Very well executed

Such a frustrating disappointment

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

I originally saw this in the theater and loved it! I was too young to have seen this sort of double feature this film is a loving homage to, but I did grow up watching a ton of these sorts of exploitation films on VHS, which re-watching this film brought back those video store memories. Maybe for a home video release of this double feature they should have added some cheesy Vestron Video opening and replaced the missing reels and burnouts with VHS tape splices and tracking errors. Or maybe that's another Rodriguez/Tarantino film for another day? I'd recently watched both of these films separately and gave "Planet Terror" ***** and "Death Proof" ***1/2. "Gindhouse" in it's original theatrical presentation as a double feature, complete with mock trailers for fictional movies, falls somewhere in between. Edgar Wright's "Don't" trailer is the best. It looks most like it was a real movie and has a hilariously coda at the end, but a close runner-up is Eli Roth's "Thanksgiving" as a very funny send up of holiday themed slasher films (i.e. "Halloween," "Mother's Day," "April Fool's Day," "Black Christmas," etc…), but Rodriguez's "Machete" trailer and Rob Zombie's "Werewolf Women of the SS" are also hilarious send ups of various exploitation film sub-genres. I also greatly appreciated the faux grain in the "Grindhouse" version over the cleaned up individual releases. As to the merits of the two films on their own, see my previous individual reviews.

This was a major box office bomb. The Box Office Gross was $25,000,000 but by the time advertising was factored in it lost over $50,000,000. Now excluding that do we have a good film (s) here? Well "NO". To me the film goes on way too long. Each of these films should have been less than 90 minutes. Both of them had scenes that went on way too long. There is also the obligatory "Rape" or "Fear of Rape" that Quentin Tarantino puts in his films! This time its in "Planet Terror" and he is the villain Regardless the man is talented but why he puts rape in his films makes me pass on seeing anything else He will do for now on!"Planet Terror" is the weakest of the 2 films presented here. The story is stupid. I know that was the pint but had this film was made with a low budget film would have worked better."Death-proof" is good but goes on way too long. Quentin loves talky talky dialog and again this film would have been better served if the film was made with just 1 or 2 takes. What was so suppose to be a "Low Budget" homage was basically a slick looking action movie that has a 1970's vibe! The "Fake" coming attractions are very good and work the best. "Machete" was later turned into a real film. This film was a disappointment for many reasons! Too long being the most irksome!

It was the best of films it was the worst of films.....Planet Terror - Everything you could ever want from a "Grindhouse" film: action, gore, hot babes, explosions, plus the coolest characters and an overly-fantastic plot. My adrenaline was pumping throughout and I couldn't have been more content and satisfied with my ticket purchase.Death Proof - It's like having lunch with my aunt and her ugly friends. This was not Grindhouse at all. The energy that was built up from the A-movie was lost very quickly in this B-movie. I LOVE QT usually, but I can't defend this ISHTAR. This has everything you DON'T want in Grindhouse: ugly women, long-boring conversations, predictability, and characters I care nothing about.Overall, the movie is worth seeing, but I'd highly recommend to everyone just get the DVD of Planet Terror and skip Death Proof altogether.

I'm not sure I can write a 1000 words or ten lines about this movie, but I will try. It is a total piece of junk. Crap disguised as art and enjoyed by the multitude of pretentious people who suffer from the "tyranny of being cool." It has lousy acting (I've seen better at middle school plays), poor cinematography (makes "Blair Witch" look like "Lawrence of Arabia"), stupid story lines (appears to have been written by a committee of 10 yr old psychopaths) stupid "cutiness" (the dumb trailers), and all this in name of emulating 1950s bad horror flicks. To begin with, why emulate junk? I know that the majority of IMDb reviewers really love this type of garbage (Check the ratings of "Snatch," "Pulp Fiction,", etc.), but this really goes beyond bad taste. Hopefully, future generations will be able to see this type of truly meaningless scatology for what it really is.