Waste of time

The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

I just found this on Netflix, and so my brother and I watched it. We didn't regret it. Kel Mitchell played his character very well, and I always loved "I'm a dude, he's a dude..." and "Welcome to Good Burger, home of the..." and Kenan Thompson did good with Dexter, he actually did look like a high-schooler back then. The story wasn't rushed at all, it played out well. The characters were spot on. The humor was too hard to resist, it was so good! I found myself laughing at the jokes. This movie is just too good to say no to, it's that awesome. Do yourself a favor and watch this movie. It's on Netflix, so if you've finished catching up with Stranger Things, go watch this. You won't regret a thing!

Synopsis: Dexter and Ed quickly become friends after Dexter is forced to get a summer Job at Good Burger where Ed is their head cashier. Dexter, in a pinch for money, is looking for any penny he can get his hands on to pay back damages to his mother's vehicle that he was illegally driving and crashed at the start of summer. As the two work together at Good Burger, the company begins to go down hill as competition, Mondo Burger, has opened up across the street. In order to save the business and get Good Burger back on the map, Dexter joins forces with his new friend Ed, putting some of Ed's delicious secret sauce on the burgers enticing more customers. Dexter is all in on the idea, just as long as he can get a percentage of every burger sold. Soon customers are flocking to Good Burger to get the new and improved Good Burger now with Ed's Secret Sauce. All is well until Dexter starts to feel guilt for taking portions of the burgers proceeds when he had nothing to do with the creation of the secret sauce, as the proceeds are rightfully Eds. Later on the two begin to develop a genuine friendship and find themselves in more and more antics trying to beat out the competition, Mondo Burger, as the movie continues.Review: Good Burger is a classic, the two main actors as well as the main characters, Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell, are no stranger to each other as they have had a successful career together on the Nickelodeon Network. The two co-starred in their own TV show, Kenan and Kel, which aired from 1996 to 2000. However before their own TV show their roots together sprang up on a skit-based, comedy show entitled "All That" on the Nickelodeon Network as well. This is just the beginning of the similarities between the actors and their comedic routes. However, in reference to the movie Good Burger does not deserve its low ratings on websites like IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes, because it employs the same lines of Comedy, and follows the same direction as TV shows like "Kenan and Kel" and "All That" which earned significantly higher ratings.On Rotten Tomaoes, Good Burger received a 31 percent approval, and a 4.3 out of 10. Like wise on Internet Movie Database the movie scored a 5.1 out of 10. The show Kenan and Kel receives a much better rating on the same sites. On Internet movie database Kenan and Kel score a 7.4 out of 10. Furthermore All That is rated a 7.3 out of 10. What I don't understand is how the three can have the same roots and be very similar in nature but differ so much in audience perception.Good Burger, Kenan and Kel, and All That are similar in the way of structure. They are each Nickelodeon network specials. The general plot line for each Kenan and Kel episode the two join forces and come up with some "bright idea" employing a bunch of antics to get there along the way. All that functions differently as it is a skit based TV show in which the two star in skits together, but the general idea of dimwitted antics and laughable characters are the same in all three works. Most specifically the movie functions similarly to Kenan and Kel. Dexter and Ed join forces to try and save the Good Burger restaurant with Eds secret sauce. Along the way their antics lead them through funny scenes where the two find themselves in straight jackets in an insane asylum, on mini golf courses, and crashing through town as they make deliveries in the burger-mobile. The movie even incorporates the same punch lines from the actors show. Kenan is famous for his exclamations when things go wrong saying lines like "Whyyyyyy?" and "Awe Man!" These phrases are both recurrences in Good Burger. But lets not forget even the most basic similarity. The actors are the same. And this extends past just the two main characters, Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell. Actors from All That and Kenan and Kel make appearances in Good Burger playing minor and supporting roles. For example, Lori Beth Denberg and Josh Server are both actors on All That that also make guest appearances on Kenan and Kel, and played minor roles in Good Burger just to give the audience some more familiar faces (All).When I first started noticing all the similarities between the shows and the movie, I asked myself what made the two so similar and I found that it came in the way of leadership with the movie. Dan Schneider was the writer for Good Burger, and also played the small role as a character, Mr. Baily, the Manager of Good Burger, this name is no stranger to Nickelodeon because he is also the producer for Kenan and Kel. Consequently the movie Good Burger was written using the same style of comedy because writer Dan Schneider had been exposed to this style of comedy through producing Kenan and Kel.The question still remains, how can a movie like Good Burger score so poorly on the same databases that reviewed works like All That and Kenan and Kel so highly? Good Burger deserves a higher rating. At the minimum it should score in the 7 to 7.5 range just to be justifiably up to par with its companion TV shows that scored a 7.2 and above. I do agree that the audience for a film like Good Burger could be narrow, and that possibly such a movie is only supported by Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchel fans or a limited market of Nickelodeon fans. Regardless, having been reviewed by the same company there is no validation for such a significantly lower rating on one or the other when the two are so parallel.

Yes, I said great movie. Kenan and Kel are the Laurel and Hardy of the 90s. I wish they'd done more movies.This actually was the best movie I saw in 1997. Any movie with Abe Vigoda playing the world's oldest fast food worker has to be good. Besides that the musical scene set in the insane asylum, with Mr. George (P-Funk) Clinton himself leading line dancing mental patients, is classic.Yes, it's silly. Yes, it's frequently stupid. But it is funny. Your kids will like it too. "I'm a dude. He's a dude. She's a dude. 'Cause we're all dudes."

The cast of "All That" returns for good humor in the "Good Burger" a place similar to an old fashioned fast food restaurant. The comedy is terrific, the fun is non-stop, and though cliché, is a passer for kid and family comedy.A movie for all ages, this movie is meant to enjoy, laugh, and pretty much a lazy movie for a rainy day, as that's what I'd save this movie for, a rainy day. USA aired it today, and since I know that the cast of "All That" is in it, I thought that it might be a bit of a chuckle burner, but in good fun, as Keenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell (probably one of the best young duos of that time) were terrific together, the pieces came together, and everything worked out, and it made it into good family fun together with some lazy day work to get off the bad day.May I take your order?