SnoReptilePlenty Memorable, crazy movie

BoardChiri Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

BelSports 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.

Wyatt There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

oarch This was so unfunny words can't describe it. Why Jeff Daniels agreed to act in this loser, I have no idea. I watched about 45 minutes of it, and only because I rented it myself and did not want to offend friends by taking it out after 5 minutes. Now I have to rent 4-5 masterpieces to make up for the bad taste.Avoid at all costs.

Paul Kershaw Being a fellow Michigander (with Jeff Daniels), I can see part of where this movie came from. It's a satirical look at Midwestern family values and sexual mores (like Daniels' other, more well-known, and overall better "Pleasantville"). Unlike "Pleasantville," where the attacks on sexual puritanism are subtle enough for some casual viewers to miss, "Super Sucker" is blatant.The premise: A down-and-out vacuum cleaner distributor (Daniels) in a moderate-sized Midwest town (based on and shot in Jackson, Michigan) has been given 30 days to outsell his overbearing and obnoxious competitor. Whoever sells the most systems gets sole rights to distributorship. Daniels seems destined to lose -- the competition has much more advertising money, and is willing to throw any rules of fairness out the window -- until he discovers a special use for a long-discontinued attachment. He puts the attachment into rapid production, and offers it as a "special bonus" that only his distributorship has available. His fate changes radically, buildi ng up to a raucous farce of a climax.The buildup is, in my opinion, slow, and bits are ham-fistedly predictable; the "cat" scene belonged in a Farrelly Brothers movie (and that's not a compliment), but it was thankfully brief. But once it gets going (around the midpoint), and writer/director Daniels decides that whatever real world logic he had been attempting to follow should be thrown out the window in favor of over-the-top absurdity, it has some truly comedic scenes. In a time when Michigan's sexual more pendulum appears to be swinging back to the left, the film is a nice push in the right direction. And, sociosexual politics aside, it's a darn fine piece of unpretentious independent comedy -- something we can never have enough of.TV buffs will likely enjoy a cameo from Gilligan Island's Dawn Wells, making fun of her own stereotyping as Mary Ann.Purple Rose fans will note that, except for bits of body-humor comedy and Daniels' affably hapless good guy (a persona he started with "Something Wild"), this is a much different film than Escanaba in Da Moonlight (also a good movie, although I enjoyed the play more). Like "Pleasantville," it has more national appeal ("Escanaba" was rife with Michigan in-jokes), and despite some of its stageplay-like shots, it's obviously based on a screenplay, with many more scenes and a much larger cast. I hope Purple Rose works out its own kinks in distributorship (leaving me wondering if Daniels' frustration here didn't contribute to "Super Sucker"'s premise), because these films deserve a larger audience than they seem to be getting.

dm317 This film was good, the acting was wonderful , Jeff Daniels did a Great job as the Super Sucker Salesman- anyone who has ever sold vacuums and love vacuums this is a wonderful movie, they will find this a treasure. For everyone else, it's an off beat funny movie that you'll enjoy. Although it probably won't go well in the theaters due to the advertising of this movie, it is worth seeing. The supporting Cast is Great, Matt Letscher (Howard) was Hilarious, he was a wonderful addition to the film, a stand out performance.. If you have a chance -go see this movie, on the whole you will enjoy it, some parts are a bit off center and have you thinking "What??" , but the comedy is great!

tony_boling That would be a very good compliment in the Super Sucker world created by Jeff Daniels. This movie is F-U-N-N-Y and hopefully will be viewed by people other than just the cities of Jackson and Ann Arbor Michigan. I attended the second showing of the movie in Jackson on February 23rd 2002 hosted by Jeff Daniels.In a nutshell the movie is about two rival Super Sucker distributers in the same city (Johnson City) competing for total sales rights for that city. The result, a competition. Whichever distributer sells the most Super Suckers in a month wins, and the other bows out. Fred Barlows team (Daniels) isn't doing so hot because the competition has a bit more money an resources. With a new member on the team and doing poorer than ever, Barlow begins offering a "drapery attachment" with every purchase on a Super Sucker. I don't wanna give away what the attachment does for "lonely housewives" but there's quite a bit of sexual inuendo in the film, a lot actually. Needless to say this proves to be a very smart move for the Barlow team but as usual, things start to "suck" and the plot thickens.All in all I think this movie will appeal to a much wider audience than Escanaba in da moonlight ever did, or will, and will hopefully find a spot right up with your big hollywood summer comedies.There was quite a lack of verbal profanity, but many sexual references which earned this movie an R rating. It was kinda slow in the very beginning with a chuckle here and there, but when the "Homemakers Little Helper" (drapery attachment) hits the masses of Johnson City, it really starts to get good. There were so many moment comparable to "There's Something About Mary", Meet The Parents", and "Dumb And Dumber" that this independent movie will just HAVE to get pick up by someone and ready for a full theatrical release. The writing is good, the plot was good, everything was very good for it being an independent movie, but don't let that fact that it's not a big time hollywood release scare you, it's very much equal to your big summer releases and I hope to see it again.On a side note, this movie was kida special for me because my girlfriends mom had a small part as an extra in the fil as Housewife #4. During the scene where the salemen are trying to pitch the Homemakers Little helper door-to-door, Denise Weber was the first of the housewives to actually "use" the attachment excluding Fred Barlows wive in the beginning of the movie. I certainly hope all of you get to enjoy this film very soon.Tony