Adopted

2009
4.3| 1h20m| en| More Info
Released: 01 January 2009 Released
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Official Website: http://www.paulyshoreadopted.com/
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For hundreds of years, Africa has existed in a state of despair. Famine, civil wars and rampant disease have left the continent without hope, but for the efforts of Western do-gooders. At first, they arrived with food, bibles and the magic of penicillin; more recently they have hosted rock concerts and sent plane loads of grain. And in the last decade of the 20th century they arrived and took babies home with them. First there was Angelina, then Madonna, and now...Pauly Shore! The film builds its comedy foundation on the international interest in Celebrity Adoptions, and the debate that surrounds these transactions on both sides of the Atlantic. Sometimes politically incorrect and never scared to tread on manicured toes.

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candyala I watched it, all of it, plus the bonus, it was lame jokes, no originality, a stereotypical broader line racist observation, as you will notice in the little bar stand-up the Africans[ black folks] themselves did not laugh at his jokes , and in response, he dissed/busted on them.The film was careful not to have any audio from his stand-up performance in front of mainly white south Afrikaners, the producers knew American are more conscious / critical of crap racial / ethnic humor. HE tried to make hood jokes where there was no hoods, I guess its the only reference to black folks he knows ?!So it falls flat many times, but I will give him 2 stars for the journey .Yes,he did hang on the streets and in the end recommended how to appropriately support 'africa'.The country was Azania/ the old south Africa..keep coming back and try again!!
Todd Bearden This movie really made me chuckle. It took me a few minutes to get it but once I understood it really had me rolling around. It was obviously staged and not real. It was scripted. Anyone who gave it a bad review just maybe didn't catch that. Shore isn't a great actor or anything he just does silly little things the whole time.Really funny!! The kids in the film looked like they had a fun day too. I love the fact that he is poking at Madonna and Angelina too. I think their publicists did review here and really dissed him for it.Hey, Madonna and Angelina..."This child does not want to go with you!" "You should be in prison!!"hahaha. Keep your publicist off of these review sites. Ridley and Coppola...pssht, yeah right...fake nameSuper-fun movie. Check it out.
Sister_Spooky "The events in this film are entirely fictitious…" and if you didn't figure that out before the end credits rolled, irony is clearly not your thing. You're awesome. Good job.Since he introduced the The Weasel in the 80s, Pauly Shore's brand of comedy has been childish and unsophisticated; make no mistake, Adopted is no exception. But for the first time in his career, his objective seems to be sincere. Pauly draws attention to some heavy subject matter, while poking fun at the ridiculousness of celebrity, and pointing out the general lack of knowledge and superior attitude that too many people have towards adoption in Africa. I wouldn't go so far as to say Pauly is all grown-up – the fourteen-year old part of me will mourn the day that he does – but he has definitely found an interesting way to reconnect with his now all-grown-up audience.Not unlike the crude, satirical style of Sacha Baron Cohen, Pauly Shore's sense of humor can be… tricky, but the message is that you CAN be aware and be sensitive and find a way to laugh all at the same time. And after all these years, he still makes me laugh.
LawWithAppeal I wasn't sure what to expect from this movie as Pauly hasn't really had much come out in a while, however the cover caught my eye off the bat as ridiculous. As many others I thought it might just be awful, however with an open mind and taking Shore's humor into consideration I watched it. I'm sorry but it's a MOCKumentary and it's a good one. I think some of the jokes could be found offensive if this were a documentary and Shore genuinely believed the stereotypes to be true, however it isn't. I think this is Shore's funniest stuff in a long time. In addition, I enjoyed seeing Africa, it looked beautiful. So all in all it is not for all, if you don't like Shore to begin with you will not like this movie, but if you are open to the comedy of it's worth the time to watch.