"No Pain, but There’s Lots to Gain"

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What You Need To Know:
NOVOCAINE is exciting and funny. It gives viewers a real roller-coaster ride. Also, the hero risks life and limb to save the woman he loves. However, NOVOCAINE has lots of strong gratuitous foul language and some cringe-inducing intense violence. For example, the hero sticks his hand into a fryer of burning oil to grab a robber’s gun. So, MOVIEGUIDE® finds NOVOCAINE excessive and unacceptable.
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NOVOCAINE is a comic thriller about an assistant bank manager with a medical condition that makes him impervious to pain, who risks life and limb to rescue a female bank teller, who’s been kidnapped by three murderous bank robbers. NOVOCAINE has some pretty funny and exciting parts with some surprisingly heartfelt moments, but the movie has lots of strong foul language and some cringe-inducing extreme violence that drop NOVOCAINE into the excessive, unacceptable box.
The movie opens with bank accountant Nathan Caine getting ready for work. At work, Nate has long had a crush on a pretty young bank teller named Sherry. Nate is a reclusive video game nerd and homebody. He and Sherry have lunch together where Sherry tries to draw him out of his shell. She’s surprised to learn that Nate can’t eat solid foods because he has a medical condition that makes him impervious to feeling pain. For example, he can’t take a bite of her pie at the diner they go to because he might bite off his tongue.
They make a date to attend Sherry’s new art gallery show. However, when he takes her there, he runs into the guy who used to bully him in high school because of his condition. The bully and his friends used to call Nate “Novocaine,” a play on his last name.
The next day at the bank, three masked bank robbers hold up the bank. One of them murders the bank manager and threatens Sherry to get Nate to open the bank vault. The police soon arrive, however, and the robbers take Sherry hostage to escape in two cars while shooting two police officers.
Nate takes one of the cop’s cars and speeds after the car with Sherry in it. He spends the rest of the day trying to save Sherry. He enlists the help of a guy who plays online video games with him. A surprise twist complicates Nate’s effort. There’s also the problem of the guy who killed the bank manager. He’s a real psychopath.
NOVOCAINE is exciting and funny. Also, the hero risks life and limb to save the girl he loves. So, there are many twists and turns to the plot, including the big twist in the middle, which changes everything for Nate and Sherry. Will true love prevail? Assuming, of course, that both Nate and Sherry survive the day.
That said, NOVOCAINE has lots of strong foul language and some painful looking violence. For instance, in one scene, Nate fights one of the robbers in a restaurant kitchen. During the fight, Nate knocks the robber’s gun into a small vat of frying oil. Carrying a knife, the robber then comes at Nate. So, to save his life, Nate sticks his hand into the burning oil to grab the gun and kill the robber. Also, one scene implies that the romantic couple sleeps together.
The gratuitous foul language and some of the violence in NOVOCAINE are extreme. So, MOVIEGUIDE® ultimately finds the movie excessive and unacceptable.