Official Synopsis:
This Just In...

The Onion invades DVD! Based on the wildly popular newspaper hailed by The New Yorker as "the funniest publication in the United States", The Onion Movie brings you uncensored, uninhibited, UNRATED news and views from around the world. In a stunning development, when Onion News anchorman Norm Archer (Len Cariou) is asked to compromise his journalistic integrity to please a new corporate sponsor, he doesn't just get mad, he gets... angry. Taking aim at pop stars, prisoners, peace talks and, of course, high-testosterone action films, The Onion Movie delivers hard-hitting headlines - and side-splitting laughs!
  
Our Take:
Huh?

I feel as though the producers of The Onion Movie are breaking some sort of false advertising law in naming whatever I just watched as “a movie”. They could have at least titled it something that would have clued me in, like Epic Movie or Date Movie, because that is the exact level of “side-splitting laughs!” The Onion Movie provides.

I don’t really pay attention to The Onion. I’ve never read or watched anything they’ve done before and thankfully, after watching this, I can rest easy with knowing I’m not missing a thing by missing out on The Onion.

A news reporter “links” most of the “sketches” together as the “clever” writers take hard “jabs” at all the “hot” topics of today. It took a lot of quotes to beat that point into the ground but it was worth it. What’s even worse about this mish-mash of a movie is that not only is every segment unfunny, but every so often we take a time-out from the movie to go to a Charlie Rose-esque interview where a couple of experts do a brief commentary on what we have just been watching. It’s mind-numbingly painful.

Special features include:

* Deleted Scenes (9 minutes).

* Outtakes (3 minutes).

The only reason I didn’t give The Onion Movie an F is because a few familiar faces from other sketch comedy groups that I like show up throughout this movie. That was the one redeeming factor I had throughout watching and it wasn’t even close to making it a worthwhile experience.

Overall Picture:
Movie: D-
DVD: C

- Landen Chase Pelish
Staff Writer