YOU DON'T KNOW JACK MOVIES Reviews

It's not the best of the YDKJ classic games. The questions are harder and dated. And some require details from some rather obscure films. It still has the awesome faux game show presentation, but so do the other YDKJ games. Go with those first.

I worked at a video store for almost a decade and like movie trivia. The difficulty level on this game is "Well above average" to "Well that's obscure".

Although still fun like the other classic YDKJ games, it is only worth getting for completion as too much of the trivia relies on obscure movie trivia. Even as someone who has seen a lot of movies, this one is quite difficult but it still has some charm along with the other classic YDKJ games.

nearly a good quiz game. like the idea. great voice over but with out much funny material. the timers combined with A high level of voice over skill that lack joke content soon becomes abrasive and annoying! the way the questions are written combined with the all out emphasis narration mean that its not so much the question your figuring out but what the hell he trying to say in the 1st place. so if i dont want to hear the 'right' answer where is the skip button? also the films didnt seem that relevant to me, for eg you know what my good friend jack burton always says about the eye of the storm?? open yr eyes and watch some GOOD movies, gone with the wind SUCKS and i am happy not to know shit about it or its boring friends.SKIP BUTTON!. Over all i found my answers to be, dont care or shut the hell up already! pretty glad i dont know about alot of these film tbh. couldve been good if they.. watched some better movies. wrote some gags and stuff it wasnt a bitchy nag (like 25% less) S-K-I-P B-U-T-T-O-N!! And why the hell put A timer on category selection? (this ended the fun for me!) it would be good to see these more inventive selections, it seems that they are mostly what the jibberish vs fact premise derives from, why limit the introduction to the subject matter, let us take it on before you slag us out the door with a gob barrage of pebble dash shrapnel! iam not having problems jumping out of a plane here, IAM JUST SELECTING!

Yes, the references top out at 1997, yes it runs in a tiny resolution, and yes, there's no online and you have to share a keyboard, but this is the only YDKJ where I have a chance at getting most of the questions right and I'll take it. Would love if they did a movie exclusive version in a future Jackbox game.

Hm, how should I put this? I hate it. So, I liked the first few You Don't Know Jack games in my youth, and always felt that they posed interesting questions paired with good humor, even when I was younger. I also love movies and have watched several thousand, so this should be good for me, right? Uh, no. I've read some people's complaints on here about the interface, and they are plain wrong. It's fine, aside from not adjusting to resolutions above 1024x768, doesn't really matter. The real problem is the obscurity of the questions. As an example, I played a random 21 questions game, and in order to finish the game with a score above ZERO, the winning player would have to be intimately familiar with: Our Man Flint Reality Bites Song of the South She Wore a Yellow Ribbon Myra Breckenridge all of the seven dwarf's names most titles of Jerry Lewis' filmography and NO ONE I was playing with got a score over ZERO. So, yeah, fun game, maybe, if you're Leonard Maltin, and you're playing with Gene Shalit and Ken Jennings. But even for the average movie buff, let alone the average person, this is just silly.

I bought this game for 1$ on sale so I really don't mind it. However, this game does not hold up well at all, questions are pretty much blind guesses 3/4 times because of how old and random the movies are. The game doesn't even have a settings page, so your stuck watching it on a tiny little box in the middle of your screen, which there is a workaround but its not even worth the effort. I personally think this game is dead and doesn't need to be played, it had its run when it was released but now it just doesn't compare to any of the other amazing Jackbox games. (NOTE: You can not play this with people who aren't watching the game in person, there is no jackbox.tv compatibility.)

If you don't know what movie you should watch - this game can give you some options lol.

[b]you don't know jack[/b] is the best trivia game series of all time. this one is from 1997, so it's pretty outdated by now and [b]it's always been us-centric[/b] (though with movies both are less of an issue than in other entries), so you'll either find it very challenging or very frustrating if you're from somewhere else. or a piece of cake because you know all the answers. it's your typical multiple choice deal, but there are [b]a ton of other question types over the series[/b], like dis or dat (or sometimes both) or gibberish question. you can play a game of [b]7 or 21 questions[/b], some question types only appear in the full run, but they both end with the [b]jack attack[/b]. there's a clue and you have to match things accordingly. [b]local multiplayer is available for up to 3 players[/b], you can even screw each other by buzzing in and forcing another player to answer. save for a few occasions way back when, I've always played it alone and always had a blast. it's all [b]presented as a tv show[/b] (there was an actual short-lived tv show as well, should be on youtube), there's some behind-the-scenes chatter at the beginning, fake commercials at the end (don't you dare skip them!), fake money to win and all that, and [b]the writing is fantastic[/b]. if it was a simple text-based thing, it'd still be excellent stuff, so much creativity, but [b]the voiceovers take it to a whole new level[/b]. lots of characters, one-off or recurring, great hosts, also one-off or recurring, and again, the whole thing is just great. [b]the attention to detail and variety elevates it even further.[/b] sure, if you play long enough, you'll see repeated questions (though I don't think the game will show them again until you've seen most of them), but there are a lot of different ways to introduce questions, a lot of remarks if you chose the wrong answer or hesitate to enter your name (in which case the host will give you one) or pick a category or answer, a relevant joke for most choices, right or wrong, and of course the commercials, man... the game also starts differently based on the time and date, so on certain holidays, early in the morning, late at night, on friday evening, and so on. and for answers that need typing, you can try some profanities, see what good they do. [b]there was nothing done to modernize the game[/b] for the steam release, so it runs in 640x480 (a very tiny window with a black background, you can set the .exe to run in that resolution or something closer and fill the screen more with the actual game), there's no steam overlay, there's only a single volume setting (it's fine in this case, though lowering it completely didn't let me raise it again until a restart) and controls aren't rebindable. each player gets a buzz hotkey scattered on the keyboard, the screw is the same for everybody, and if you play alone, no need to buzz and space works just fine for that too. I literally don't know jack and I've been having fun with the series since it first came out, most of it played alone. if you don't mind questions about older stuff (or that's your specialty) and can handle a lower resolution, definitely pick these up.

This YDKJ is for the hard core movie goer. Wow, it is hard... And I watch/watched a lot of movies in my 40 years on this planet. A challenge for sure. I would recommend only for HARD CORE MOVIE TRIVIA crazyness!