Dark Roots: The Unauthorized Anna Nicole (2003 TV Movie) User Reviews

Hilarious

[kimcluff · 8/10 · 9 February 2007]

This is one of the funniest movies I have seen. This movie caught our attention as we were flipping by it on our way to something else. It was so funny, we never made it to what we were intending to watch. My husband and I laughed so hard, we kept having to rewind the DVR to hear what we had laughed over.

At first we were not sure that this movie was supposed to be funny, but soon we realized that there were too many "coincidences" to not be planned. To catch most of these, you have to watch the background closely. However, several were made very obvious, such as the discussion with the woman in bed (her aunt?) about drugs and then the camera pans to all of the prescription bottles sitting nearby.

It really isn't nice to make fun of people, but her family is so funny, I'm sure that Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato just couldn't help themselves. These guys are geniuses and they sure gave Christopher Guest a run for his money and they were even using real people.

Anna Nicole is a Goddess!

[cllrdr-1 · 28 February 2006]

If only Federico Fellini were still alive. He's the director who could truly do Anna Nicole Smith justice. But Fenton and Randy do a fine job anyway. An Utterly fascinating story of a larger than life (in more ways than one) personality. Clearly Marshall died a happy man.

While our heroine's troubles with her late husband's family (far trashier than the one she came from) "Dark Roots" is filled with all sorts of delightful details about two worlds few know -- the Super-Rich and the Super-Poor.

That Vicki got up and got out -- into the REALLY Big Time -- is utterly fascinating. This doesn't happened every day. And monsters like Marshall's family (who could have settled accounts with her years ago but hang onto every penny like grim death) don't happen every day either.

Stupid documentary about opportunistic idiots

[Youbetiam · 1/10 · 31 May 2003]

May contain minor spoilers:

I would like to say first off that I am not a big Anna Nicole fan, but after seeing the family she comes from I understand why she doesn't speak to them anymore. Between her judgemental step-father and money grubbing cousins she had ample reason to get away from them as fast as she could.

After seeing this documentary about a woman who marries for money, hides her bisexuality, and struts in a reality TV show on E!, I am convinced that Anna Nicole Smith is not the opportunistic one in her family. This documentary is all about borrowed fame. Anna's family agreed to do this movie so they could leech off their famous family member's fame because she wasn't letting them mooch off her money anymore.

As for the old man she married for money, I would just like to say that his family came off as tacky as Anna Nicole's family. I don't think anyone but Anna Nicole knows how she felt about the old man, and I don't think it's right for family members to get into marriages.

Overall I was annoyed by this documentary. I was annoyed by the rhyming songs between sections, I was annoyed by the money grubbing, and I was especially annoyed by Anna's cousin's wishing that Anna would have to come back home and live in oblivion, when they obviously don't want to live in oblivion themselves.

And a special shame to the Mexia Town Counsel for being uptight and closed-minded. I'm sorry, but Town Counsels should not be commenting on morality. It's the same as the US Government issuing an edict saying Christians are better than Buddhists. For crying out loud, whatever happened to the separation between church and state.