A horrible portrayal of Arizona.

Maybe it was Utah?

Most people anywhere don't talk like hicks. Does that mean that no character in a movie should ever talk like that? The entire film is tongue-in-cheek. I can understand you not finding it funny; the Coen brothers quirkiness is not for everybody. But it's a satire; I certainly didn't draw any negative conclusions about the state of Arizona from the movie.

I didn't find "Raising Arizona" funny at all.

It was a senseless film that depicted people from Arizona as being rural hayseed types. Most Arizonans live in urban areas, and don't talk like hicks.

They got a starter home in "suburban Tempe" - which showed a few little trailers in the middle of a desert. In reality, Tempe is a suburb of Phoenix with a very active nightlife, and a diverse population of many ethnic cultures. It's not anything at all like it's portrayed in the movie.

According to H.I.'s narration, the Arizona quints were the biggest thing to hit the state since the Hoover Dam. Personally, I'd like to hit the director of this idiotic film with something big!

How this movie earned big bucks at the box office and beyond, I'll never understand the reasons.

if you've ever been east of the 101 on Apache you'd see that what I like to call a "shift" in demographic. Suburban becomes trailer trash faster than you can say 'coyote'.

"When devils will the blackest sins put on,
They do suggest at first with heavenly shows."

This is the kind of film that takes 2 -3 watch's to "get it". I'll admit that I didn't find it all that great the first time I saw it, but when I saw the 2nd time, I checkled a little more. Now that I've seen it a thousand times, I love it. And I love their portrayal of Arizona redneck life. I understand that not everyone is like that. I live in Texas, and everyone outside the state thinks we ride horses to work. Are you kidding me? I don't even know anybody that has horses. But that stereotype doesn't bother me. Get over it dude!

Yeah MOST don't. They were depicting a lowerclass white trash sect of society. They have them everywhere. Upstate NY, the south, the midwest....everywhere. That's why it's funny. Lighten up

I am from Arizona. This movie was hilarious, In my opinion.
I get the humor from a bystander stand point, such as when the conversation goes

"Where are you from?" "Oh, Im from Arizona" "Oh...I went to the Grand Canyon one time"
Yeah me too Twice. I get it, not alot goes on here. When people think about AZ, myself included, its a desolate wasteland. It really isn't but that is the commanly preconcived notion about the area, so showing Tempe as a few trailers was just like a shock funny, like "What the hell?"

Yes tempe is a goofy fantasy place in this movie but don't tell me you haven't driven through little random podunk towns in the middle of nowhere, that were basically the same damn place as RA tempe.
We do have a crapton of furniture stores in my town, complete with the bad commercials. We have the Cacti, we have the dirt, we have the awesome shaped state.

Me and my girlfriend and a through discussion after watching this movie about the "Arizona Accent" I maintain that when Im tired and lazy I to sometimes have that sort of drawl on my words but not in everyday speech, but now I think I will take it and own the southwestern arizona accent

Admit it dude, not many people know that much about Arizona other than what they see in movies, and the only movies that jump to mind are parts of Jerry Maguire (Effing ant problems), Old Westerns, The Getaway (the finale shot in my home town, Woohoo!), Biodome, and that movie Held Up I think, so it is really easy to hyperbolize things to a gross extreme. Im sure Arkansas isn't like Southern Comfort or Deliverence, Cali isn't like every movie from there and I am pretty sure not every cop movie set in Japan is just like Japan (I thought they didn't have guns)

Movies are never accurate, this one is kind of mean about it in a funny way.

Why do the smart kids quote Citizen Kane?

I don't give a *beep* how it portrayed people from Arizona. Also, your preferred style of comedy is terribad. "Liar, Liar?" I mean, seriously, come the *beep* on, man. After reading that I think the Coen's were a little generous in their interpretation of the mental capacity of Arizotards.