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Recently it was announced that Tom Green's marriage to Drew Barrymore was over after only six months. The reason given was the usual "Irreconcilable Differences" chestnut. I'd imagine those differences arose once Drew had seen her husbands first directorial effort which she has the misfortune of having a cameo in.
I was introduced to Tom Green's brand of comedy by a friend a couple of years ago. To be honest it's not really comedy, here you have a guy who's completely insane and get's his laughs from audience reaction to the bizarre and extreme things he does. Some of you may know him as the insane bearded guy in Charlie's Angels and Road Trip. His MTV show was kind of like Trigger Happy TV but far more extreme and at times incredibly cruel but something you had to deal with and at times laugh with. I suppose the highpoint was the time he took his parents car during the night and got an incredibly graphic
lesbian picture spraypainted onto the bodywork. I get the impression his parent's aren't their son's biggest fans.
Anyway that's the background but what about the film. Well a 3.6./10 rating on IMDB.Com should go some way to telling you the general concensus. If that wasn't enough then the limp US box office meant that the film got an extremely limited UK theatrical run before arriving on video weeks later.
Green plays Gord Brody, a slacker cartoonist who lives in his parents basement. He ventures off to Los Angeles to try and make a career much to the relief of his father Jim(Rip Torn), secretly Jim would like nothing more than to see Gord succeed but somehow he ignores his other son Freddy who is a far better bet. However soon Gordy is back home and that's when things take a horrible direction. Eventually Gordy spreads the rumour that his father sexually abuse's his brother Freddy although he doesn't mention the fact that Freddy is aged 25. So now you see what the title means.
I'd heard a lot of bad things about this film but I was willing to give it a go as I honestly believed that the majority of critics simply didn't get Tom Green. However after 87 minutes I was in total agreement with the majority. I'm not easily offended but when it comes to bad taste you are always teetering on the line. this film crosses it on nearly every occasion. During the film we see Gordy lick the severe leg wound of his friend, swing a newborn baby around a room by it's umbilical cord and gut a dead deer and goof around wearing it's skin as well as masturbate an elephant. Of course that's aside from the main theme of sexual abuse that Green seems to think is comedy gold.
The film is really a long line of insane and ultimately lame sketches that seem intent on shocking you to the very core of your sole. Green himself is just riffing on his own TV show persona and I can only say that Rip Torn must have been extremely desparate for work as he's far better than sinking to this level. One moment involves him being drunk after the molestation accusation. During this he berates Gordy before dropping his pants and asking his son to...well you can only imagine. It's painful to watch.
I don't know what else to say. I haven't even mentioned the romantic subplot that involves Gordy becoming involved with a disabled girl who likes nothing better than having her crippled legs whacked repeatedly.
On only three occasions did I actually laugh and they were the true moments of Tom Green insanity where the moment wasn't offensive or in bad taste, they were moments that were just so off the wall but incredibly stupid. Sadly that doesn't make a movie and when one of the closing scenes has someone holding up a banner saying "When the f**k is this movie going to end?". At that moment you get the feeling that Tom Green has played an expensive joke on the studio that financed this.
After 'Dude Where's My Car?' I didn't think things could get any worse.
I was wrong.
Also the Razzie nominations have just been announced, the oscar alternative for the worst films of the year....guess which film looks set to sweep the board?
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(+) Because of the new series the box set isn't complete, which means it will be cheaper! (-) It isnt the complete box set so you'll have to buy the new dvds seperatly or wait for the new set!
Production Year: 2003 - Comedy - Director: John Crowley - Original Language: English - Classification: 18 years and over - Starring: Colin Farrell, Shirley Henderson, Cillian Murphy, Colm Meaney, Rory Keenan, Laurence Kinlan
Comedy - Original Language: English - Classification: 12 years and over - Starring: Tessa Peake-Jones, Buster Merryfield, David Jason, Nicholas Lyndhurst
This is honestly one of the worst films I have ever had the displeasure to sit through. Very good review on this abomination of a so called comedy film.
Wayne10ch 12.02.2002 09:35
To be honest I have never been a fan of Tom Green. There is funny and there is obscene. He is too radical and believes his jokes no matter how off the wall or obscene to be tolerated. Thanks for the op! Regards Wayne
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Advantages: Great Soundtrack, funny in places,Rip Torn, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Marisa Coughlan Disadvantages: Too much like the Tom Green Show, Weak Plot by numbers that really detracts from the potential
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