Why this film flopped in the theaters is beyond me. I watched completely enthralled as the plot twisted, and fell for the ride just as Harry Barber did.
Larry Flynt, by his own admission, is a hard man to love, the kind of guy that proclaims that a woman with sperm on her face is the summit of artistic beauty.
Kingpin is but the latest manifestation of the so-stupid-it’s-smart lowbrow gag-film, that venerable tradition inaugurated by National Lampoon’s Animal House.
The story of Larry Flynt, the most notorious name in American sleaze, is an amazing one, full of triumph, tragedy, controversy, sex, God, and utter absurdity.
In Kingpin, the latest from local boys the Farrelly brothers, Murray puts in one of his best performances since What About Bob?. Piled high with great cameos.