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Good Burger
Promotional Poster For Good Burger
Directed by	Brian Robbins
Produced by	Mike Tollin Brian Robbins
Written by	Dan Schneider
Starring	Kenan Thompson Kel Mitchell Sinbad Abe Vigoda Shar Jackson Dan Schneider Ron Lester Jan Schweiterman Josh Server
Music by	Stewart Copeland
Studio	Nickelodeon Movies
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date(s)	July 25, 1997
Running time	95 min.
Language	English
Budget	$9,000,000
Gross revenue	$23,712,993

Good Burger is a 1997 comedy film produced by Nickelodeon Movies and released by Paramount Pictures, directed by Brian Robbins and starring Kenan and Kel, featuring Sinbad, Shar Jackson, Abraham Vigoda, and Jan Schweiterman. The film was based on a recurring sketch on Nickelodeon's sketch show All That. When they do Good Burger skits on All That they must say, "Welcome to Good Burger, home of the Good Burger, can I take your order?" Carmen Electra, Shaquille O'Neal, and George Clinton also make cameo appearances. Good Burger was the second film to be produced by Nickelodeon Movies.

[edit] Plot

Ed (Kel Mitchell) is an idiotic fast food attendant who works at the titular restaurant Good Burger. After dreaming about talking burgers, Ed discovers that he is late for work. Upon making it to work, he finds that there is another restaurant named Mondo Burger being built just across the street from Good Burger, providing the possibility of being dangerous competition for Good Burger. However, the Good Burger manager, Mister Bailey (Dan Schneider), isn't worried. Meanwhile, Dexter Reed (Kenan Thompson) is a teenage slacker whose teacher is the mid-70's-to-early-80's, Black Panther, hippie environmentalist, blaxploitation flower child Mister Wheat (Sinbad). When the school year ends, Dexter believes he can spend the rest of his life partying. However, he crashes his mother's Nissan 300ZX into Mister Wheat's car, resulting in a confrontation between the two. Mister Wheat gives Dexter the repair bill for his car, forcing Dexter to get a summer job. Dexter initially finds work at the Mondo Burger under the fascist manager Kurt Bozwell (Jan Schweiterman). However, Dexter doesn't fit in with the other employees and is fired. Hoping to find work where his clear lack of talent and absolute lack of experience will do him well, Dexter goes to the Good Burger to drown his woes in milkshakes. Ed tries to convince Mister Bailey to give Dexter a job at the Good Burger. Though reluctant, Mister Bailey gives Dexter the job of making deliveries in the Burger Mobile. After Kurt personally visits the Good Burger and intimidates the employees, the Mondo Burger opens in an overblown fashion. The Good Burger employees discover that the Mondo Burgers are so successful because of their ridiculous size. Ed and Dexter become more acquainted with each other as Ed shoves grapes up his nose and becomes "Grape-Nose-Boy". It is revealed that Ed has created a special sauce that the other employees enjoy. The sauce is put on the burgers and marketed to the public, averting the Good Burger's demise. Dexter, hoping to pay off the repair bill for Mister Wheat's car, makes Ed sign a contract that entitles Dexter to 80% of the profits made on Ed's sauce. Meanwhile, Kurt is displeased at Good Burger's rising sales and sends a sexually attractive woman named Roxanne (Carmen Electra) to seduce Ed and obtain the secret formula for his secret sauce. However, her attempts are futile against Ed's astounding stupidity and ends up physically battered as a result. After Roxanne quits Mondo Burger, Ed and Dexter begin to suspect foul play, as they believe that Mondo Burger is using illegal chemicals to enlarge their burgers. Disguising themselves as women, they infiltrate Mondo Burger, where their suspicions are confirmed. However, they are subsequently caught and committed to a psychiatric hospital by Kurt. As Ed and Dexter plan a way to escape, Mondo Burger employees infiltrate Good Burger and insert shark poison into Ed's special sauce. Otis (Abe Vigoda), an elderly employee of Good Burger, discovers this plot and threatens to call the police, but is then committed to the same psychiatric hospital as Ed and Dexter. Organizing a synchronized dance number in the hospital to distract the guards, Ed, Dexter and Otis defenestrate their way out of the hospital and carjack an ice cream van in the hopes of making it back to the Good Burger before anyone is killed by the poison in the special sauce. Ed and Dexter manage to make it back to the Good Burger and explain to Mister Bailey about the poisoned burgers. Ed and Dexter then hatch a plan to break into Mondo Burger and expose their illegal practices. While Dexter distracts the employees inside, Ed overloads the Mondo Burgers with chemicals, causing them to explode. Their antics destroy the restaurant, crush Mister Wheat's car and result in Kurt's arrest. Ed is hailed as a hero as he rasps his incessant catchphrase "Welcome to Good Burger, home of the Good Burger. Can I take your order?".

[edit] Cast

[edit] Soundtrack

• 1."All I Want" - 702
• 2."That's the Way (It's Goin' Down)" - Mint Condition
• 3."I'll Be There for You" - Tracie Spencer
• 4."Keep On" - The Pharcyde
• 5."Friends" - Warren G
• 6."We're All Dudes" - Less Than Jake featuring Kel Mitchell
• 7."Man" - The Presidents of the United States of America
• 8."So-Cal V8" - Red Kross
• 9."Do Fries Go with That Shake" - Trulio Disgracias featuring De La Soul
• 10."(Not The) Greatest Rapper" - 1000 Clowns
• 11."Roxanne" - Spearhead
• 12."Knee Deep (The Deeper Mix)" - George Clinton featuring Digital Underground

[edit] Box office

The film was released on July 25, 1997 and had a budget (not including prints and advertising) of $9,000,000. It opened at #5 with $7,058,333 and in total, the film earned $23,712,993 in the US & Canada.

[edit] Deleted scenes

A scene not in the release, but made it into the trailers, includes a customer saying to Ed, "Give me a Good Shake", so Ed grabs him and shakes him. A deleted scene that Kel Mitchell wanted to put in the movie but the director said no to is when Dexter sees Mr. Wheat and his smashed car and Dexter says to Ed "Excuse me a second" Ed waits literally one second then follows Dexter. The UK video release was cut by 14s by the BBFC to remove a head-butting scene, despite the cinema release being uncut.

[edit] 2007 Nickelodeon premiere

In 2007, Nickelodeon revived Good Burger and showed it on Nickelodeon December 8, 2007. Before it was shown, Nickelodeon had two of the actors record over what they said in the previous film to censor it for kids. The first censor is when Otis says "I think I broke my ass". Nickelodeon censored it so he said "I think I broke my tail". The other is when the man in the mental institution (played by George Clinton) says "Ooh, this music sucks", which was censored to "Ooh, this music stinks". The actors' mouths almost clearly show the original lines, and closed captioning will reveal the original lines.

[edit] Critical reception

Good Burger received generally negative reviews from film critics, garnering a "Rotten" rating of 31% on Rotten Tomatoes. However it has become a sort of cult favorite for fans of the early to mid 1990s Nickelodeon.

[edit] External links

• Good Burger at the Internet Movie Database
• Good Burger at Allmovie
• Good Burger at Rotten Tomatoes