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''Good Burger'' received largely negative reviews from film critics, garnering a "Rotten" rating of 31% on [[Rotten Tomatoes]]. Despite negative reviews, the film has since gained a [[cult following]]. |
''Good Burger'' received largely negative reviews from film critics, garnering a "Rotten" rating of 31% on [[Rotten Tomatoes]]. Despite negative reviews, the film has since gained a [[cult following]].{{fact}} |
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| Good Burger | |
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| File:GoodBurgerPoster.jpg Home video promotional poster | |
| Directed by | Brian Robbins |
| Written by | Kevin Kopelow Dan Schneider Heath Seifert |
| Produced by | Mike Tollin Brian Robbins Dan Schneider Julia Pistor (exec.) |
| Starring | Kenan Thompson Kel Mitchell Sinbad Abe Vigoda Shar Jackson Dan Schneider Jan Schweiterman Josh Server |
| Music by | Stewart Copeland |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 103 minutes |
| Country | Template:Film US |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $9,000,000 |
| Box office | $23,712,993 (USA) |
Good Burger is a 1997 American comedy film by Nickelodeon Movies, released by Paramount Pictures, directed by Brian Robbins, and starring Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell. It also features Sinbad, Shar Jackson, Abe Vigoda, and Jan Schweiterman. The film was based on a recurring sketch on Nickelodeon's sketch show All That. Carmen Electra, Shaquille O'Neal, and George Clinton also make cameo appearances.
Plot
Ed (Kel Mitchell) is a comically clueless and unintelligent fast food attendant working at the restaurant of the fast food chain, the Good Burger. Ed seems to always be wearing his uniform, even while showering. After an eventful journey to work one day, Ed discovers that Good Burger has competition when another restaurant, Mondo Burger, is built across the street. The Good Burger manager, Mr. Bailey, is slightly worried about the new restaurant, but encourages his employees to not give up hope. Meanwhile, Dexter Reed (Kenan Thompson) is a more sensible and intelligent teenager, albeit a slacker who believes he can spend the rest of the summer partying.
One day, while rollerskating in the street while singing, Ed causes Dexter to swerve out of the way of hitting him, and subsequently gets into a car accident with his teacher, Mr. Wheat. Dexter, not having a driver’s license, is in danger of going to jail; however, he convinces Mr. Wheat to pay for the damages. He has to take a job during summer break, something he had been against. First, he is hired by Mondo Burger, but he is fired due to his irresponsibility. Dexter goes into Good Burger and meets Ed. The two befriend each other, and Ed even helps Dexter get a job at Good Burger.
Soon after, Mondo Burger rises in popularity, causing Good Burger to almost go out of business. Also, Dexter eventually realizes that Ed was responsible for getting him involved, but when they make a sauce to add to their burgers, Good Burger's popularity rises. Mondo Burger then decides to try and acquire the secret sauce. They first attempt to trick Ed into giving them the sauce, but fails. They then decide to try and seduce him by hiring Roxanne (Carmen Electra), but this also failed due to Ed's clumsiness which hurt her a lot (to the point she was mostly in casts when she decides to quit from Mondo Burger). Dexter also briefly dates a female worker at Good Burger, but she discovers that Dexter had Ed supply him with a large percentage of his share of the sauce. When Dexter was about to call off the percentages, they find a dog. Ed thinks that the dog is trying to ask for help in regard to five clowns whose car had broken down (which is ironically true at the end of the scene). Dexter, however, thinks that he is hungry and feeds him burgers from the restaurants. Dexter and Ed discover that Kurt has his employees inject an illegal chemical called Triampathol into the burgers. Kurt confines them in a mental institution.
Kurt and his henchmen break in Good Burger to dump Shark Poison into the sauce, but get caught by Otis, who is sent to the asylum. At the asylum, Ed manages to befriend a violent mute and a woman who released Kangaroos from the Zoo. They managed to escape from the facility with the help from their new friend. Once escaping, the trio then hijacks an Ice Cream Truck while escaping. They return to Good Burger and resolve to explain what happened all to them by finding evidence against Mondo Burger.
Ed and Dexter then sneak back into the Mondo Burger kitchen. Dexter then devises a plan; he will cause a distraction to the Mondo Burger employees while Ed steals one of the Triampathol containers. The first part of the plan goes accordingly however; Ed inadvertently knocks some containers into the burger vat when trying to steal one. However, he does get the idea to use them to enlarge it. Kurt chases and corners Dexter. However Dexter’s plan appears to have failed when Ed meets up with him with the stolen sample, allowing Kurt to immediately retrieve it back. To add to Kurt’s amusement, Ed appears to have stolen an empty container thus making their scheme pointless even if Ed had gotten to the authorities. Ed explains to Dexter that it was not empty when he got it, making Dexter realize that he dumped them into the vat. Mondo Burger is destroyed by the oversized burgers and is arrested by the authorities and Dexter and Ed uses a can of Triampathol as evidence, foiling Kurt's plan. Ed then explains that he got the idea due to realizing the high chance of being arrested, and Kurt delaying the trial by months by using his resources to hire a team of lawyers even if he managed to get the Triamphathol to the proper authorities. Dexter then tells Ed that he has rescinded on the shares agreement, allowing him to keep all of his shares, and Good Burger celebrates their victory.
Cast
- Kenan Thompson as Dexter Reed
- Kel Mitchell as Ed
- Sinbad as Mr. Wheat
- Abe Vigoda as Otis
- Shar Jackson as Monique
- Dan Schneider as Mr. Bailey
- Ron Lester as Spatch
- Jan Schweiterman as Kurt Bozwell
- Josh Server as Fizz
- Linda Cardellini as Heather
- Shaquille O'Neal as Himself
- Robert Wuhl as Angry Customer
- Carmen Electra as Roxanne
- Marques Houston as Jake
- J. August Richards as Griffen
- Lori Beth Denberg as Connie Muldoon
- Wendy Worthington as Demented Hills Nurse
Deleted scenes
A scene that was not included in the release but made it into the trailers includes a customer saying to Ed, "Give me a good shake," and Ed subsequently grabbing and shaking him. A deleted scene that Kel Mitchell wanted to put in the film but director Brian Robbins vetoed was one in which Dexter says to Ed "Excuse me a second," and Ed waits literally one second before following Dexter. The head-butting scene was removed by the BBFC for the UK video release, even though in the cinema release that scene was uncut.
Critical reception
Good Burger received largely negative reviews from film critics, garnering a "Rotten" rating of 31% on Rotten Tomatoes. Despite negative reviews, the film has since gained a cult following.[citation needed]
Filming
Most of the film's scenes were filmed along S Glendora Avenue in West Covina, California.[1] The building known as "Good Burger" in the movie was filmed at a restaurant currently known as "Manny's El Loco" 437 Glendora Ave., West Covina, CA. Meanwhile, Mondo Burger was located across the street at the Samantha Courtyard shopping center, with extra details added to the facade for the film.
Soundtrack
A soundtrack containing hip hop, R&B and rock music was released on July 15, 1997 by Capitol Records. It peaked at 101 on the Billboard 200 and 65 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums.
2007 and 2010 "Nick at Nite" premieres
In 2007, Nickelodeon revived Good Burger and showed it on Nick@Nite December 8, 2007. Before it was shown, Nickelodeon had two of the actors record over what they said in the previous film to censor it for kids. The first censor is when Otis says "I think I broke my ass". Nickelodeon censored it so he said "I think I broke my tail". The other is when the man in the mental institution (played by George Clinton) says "Ooh, this music sucks", which was censored to "Ooh, this music stinks". The actors' lips almost clearly show the original lines, and closed captioning will reveal the original lines. Subsequent showings, such as the January 17, 2010 showing, have also been censored in the same fashion.
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