des écailles et des pieds palmés et qui navigue sur les mers du Monde après le dégel total des pôles. Le Mariner est enfermé comme un criminel avant d'être libéré et engagé par Helen (Jeanne Tripplehorn) pour l'aider à échapper avec une autre jeune fille (Tina Majorino) aux Smokers, une bande de terroristes menés par Dennis Hopper, encore une fois dans un rôle mémorable de méchant. Il est dommage que le scénario soit trop prévisible et manque un peu de finesse, mais ce film plein de cascades aquatiques peut se ranger parfaitement à côté de Mad Max. --Jeff Shannon
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Hello? Am I the only one that understands what Fiction means June 28, 2004
Jeremy Stiltz (Chandler, AZ United States)
First I want to state that I really enjoyed this movie. I liked it's post apocolypitic view of the world covered in water. The story was done well and the look and feel of a watered down Mad Max was creatively done. I enjoyed it from start to finish.Now on to all the people that apparently do not know what ficiton is. This movie is fiction! That means it's not real or based on total possible reality! So all these people saying, it's not possible for a guy to have gills, or that one scene just couldn't be possible, go get an A&E special if you want reality. If you find yourself repeating to yourself "It's only a movie", go get an imagination too! Everyone is entitled to their opinion but sometimes I wonder how people allow their ideas to be skewed by the majority. By the way after the 4th viewing I just barely noticed Dry Land is Mt. Everest!
 Um... Yeah June 24, 2004
JKlein190 (IL)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
In the scene where the little girl is in the water and Kevin Costner bungees down to get her, even if Costner had not retrieved the girl, the two water-jetting enemies would have crashed into each other anyway.I just wanted to point out this humerous fact, I'm sorry.
 They should release the extended version May 19, 2004
Jennifer Fuhrman (Garden Grove, CA United States)
I first saw this movie as a rental of the theatrical version. It was okay. But I liked it much better when I saw the extended version on broadcast tv. About 45 minutes of footage is added to the extended version, which actually helps the movie a great deal in my opinion. While the extended version is shown on sci-fi channel from time to time (in a four hour time slot), it is not available on video. Nor is the additional footage contained on the DVD release - to my knowledge. So they should release the extended version on DVD, which would be worth buying.
More like 4 and half stars April 25, 2004
William L Wesley (Winooski, VT United States)
I never understood why people didn't like this movie more, When i first watched it I was entranced. When I watched again I thought it was just as good. For an aventure film it was great transfomable boats a post-apocliptic world what more do you need. Personally I think that people have some kind of gtripe against KEevin Costner for some reason I have enjoyed all the movies aof his I have seen.My only real gripe about the movie is that they burned the boat in the end.
I agree, it's not THAT BAD ... April 13, 2004
Ron Sullivan (Philadelphia, PA United States)
Waterworld is definitely a flawed movie, but it's not awful.Pros: 1. Dennis Hopper is clearly having a blast playing 'The Deacon' as is really fun to watch. 2. The set design (and costume design) of the a-toll villages shows a great deal of creativity. 3. The action scenes are well choreographed and creative. ... However, as (laughing) MANY reviewers have pointed out, there are glaring problems that were never addressed. Leading me to... Cons 1. The idea to design the set on water, which was a major reason for the ridiculously inflated budget, totally backfired. It never seemed to dawn on anyone that (as opposed to a lush jungle, for example) one part of the texture-less, open sea tended to look like another. It's not like the cast was constantly battling the weather or the sea itself either. I might have been awed watching 'The Marnier' battle his way through a hurricane or a sea-squall, but we don't see anything like that. Just flat ... calm ... boring ... water.... everywhere. Could I, at least, see a wave? Or a swell? 2. Kevin Costner's impression of Clint Eastwood's 'Man with no name' doesn't work. Instead of making him dark and mysterious, Costner, I felt, actually alienated himself from the audience to the point where we didn't care WHAT happened to him. Eastwood could burn a hole through you with a glare and was an absolute master at acting with his eyes and facial expressions. Costner just seems to stand there with the same look on his face I get from my dog when it hears my voice coming from the answering machine. 3. Other then the villain, who we're not supposed to be able to connect with, there really wasn't a single "likeable" character. I was actually GLAD when Costner threw the little girl over-board; man was she getting on my nerves at that point. 4. The pace of the movie was TERRIBLE, and I read IT WAS CUT DOWN! WOW ... for an action movie, this REALLY trudged along at a snail's pace. I would have cut another 1/2 off, minimum. If the story's going to be a little weak, you could AT LEAST get to the battle scenes a little quicker. To sum up, I can't POSSIBLY recommend buying a copy, but you could rent it. Just make sure you keep your finger near the fast-forward button.
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