I remember watching this movie back in the day when it was first released and I do remember it as being a rather funny and entertaining movie. Then I haven't seen it since, so I took it upon myself to sit down in 2017 and watch it a second time around......And the movie was every bit as funny and entertaining as I remembered it to be.I had totally forgotten that Jessica Alba was in this movie, so it was a nice surprise to see her here as a young actress and in a movie such as this. Just as it was a nice surprise to see Vivica A. Fox in the movie as well.The storyline in "Idle Hands" is entertaining, and very simple to follow. So the movie demands very little from the viewer, aside from you just leaning back to enjoy the show. It is about Anton Tobias (played by Devon Sawa) whom is wasting his life and youth with being high 24-7, when he one day wakes up to find his parents dead and that his right hand has become possessed and hellbent on a murderous rampage. With the help of his friends Mick (played by Seth Green) and Pnub (played by Elden Henson) they must find a way to stop the murdering hand.The special effects are quite alright, aside from a few times where it becomes quite obvious that it is CGI effects. You can notice that in particular on some scenes where there is a great different in coloration on Seth Green and Elden Henson. But overall good effects.There are some good moments and good laughs to be had throughout the course of the movie. And the movie also had a rather interesting and good choice of music to go with it.All in all then "Idle Hands" is a fun movie to watch, and it scores a 6 out of 10 stars from me.

Devon Sawa from the much known horror film final destination stars in this movie as a young boy who's at home when his parents weirdly disappear and there is a murderous serial killer loose around,suddenly,this boy finds out his hand is possessed and soon goes on a night of mayhem with his dead friends(Seth Green)and the love of his life(Jessica Alba). OK it is really silly but I honestly loved this film,it was such a funny stoner movie,Devon Sawa gave a hilarious performance as well as Seth Rogen. This is hard enough to find on DVD,I don't actually think I saw it on DVD threw my whole life..huh. Idle hands is a funny stoner horror comedy starring Devon Sawa,Seth Rogen and Jessica Alba and I forget his name but that guy from American wedding and date movie.

Insane horror comedy is all go-for-broke nonsense, but its energy and stoner hi-jinx are often (or were to me, and obviously a cult audience that has accepted this into their fold; I can see fans of Pineapple Express enjoying this specifically) irresistible. The main "heroes" of the film have lives almost consistently devoted to weed and television. Anton (Devon Sawa, with an exhaustively physical performance) awakens to find his hand uncontrollably violent and always looking to kill...it is possessed by an evil that has been moving from lazy body to lazy body, waiting to take an innocent soul to hell. That plot alone will certainly leave a chunk of people cashing their chips, but with a pace which doesn't take a smoke break (although the stoners always look to take a smoke from any kind of bong pipe (whether it has tits or was built in auto shop class)), add enthusiasm in the performances, and remove any remote sense of pretension; Idle Hands could very well be an alternative on Halloween. Set during a long Halloween day for poor Sawa, he unfortunately has a psychotic hand that kills his parents (he doesn't even realize it!) and eventually his two best stoner friends, Pnub (Elden Henson) and Mick (Seth Green). Setting in motion the serious threat to anyone it comes across, eventually Anton severs the damned hand from his arm, but all that really does is allow the cursed body part to move freely. Meanwhile, the hand sets its sights on choosing the smokin' babe next door (Jessica Alba) as the victim to take to the "netherworld". Also Vivica A Fox shows up in the plot as a type of "spiritual warrior" with a dagger that will eliminate the hand if stabbed by her. She calls herself a "druidic high priestess" to a metal music loving gearhead (Jack Noseworthy) wanting to get into her pants; he also wants to get back his ford truck stolen by Anton so he (along with Pnub and Mick) can rescue Alba from the hand at a Halloween high school costume dance (with musical group The Offspring performing I Wanna Be Sedated, by the Ramones).Hectic is a word I'd apply to the plot shenanigans, as Sawa starts his day innocent enough: just trying to score some weed. Alba digs him; eventually, after Sawa somehow subdues the hand, Alba even makes out (having invited him into her room) with him! But after burying a broken beer bottle in the skull of Green, and sending a spiraling saw blade from the basement that decapitates Henson, such a make-out seems rather fitting to the whole crazy movie. I mean, the two dead pals decide to give Heaven a pass, returning to their corpses, re-animating with their same loose, chill personalities intact. This alone should let you know what kind of movie this is. One scene has Henson's body holding his head upside down while he weeds out with the smoke exiting the neck wound! Deciding to use duct tape, eventually Henson's head is "sort of" re-attached!Getting to see the lead singer of The Offspring "scalped", two incompetent cops sewing-needle stabbed and face-shocked by a taser, a hand being cooked in a microwave, and a poor cat hurled by its tale out of the window of a house all are indicative of the kind of madcap horror silliness you are in store for. If anything, the talking, decaying corpses of Sawa's friends quipping up a storm while he's frantically searching for a severed killer hand on the loose provide enough incentive to determine just how much absurdity in one movie you can stand. Evil Dead II is echoed here, no doubt. This was right before Sawa would participate in the beginning of the popular Final Destination franchise. Here, Sawa tirelessly moves about, really getting into his demanding role which asks him to be on the go almost from the get-go. Green and Henson's slackers will certainly appeal to a type of audience. Alba was right on the cusp of being a regular fixture in the fantasies of a masturbating generation...she is even in just bra and panties at one point. When Alba opens her house to a rather bloody Sawa, in just a robe and undergarments, I could just visualize the slobber of quite a few horny guys. Sawa's work making the hand seem alive before lopping it off (Green obliges his wound with a hot iron because "that's what friends are for") is spirited to say the least. The old school practical effects and some CGI as finesse are impressive; Green and Henson are quite a pair for such effects.

Idle Hands has it's high and low points and ultimately it's not bad!. The film is pretty shallow in terms of plot and character development but then again a horror comedy spoof like this it was never going to be deep in either of those aspects. It has a lot of cliché 90's teen themes; High school buddies, a slacker main character, two weed smoking side kicks, the hot girl next door etc, etc so originality is not really one of the films fortes. Whilst not hilarious there were a few scenes which I did laugh at but this isn't a film I'd expect to be as funny on a second or third watch for example. There were a few amusing kill/gore scenes but this is more slapstick then out and out gore. The cast were okay on the whole but the main character wasn't a great performance but the support cast were good enough for a film like this. It's by no means the best film of this genre but if you just want to sit back and watch a film that's light on plot but a fine for an evening in front of the TV then give it a go. 6/10