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The Darwin Awards Reviews

2006

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A cheeky nod to Charles Darwin's 'survival of the fittest' theory, the Awards are given to those that accidentally kill or sterilise themselves, thus inadvertently ensuring their genes are not passed down to future generations. Newly unemployed police profiler Michael Burrows teams with Siri Taylor, an insurance investigator, .. Read more

Starring	David Arquette, Ty Burrell, Josh Charles, Joseph Fiennes
Director	Finn Taylor
Genres	Action/Adventure, Comedy

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  - 3
  Are you hoping for a hilarious romp through the most stupid deaths of all time?
  
  I was too so imagine my dispointment when I saw it and it covered only 3 or 4 death scenes, amusing at best, with a large chunk of the film dedicated to an ... read more »
  
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  - JJJ
  - Reading, England
  - 04 Jul 2007 at 19:51
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  Great film not a gore-fest
  
  Very rarely do we review the films we see but this one deserved comment. Far better than expected with an amusing love story that will disappoint the teenage ... read more »
  
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- - a customer
  - 18 Jun 2011 at 09:09
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  Dont Waste Your Time
  
  I love the books but this film was a waste of time! Find something better to do with your time (I went to sleep)
  
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  - Hertford
  - 04 Aug 2009 at 17:34
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  Slur on Darwin
  
  It just goes to prove that Darwins theory isn't always true otherwise the writers etc etc would still be chipping stone and not been allowed to put this ... read more »
  
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  - Tileman
  - 68 reviews
  - liverpool
  - 14 Apr 2009 at 23:58
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  - 0
  Decent enough
  
  Decent film but should have focused more on the deaths rather than a love film.
  
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- - Weesteve2009
  - 4 reviews
  - Paisley
  - 08 Jan 2009 at 14:02
- - 0
  - 0
  Ha Ha
  
  Good concept film that kept me laughing but end a bit Hollywood.
  
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  - Chelmsford
  - 16 Dec 2008 at 00:09
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  Great Idea Poor Film
  
  The Darwin awards is one of those emails you look forward to receiving as the stories are wonderful. This film is quite impressive in that it has taken a ... read more »
  
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- - barney3012
  - 1 review
  - Haywards Heath
  - 13 Jul 2008 at 20:03
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  Darwin Awards
  
  A brilliant film conept based on the internet phenonmenon 'Darwin Awards' - a fabulously entertaining black comedy based on real life events, lead by ... read more »
  
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  - Lymington
  - 24 Jun 2008 at 19:43
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  I can debunk most of these Darwins!
  
  I was rather disappointed to find this relied on Urban Legends considering the number of Darwins that actually happened. And the love story is totally pointless... read more »
  
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  - London
  - 06 May 2008 at 14:23
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  so so comedy
  
  Starts well, great idea, then starts to get bogged down in the storyline with less focus on the ridiculous antics of human kind
  
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- - thrappo
  - 10 reviews
  - Thrapston
  - 04 May 2008 at 19:05
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  - 0
  Terrible
  
  Really bad.
  
  This film is a pseudo love story mixed with a pseudo docudrama mixed with poor infantile humour. The problem is that the Darwin Awards is... read more »
  
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- - freezefrog
  - 4 reviews
  - Sunderland
  - 07 Apr 2008 at 23:29
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- - 23
  - 3
  Are you hoping for a hilarious romp through the most stupid deaths of all time?
  
  I was too so imagine my dispointment when I saw it and it covered only 3 or 4 death scenes, amusing at best, with a large chunk of the film dedicated to an ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 455700
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  - JJJ
  - Reading, England
  - 04 Jul 2007 at 19:51
- - 11
  - 2
  Bad
  
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  Really awful movie unfortunately.
  
  Like a big budget porn, it has an attempt at a plot and fails to deliver where it counts!
  
  The big mobile... read more »
  
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- - Joseph Smith
  - Glasgow, Scotland
  - 09 Jul 2007 at 20:59
- - 8
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  fantastic movie
  
  a real surprise this one. i guess you don't expect a great deal from a film based around what is essentially an internet phenomenon, but this was a ... read more »
  
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- - Jason
  - 49 reviews
  - South Ockendon
  - 29 Aug 2007 at 14:54
- - 6
  - 0
  Better than OK
  
  Well it may not tie together like a true classic but it's a very entertaining movie. I really enjoyed it....which I wasn't expecting after some of the ... read more »
  
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- - Ekt
  - East Side!
  - 25 Aug 2007 at 10:09
- - 4
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  AWFUL
  
  What is this rubbish! Winona Ryder is probably the worst thing in it but it's hard to judge as the whole thing is so anoying. The Dawin Awards of the title... read more »
  
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- - gilesh
  - 108 reviews
  - portesham
  - 12 Sep 2007 at 18:32
- - 3
  - 0
  Waste of an hour and a half!
  
  This film was soo bad i was close to turning it off. I think this film is the reason you can rate films half a star!
  
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  - London
  - 01 Sep 2007 at 19:59
- - 3
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  Different !
  
  Good film, some of the Darwin award are played out, entertaining..
  
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- - Brian Peacock
  - Norwich
  - 06 Dec 2007 at 13:25
- - 2
  - 0
  Clever comedy
  
  Worth watching for the incredible acts people do to buck against the banality of modern life. Good comic acting and nice to hear the Violent Femmes on a ... read more »
  
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- - danceteria
  - 28 reviews
  - SOUTHPORT
  - 11 Aug 2007 at 01:04
- - 2
  - 0
  Funny!
  
  Something different and funny.
  
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- 469571
- - a customer
  - Manchester
  - 27 Aug 2007 at 14:19
- - 2
  - 0
  Not the best
  
  The film was OK, I think I would recommendto keep reading the darwin awards on the web, as opposed to watchi the film.
  
  The story line is pretty ... read more »
  
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- - JimOo
  - 153 reviews
  - Epsom
  - 03 Sep 2007 at 18:26

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- The Darwin Awards
  
  A cheeky nod to Charles Darwin's 'survival of the fittest' theory, the Awards are given to those that accidentally kill or sterilise themselves, thus inadvertently ensuring their genes are not passed down to future generations. Newly unemployed police profiler Michael Burrows teams with Siri Taylor,...