After the cancellation of Bosom Buddies, the show that gave him his start, Tom Hanks starred in his share of goofy comedies throughout the late eighties and early nineties. While Big and Turner and Hooch are both entirely watchable movies in their own right, Joe Vs. The Volcano is the one that stands as one of the all time must download movies.
What makes this one any different? Well to begin with, Big and Turner and Hooch were fun comedies, but Joe Vs. The Volcano is something more. It's a great comedy, yes, but it's more than that, even. The movie is sort of a Rocky story. It contains the meaning of life. Hanks begins as an everyman, selling his time for, as he puts it, "Three hundred dollars a week".
The film starts off with Joe slaving away at a miserable, miserable job. He works in a dismal factory, a disgusting, repugnant block of concrete in the middle of a field of mud, where flickering fluorescent lights, he believes, are giving him cancer. Bo Welch, the set designer for Beetlejuice, created this ugly masterpiece of depression as well as the look of the rest of the film.
The hypochondriac Joe quits this job when he's told by a doctor that he has a "Brain Cloud" which will kill him in five or six months. Into Joe's life comes an industrialist who offers him the opportunity to "Live like a king and die like a man".
The industrialist, played wonderfully in his one scene by Lloyd Bridges, will finance Joe's trip and all the luxuries he can indulge in if he'll go to the Waponi Woo and jump into a volcano. The industrialist uses this island for mining, but the people of the island are fearful of the volcano and believe that it needs a human sacrifice every hundred years lest it blow up and kill them all. The chief, finding nobody among his own cowardly people to do the deed, needs Joe to do it.
This scenario gives Joe his life back. From here he becomes more daring, more appreciative of the human experience. Therein lies what makes this movie so special, it's core philosophy: Stop worrying and enjoy life for what it is, because it's really pretty great.
This feeling, this almost boring, understated wisdom also drives the look and feel of the movie. If you haven't seen this movie, you've never seen a movie that looks like this. It seems to take place in some kind of second cousin fantasy reflection of our own world.
Spoiler Alert: The original draft of the script for this film had the industrialist and the doctor getting their comeuppance in the finale. Honestly, it's better that they don't. While they were scamming Joe, the fact is that they gave him his life back. Whether or not this is with intent, the doctor and the industrialist serve in the story as both the villain, and as Joe's savior. - 40732
What makes this one any different? Well to begin with, Big and Turner and Hooch were fun comedies, but Joe Vs. The Volcano is something more. It's a great comedy, yes, but it's more than that, even. The movie is sort of a Rocky story. It contains the meaning of life. Hanks begins as an everyman, selling his time for, as he puts it, "Three hundred dollars a week".
The film starts off with Joe slaving away at a miserable, miserable job. He works in a dismal factory, a disgusting, repugnant block of concrete in the middle of a field of mud, where flickering fluorescent lights, he believes, are giving him cancer. Bo Welch, the set designer for Beetlejuice, created this ugly masterpiece of depression as well as the look of the rest of the film.
The hypochondriac Joe quits this job when he's told by a doctor that he has a "Brain Cloud" which will kill him in five or six months. Into Joe's life comes an industrialist who offers him the opportunity to "Live like a king and die like a man".
The industrialist, played wonderfully in his one scene by Lloyd Bridges, will finance Joe's trip and all the luxuries he can indulge in if he'll go to the Waponi Woo and jump into a volcano. The industrialist uses this island for mining, but the people of the island are fearful of the volcano and believe that it needs a human sacrifice every hundred years lest it blow up and kill them all. The chief, finding nobody among his own cowardly people to do the deed, needs Joe to do it.
This scenario gives Joe his life back. From here he becomes more daring, more appreciative of the human experience. Therein lies what makes this movie so special, it's core philosophy: Stop worrying and enjoy life for what it is, because it's really pretty great.
This feeling, this almost boring, understated wisdom also drives the look and feel of the movie. If you haven't seen this movie, you've never seen a movie that looks like this. It seems to take place in some kind of second cousin fantasy reflection of our own world.
Spoiler Alert: The original draft of the script for this film had the industrialist and the doctor getting their comeuppance in the finale. Honestly, it's better that they don't. While they were scamming Joe, the fact is that they gave him his life back. Whether or not this is with intent, the doctor and the industrialist serve in the story as both the villain, and as Joe's savior. - 40732
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