Stellead Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

Griff Lees Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Kamila Bell This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

Gideon24 Saving Silverman is another guilty pleasure of mine, a film that is kind of silly and pointless, but I think is really funny and has great re- watch appeal.The film is about a trio of childhood pals (Jason Biggs, Steve Zahn, Jack Black), who have a Neil Diamond tribute band, who find themselves torn apart when Biggs meets an emasculating psychologist (Amanda Peet), who demands that Biggs not see Zahn and Black anymore and their mission to get Biggs away from this shrew, who has Biggs so whipped he doesn't even realize it when the woman he really loves (Amanda Detmer) re-enters his life.The film goes all the places you expect it to, but the journey is very, very funny thanks primarily to deliciously entertaining performances from Zahn and Black. The breezy direction by Dennis Dugan, who directed a lot of Adam Sandler's best comedies, is a big plus and the film is worth seeing, if for no other reason, to see Jack Black and R Lee Ermey (FULL METAL JACKET) share a kiss.

starshiptrooper100 I just streamed this and it seemed a little slow and stupid with the Neil Diamond tribute band in the beginning but then it gets really funny after the kidnapping. I'm not a particularly big fan of Jason Biggs but I stuck with it because generally everything Jack Black is in is gold but here I would say Amanda Peet puts on the command performance. I previously have not been familiar with her but here she is just ravishing and dominating at the same time. Let's just say she can really handle herself! The funniest dialog is the impromptu psychoanalyzing but I can't say too much about that without giving away plot points.

TheUnknown837-1 I was introduced to "Saving Silverman" by the same two friends of mine who talked me into watching that abysmally bad piece of garbage "Van Wilder," a picture whose appeal I will never comprehend as long as I live. But "Van Wilder" is better than "Saving Silverman" for one fundamental reason. With "Van Wilder" I was mostly bored out of my mind. "Saving Silverman", by contrast, spat in my face with its abundance of senseless profanity, sickening concepts of humor, and offensive misogyny even though it's supposed to be about friendship and true love. I saw this picture many, many years ago and I can still recollect to this day sitting there with a gaping mouth, my eyes glued to the screen only to see just how much more offensive and morally mordacious it could get.The movie's stars are Steve Zahn and Jack Black, two people who I think show talent but are wasted here, as two of a longtime threesome friendship. The third man of their group is Jason Biggs, playing a lovesick dweeb of a loser (that means he's pathetic) who thinks he's found the love of his life in a tenaciously autocratic woman played by Amanda Peet. When Biggs's high school crush (Amanda Detner) steps into the picture, Zahn and Black decide to try and break Peet from Biggs by any means necessary and reunite him with his former love.In theory, this could have been more than efficient. Yes, I like the idea of "Saving Silverman." Two friends are shut off from their buddy by a tyrannizing lover and try to save him. Yes, I even like the *idea* of them kidnapping her as effort to save him. Yes, I liked the concept. What I didn't like - what I hated - was the tasteless, astoundingly bad methods that the screenwriters and director Dennis Dugan decided to go with. The most harmless 'humor' in this picture is people getting beat up, slapped around, and getting attacked by raccoons. Typically boring routine slapstick. That's dull, but harmless. Insulting are the lack of taste in the satire of nuns (and overused excuse for humor), the tiresome profanity, and the always tiresome gags about closet homosexuals. The fact that they are still using that, nine years later in "The Other Guys" gives me little hope for modern-day slapsticks. I'll take Joe E. Brown or Jerry Lewis over this any day. These jokes here are not only not funny, but a little sickening, as is that visually disgusting moment where Jason Biggs has plastic surgery on his hindquarters. Yuck!What I also found morally repugnant was the movie's look toward women. I already mentioned the unfavorable approach on profanity-spitting, macho nuns. Let's talk about how the two Amandas are presented. The two central female characters in the picture. One is a despicable tyrant and the other is portrayed as a slattern. A goodhearted slattern, but a slattern nonetheless. Amanda Peet having nothing to do but be vicious and chew up her scenes and Amanda Detner being clothed in the thinnest of clothing and yet at the same time, be trying to achieve chastity by becoming a sister. Why is it, I ask that women are treated a lot in modern-day comedies as (insert word for female dogs) or sluts? Can't they be respectable? They're actually treated with less dignity than the male stars. And I couldn't stand their characters, either.Now "Saving Silverman" did hold my attention, because I had a strong reaction to what I saw. But reactions go both ways. Positive and negative. I had an intensely strong negative reaction to his picture and I was thunderstruck at just how offensively dumb it could get. It's a good idea with a good cast that should have been utilized with a good script. The only element I found interesting was R. Lee Emery's performance as the former coach of the three dummies. It's better for a movie to be forgettably bad than memorably bad. This is the latter. It's been years and I can still taste the bitter detestation.

sychonic Okay, the summary line is a bit much. But this movie combines so many strange odd elements it's hard to generalize in a summary.Probably everyone knows the plot: Three guys who are on the lower end of the food chain spend their time being sloths and playing in a Neil Diamond cover band. In and of itself, that's hilarious.Being a Neil Diamond fan, I appreciate the assertion, seemingly incontestable, that Neil Diamond is one of America's greatest song writers.The basic plot: one of the losers in the band falls in love with a gorgeous woman (nastily, and well, played by Amanda Peet) who promptly puts him under his thumb.And our other losers are aghast, and take action to respond to the situation, in a remarkably stupid fashion. But what do we expect? There are some gross out scenes, a lot of them actually. But if you can forgive those, there are some really funny, weird scenes. Adding in a cameo (ultra spoiler here) by Neil himself at the end, wonderful. Also and appearance by Varney, a Vietnam era drill instructor in such movies as Apocalypse Now and Full Metal Jacket, as a very strange football coach, there are some plot diversions that one can at least go "huh" at.It's still juvenile, and very stupid usually, but there's enough fun, amidst the gross out, that at the right moment, it might be worth it.