Teddy Bears Picnic covers an annual encampment of prominent male leaders at the Zambezi Glen, a thinly-veiled reference to the Bohemian Grove.Teddy Bears Picnic covers an annual encampment of prominent male leaders at the Zambezi Glen, a thinly-veiled reference to the Bohemian Grove.Teddy Bears Picnic covers an annual encampment of prominent male leaders at the Zambezi Glen, a thinly-veiled reference to the Bohemian Grove.
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Its not a good film. It's not very funny.
But what's worse is that this is little more apologist piece on behalf of long term Bohemian Grove guest Harry Shearer.
Quite how this film managed to get made leads to some very worrying thoughts. Viewers might want to catch Alex Jones's "The Order of Death" for an alternative view of the goings on at Bohemian Grove.
But politics aside, is it anything more than a grown up a very of Animal House? I'm sorry to say it's not. In fact to be honest, it makes Animal House look like Citizen Kane by comparison and I can only imagine this would be because of the poor concept at the start of production.
Not very original at all.
So would I rent it (again)? No. Would I watch it on TV? (not again!).
But what's worse is that this is little more apologist piece on behalf of long term Bohemian Grove guest Harry Shearer.
Quite how this film managed to get made leads to some very worrying thoughts. Viewers might want to catch Alex Jones's "The Order of Death" for an alternative view of the goings on at Bohemian Grove.
But politics aside, is it anything more than a grown up a very of Animal House? I'm sorry to say it's not. In fact to be honest, it makes Animal House look like Citizen Kane by comparison and I can only imagine this would be because of the poor concept at the start of production.
Not very original at all.
So would I rent it (again)? No. Would I watch it on TV? (not again!).
Oh my, I can\t believe I sat through this. This is unbelievably horrible and excruciatingly boring to say the best.
Here is what is on my cassette box cover...Teddy Pears Picnic. For 51 weeks a year, they run the country. For 1 week they run amok.
This is horrible. It is pointless and is drearingly so painstakingly utterly boring. If you take any advice from somebody who loves watching movies...take this advice. Either shoot yourself in the head or jump in-front of a speeding train or truck before you watch this film;m.
Film? Did I call this crud film? Where's the humor? Where's the running amok? Where are the floozies? What is so special about this garbage that it has a box cover? NOTHING!!!!!!!!!!!! If I ever go camping in the woods and need something to use so I can make a path, I will certainly tear this cassette apart and stretch out the tape for as long as I can to find my way back.
Is it bad? Oh yeah...is it funny? NOOOOOOOOOOO. Is there a point to this cinematic schlock? Try to find one and you win an award.
I could go on and on about how crappy this is and what a waste of time it is, in fact I had more fun writing this review than I had watching 2 minutes of this.
Horrible in terms of story, comedy, action and anything which is supposed to result in a movie.
This is below substandard and hits an all new low. Oh...you don't believe me? Try it...go on...I dare you. Spend the money...go on...I double dare you.
Oh, now you get my point...yeah, well you damn well better listen to me next time I tell you how bad a video is. It's that bad....and boring.
If you have the guts to sit through this and figure it all out and find any humour in it...then YOU are a better person than me and I will be forever indebted to you.
Misleading box-cover and synopsis allowed me to think that after an hour of total nothing that this may get better. Oh yeah...right.
Even the best drugs and crates of alcohol and a pipe struck to my forehead at full force will not make me change my mind.
If you truly hate or despise somebody for any reason and you fell so compelled to harm them mentally, treat them to a viewing of this 2 times without letting them leave for any reason. They will truly suffer one of the worst painstaking injuries ever known to man.
When captured enemies must be forced to infinite amounts of pain...this is their torture.
Oh and if you got through the end of this review...you just enjoyed yourself thousand of times more than sitting through the entire duration of this nasty, vile piece of ughhhhhhhhhhhh.
Here is what is on my cassette box cover...Teddy Pears Picnic. For 51 weeks a year, they run the country. For 1 week they run amok.
This is horrible. It is pointless and is drearingly so painstakingly utterly boring. If you take any advice from somebody who loves watching movies...take this advice. Either shoot yourself in the head or jump in-front of a speeding train or truck before you watch this film;m.
Film? Did I call this crud film? Where's the humor? Where's the running amok? Where are the floozies? What is so special about this garbage that it has a box cover? NOTHING!!!!!!!!!!!! If I ever go camping in the woods and need something to use so I can make a path, I will certainly tear this cassette apart and stretch out the tape for as long as I can to find my way back.
Is it bad? Oh yeah...is it funny? NOOOOOOOOOOO. Is there a point to this cinematic schlock? Try to find one and you win an award.
I could go on and on about how crappy this is and what a waste of time it is, in fact I had more fun writing this review than I had watching 2 minutes of this.
Horrible in terms of story, comedy, action and anything which is supposed to result in a movie.
This is below substandard and hits an all new low. Oh...you don't believe me? Try it...go on...I dare you. Spend the money...go on...I double dare you.
Oh, now you get my point...yeah, well you damn well better listen to me next time I tell you how bad a video is. It's that bad....and boring.
If you have the guts to sit through this and figure it all out and find any humour in it...then YOU are a better person than me and I will be forever indebted to you.
Misleading box-cover and synopsis allowed me to think that after an hour of total nothing that this may get better. Oh yeah...right.
Even the best drugs and crates of alcohol and a pipe struck to my forehead at full force will not make me change my mind.
If you truly hate or despise somebody for any reason and you fell so compelled to harm them mentally, treat them to a viewing of this 2 times without letting them leave for any reason. They will truly suffer one of the worst painstaking injuries ever known to man.
When captured enemies must be forced to infinite amounts of pain...this is their torture.
Oh and if you got through the end of this review...you just enjoyed yourself thousand of times more than sitting through the entire duration of this nasty, vile piece of ughhhhhhhhhhhh.
I love it, IMDb says: if you liked this title, we recommend "Chupacabra Terror".
I just got done watching Alex Jones' Order of Death where he talks about this film by Sheerer. I cant wait to rent it and see Mr. Burns' take on this "innocent gathering" of pedophiles in klan robes worshipping a giant Owl, should be a solid laugh.
I need 10 lines of text. My favorite role by Sheerer is in Blood and Concrete: A Love Story. Besides that, he has made me laugh numerous other times. Sadly, he going to make me laugh now for all the wrong reasons. The Bohemian Grove is a sick and twisted place, anyone caught defending it doesn't pass the laugh test.
I just got done watching Alex Jones' Order of Death where he talks about this film by Sheerer. I cant wait to rent it and see Mr. Burns' take on this "innocent gathering" of pedophiles in klan robes worshipping a giant Owl, should be a solid laugh.
I need 10 lines of text. My favorite role by Sheerer is in Blood and Concrete: A Love Story. Besides that, he has made me laugh numerous other times. Sadly, he going to make me laugh now for all the wrong reasons. The Bohemian Grove is a sick and twisted place, anyone caught defending it doesn't pass the laugh test.
This film adds up to much less than the sum of its parts, and by parts I'm referring to the fantastic and star-studded cast. With Fred Willard, Michael McKean, George Wendt, Bob Einstein, the guy from Sledge Hammer (sorry I forget his name but he's great) and a ton of other people I am surprised at how bad the movie turned out. I think the big problem was with the script (lacks laughs and isn't a very meaty story, it's just a bunch of gags one after another and they aren't that funny) and mostly with the production value, the sound and video are of very poor quality. This cast deserves better and so does Harry Shearer, who also wrote and directed this. Maybe he was busy working on the Simpsons or something but he is usually much more funny than this movie would have you believe. 3 out of 10.
I agree with the prior comment that this film is in the spirit of Christopher Guest's movies, but it does not quite reach those standards (although, of course, that is setting the bar pretty high). Certainly an amusing film, but one wishes that perhaps the actors had been given some flexibilty to show their comedic muscle (particulary John Micheal Higgins, whose improv in Best in Show was off the charts). Unfortunately, it's not only the fire that fizzles out a little towards the end. Overall though, clearly superior to most comedies out there (and some great satire re TV news), but with someone like Shearer and a cast of this quality one enters the cinema with such high hopes it is easy to be disappointed.
Did you know
- TriviaKenneth Mars' last theatrical film before his death in 2011.
- GoofsIn the end credits, the word "Equipment" is misspelled as "Equiptment"
- Crazy creditsRecorded at "The Village"
- ConnectionsReferenced in Dinner for Five: Episode #4.11 (2005)
- SoundtracksTeddy Bears' Picnic
Written by John W. Bratton and Jimmy Kennedy (as James B. Kennedy)
Arranged and performed by Judith Owen
Courtesy Warner Chappel Music (ASCAP)
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