World Famous Comics: Action: The Complete Series Action
Action: The Complete Series Action
Starring: Will Dotter Directed By: James D. Parriott, Ted Demme, Bryan Gordon, Adam Bernstein, John Fortenberry Average Rating: Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audience Rating: NC-17 Binding: DVD Format: Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC Label: Sony Pictures Number of Items: 2 Region Code: 99 Release Date: February 21, 2006 Running Time: 299 minutes Theatrical Release Date: September 16, 1999
Product Description: Jay Mohr stars as Peter Dragon in ''Action'' the comedy series about a film exec who hits bottom and finds the only person who will help him get his company back on track is ex-child star turned hooker Wendy Ward (Illeana Douglas).System Requirements:Running Time: 299 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS Rating: NR UPC: 043396075405 Manufacturer No: 07540
Amazon.com: Immoral, politically incorrect, and fiercely funny, Action: The Complete Series is a timeless comedy focusing on a group of Hollywood insiders whose moral compass has spun out of control. Led by uber-producer Peter Dragon (Jay Mohr), the series' first and only season ferociously lampoons the sleaziness of modern-day Hollywood. Dragon--seemingly the separated-at-birth brother of slimy uber-agent Bob Sugar (also played by Mohr) from Jerry Maguire--is a jerk who pretends to be gay when it's convenient and doesn't understand why Salma Hayek (playing herself) would slap him silly for making inappropriate suggestions during an earlier audition. In Dragon's lair, sexual harassment is an inconvenience, the screenwriter is an afterthought, and a movie isn't a film unless it's got mega-explosions. Mohr and Illeana Douglas (portraying an ex-child star turned prostitute turned studio executive) are a joy to watch. When a sycophantic colleague accuses Dragon of promoting a hooker over him, he calmly says, "She's my prostitute. You're my whore." A subtle difference, yes, but one that makes a world of difference in Hollywood. If there's a plus side to this topnotch series being canceled in 1999, it's that the writers didn't have time to let the show disintegrate into hackneyed clichés. There is no warm-hearted parable to justify the nasty means--just a lot of quick-witted dialogue and an excellent ensemble cast that makes viewers enjoy the characters despite (or should that be because of?) their numerous flaws. --Jae-Ha Kim
Now I want to see "Beverly Hills Gun Club" "Action" is yet another one of those great TV series that you've never heard of because it got cancelled almost as soon as it began. The 13 episodes of this series tell the continuing story of Hollywood movie producer Peter Dragon (Jay Mohr) and his attempts to make the seemingly doomed action film "Beverly Hills Gun Club" (the description of which sounds so incredibly bad and trashy that if it really existed I would be the first in line at the cinema to see it) by "selling his soul to the devil one piece at a time".
"Action" is an incredibly funny series. It skewers all of the top names in Hollywood (at the time it was made - 1999), as well as the film industry in general, and doesn't hold back in doing so. Each episode targets a different aspect of showbiz - from actors, to directors, to investors, to writers. No one is spared. The show is completely offensive and is up to its eyeballs in coarse language and sex and drug references, not to mention jokes that are just in plain bad taste - I don't mean gross-out humour, I mean jokes that make you stop and think "I can't believe they just said that", right before bursting out laughing.
The reason why I didn't give this show five stars is because, even though I thoroughly enjoyed this series, the show did start to run out of steam towards the end. The episodes on disc two just aren't as funny as the episodes on disc one, and Illeana Douglas, as child star turned prostitute turned film executive, Wendy Ward (my favourite character in the series, played by one of my favourite actresses) "vanishes" from several episodes on the second disc. Nevertheless, by the time I got to disc two, I was so interested in finding out what the next disaster to befall Peter Dragon would be, that the story kept me going in place of the jokes.
Oh, the lines! "I don't know if I have a price for that" - Wendy Ward, working girl, as Peter Dragon says he's going to throw up on her feet. (At that point in the first episode, I knew they were on to something big!)
"I prefer to think of the sack being half full" - Buddy Hackett in his deadpan innocence.
"You're threatening me? That's a laugh... I'm seventy-nine years old. I've got one kidney, one ball and one lung. I take Viagra just to keep from peeing on my shoes, and you're threatening me? Who are you frightening? " - Uncle Lonnie (Hackett)
"Look, Wendy, I want you to come work for me. Not as a prostitute, no, no, no. I want you to work for me as a motion picture executive, which is just a different kind of prostitute. " - Jay Mohr as Peter Dragon
"You can be a prostitute and humiliate yourself as a job, or you can work as a motion picture executive and humiliate yourself as a career! " - Peter Dragon
"Is that the gun I gave you for Hanukkah?" Illena Douglas as Wendy Ward
The director's commentaries were equally biting. A brilliant piece of comedy that does begin to wander in the final episodes, but absolutely worthwhile nonetheless.
ACTION! Although the series starring Jay Mohr was short-lived, it was packed with non-stop funny. Illeana Douglas was terrific as a bright, witty call girl-turned production executive. Both Jarrad Paul and Jack Plotnick are perfectly cast in supporting roles as is Lee Arenberg who always excels. As this is a racy, raunchy, sexy take on the movie industry, it is definitely for adults only!
Action was too good for television In the first minute of "Action", producer Peter Dragon dresses down a caterer with a series of F-bombs. The caterer's crime? He told Peter Dragon that he was in his parking spot. Jay Mohr was born to play the part of Peter, a producer whose latest action film has just become a complete flop. Now Peter needs to make a hit film, and fast, so that he can regain all of the perks of being a hot Hollywood producer. Along the way he will hire a prostitute as his assistant director, court financing from questionable foreign sources, and give his all to a newly 'out' leading man. There is no lie big enough for Peter Dragon, and we get to watch him discard any principles that he might have had in order to make his film.
Action is simply one of the most biting satires of Hollywood that I've ever seen. It includes cameos of actors playing themselves, but only a couple degrees exaggerated from real life.
Although the later episodes lag, I'm convinced that Action was removed from the air because it hit some nerves in Hollywood. This stuff had to be drawn from someone's real life experiences. Its too funny to simply have been made up.
TOO FUNNY! TOO BAD THIS ONE WASNT MADE ON HBO AS IT MIGHT HAVE SURVIVED LONGER. PETER DRAGON CHARACTER IS ABOUT AS FUNNY AS IT GETS. ITS AMAZING THIS ONE AIRED ON NETWORK TV BUT ITS UNEDITED HERE AND NO BLEEPS IN IT. IT ONLY LASTED 13 EPIDSODES SO THIS IS COMLETE. I WILL WATCH THIS ONE DOWN THE ROAD AGAIN CAUSE IT WAS FUNNY. SO THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN THE PERFECT AMOUNT OF EPIDSODES AS IT WAS JUST TOO FUNNY TO CONTINUE THAT HILARIOUS PACE. I ENJOYED IT ALOT AND THE EXTRAS ARE GREAT. IT YOU WANT TO SEE A LOOK BEHIND THE SCENS OF MOTION PICTURES AND LAUGH ABOUT IT....THIS IS IT.
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