Pauly Shore Is Dead (2003)

Director:

Pauly Shore

Writers:

Kirk Fox (writer)
Pauly Shore (writer)

Genre:

Comedy

Tagline:

Hollywood will never be the same.

Plot:

Hollywood's Pauly Shore loses everything, fakes his own death, and gets caught!

Plot Keywords:

Character Name In Title

Awards:

1 win

Cast

Ashley L. Anderson	...	Ashley
Pamela Anderson	...	Herself
Camille Anderson	...	Michael Madsen's Girl
Beaumont Bacon	...	Pauly Look-A-Like Contestant
Adam Barnhardt	...	Lawrence
Dan Barnes	...	Cop #4
A.J. Benza	...	Himself
Susan Berger	...	Tourist #2
Jaime Bergman	...	Zoey Abernacky
Blunt	...	Newspaper Stand Attendant
Louis Freese	...	Himself (as B-Real)
Todd Bridges	...	Himself
W. Earl Brown	...	Bucky From Kentucky
Julia Brox	...	Springer Girl #2
Julie Bruce	...	Tourist #9 in Van

Also Known As:

Pauly Shore Is Dead (Australia)
You'll Never Wiez in This Town Again (USA) (working title)

MPAA:

Rated R for language, sexual content and some drug references.

Runtime:

USA:82 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Finland:K-15 | Australia:MA | Canada:18A (Ontario) | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Trivia:

Most of the quick celebrity cameos were done by Shore quickly shooting scenes that required them during breaks on other movie sets.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: When Pauly puts on Springer in prison, you can see the outlet behind the TV, and there is nothing plugged in.

Quotes:

Pauly Shore: Hey, aren't you Tom Sizemore?
Michael Madsen's girlfriend: No, this is Michael Madsen.
Pauly Shore: What's the difference?
Michael Madsen's girlfriend: Six inches.

Movie Connections:

References "Access Hollywood" (1996)

Soundtrack:

Funny Cigarettes

Making my attempt to remain objective.

You know, I don't even hate Pauly Shore nearly as much as many other people seem to, and it's still hard to remain objective during the course of this movie and actually judge it for what it's worth. Well, let me get to what I thought it was going to be.

My girlfriend and I were cruising the rental place having just returned Team America and Party Monster. I saw it on the shelf and had looked at it before, but never had the guts to rent it. So we did. We returned home, threw it in, and I started it expecting some sort of funny, dark prank where Shore went around getting interviews from famous actors and comedians about their opinions of the 'late' Pauly Shore. That would have been funny. But I can't judge the movie on my own disappointment from that aspect. This is what you actually get.

Pauly. Shore. Writing.

Yeah, that's it, let it sink in. Absorb it. It's just about as painful as it sounds. There are some decent parts, I'll give him credit for what he wrote that actually did turn out funny, but it's funny for all the wrong reasons. Your reactions might sound like, "holy hell, he actually got Tom Siezmore/Micheal Madsen/Ben Stiller/Carrot Top to do this for him?" Those parts are funny enough, but the parts with the maddened redneck and Shore undercover get just plain embarrassing. Too much of the movie is written and the acting contrasts by being half-assed by everybody but Pauly and his mother Mitzi on the phone.

The writing isn't the only bad part, though, the whole thing is done on digital film because (educated guess) it's cheaper. It just looks bad when it's not done right, and he didn't do it right. Most of the movie looks rather like a bunch of giddy little high school girls doing a project for the lit. class. Just bad choices, bad direction, really rough editing, so many things that chop away at the score.

Pauly Shore claims to have worked on this for over four years. The man needs to get a life. Buuuuuuuuuuuddy.