The 'Burbs

My fillings are hot.

Easily in my Top 10 comedies category of all time. Very quotable, super campy, and it stars 2 time Oscar winner Tom Hanks. I have seen this film over 50 times, and will watch it 50 more times within the next 10 days. (Yeah, that's probably not really going to happen, but I do love it and you should get the point.) The 'Burbs is just like any neighborhood one would live in, except in this particular 'hood the neighbors are unnaturally close with each other. Ray (Hanks) is sort of the Leader of the bunch, whereas Art (Ducommun) is sort of the wild one with several theories of the activities in the area. Lt. Rumsfield (Bruce Dern) is retires military, who every morning, salutes the flag in his front yard. Then we have Ricky (Feldman), who is the high school kid who loves the show, but doesn't get involved. He and Rumsfield are the comic relief along with Ray and Art. Let's face it, it's a comedy, and a damn good one. When a mysterious family named the Klopeks move in on their street, some questions arise. Like, what happened to the Knapps? (The original owners of the house.) While Ray is on vacation, and his family out of town, his good buddy Art wants to dig deeper. Along with the strange Klopeks, the grumpy old man on the block, Walter has also disappeared. Art thinks he has been murdered and the hilarity ensues. It all starts with a Femur bone, which happens to be a human thigh bone. The several feeble attempts to find evidence leaves the crew looking stupid and embarrassed. At this point they give up, well, Ray does anyway. Art and Rumsfield want to pursue, but Ray feels he has wronged these people, and wants it to stop. Then everything changes and Ray is back on board. Now he won't be stopped. Not by the cops, or the Klopeks, or his wife who happens to be Princess Leia. He and the whole lot of them get into some serious trouble, but will they succeed, or go down in a ball of flames? I can't believe how much I enjoy this film, but that enjoyment has been magnified exponentially since A-Bomb and I realized we are The 'Burbs. I am Art, he is Ray, Next to me is Ricky, and next to A-Bomb is Rumsfield. It's all too perfect, and that makes this movie so much more fun. 

"Stop!! There's these people in parents house and they are eating all their food!" - Ricky impeding the police.

NBM rates The 'Burbs - A Cinematic Work of Art

Buy It!!!