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director: Tom Green starring: Tom Green, Rip Torn, Marisa Coughlan running time: 87 mins rating: 18
In one early scene our hero tries to pitch some of his drawings to a Hollywood exec (played by Anthony Michael Hall, one of the film's more competent actors) who explains to him that he can see the characters but there's no plot or jokes and it isn't funny. Unfortunately, he's not so much describing the drawings as the entirety of this waste of celluloid, written by, directed and starring MTV's Tom Green.
The story, in so much as there is one, revolves around Gord [Tom Green], a 28 year old failure who wants to be an animator. He finally moves out of home much to the delight of his dad [Rip Torn] but soon returns after failing to strike it big in Hollywood. The rest is a series of pointless and generally unlinked scenes that revolve around vulgar images and Tom Green pulling stretched faces and meeting his disabled girlfriend [Marisa Coughlan] who manages cheerfully to outperform him at his own senseless game.
This is without doubt the most pathetic insult of a film I have ever sat through. I enjoy a fairly wide variety of humour and can still appreciate the good side to most of the comedies I dislike (see the majority of Adam Sandler's or Ben Stiller's work). Frankly American Pie looks like high-brow storytelling in comparison to this asinine trash where one scene has Freddy jump out of his car to masturbate a horse in a field for no apparent reason. And just count yourself lucky they spared you the six minutes of footage they shot of him sucking milk from a cow.
Writing about it without resorting to a string of expletive-filled insults is almost as much a test of patience as watching the film itself. The only thing that made it bearable is that at least I now know what a zero-star film looks like, although Ciao! forces me to give it at least one. In short this film is about as funny as incestuous child molestation (which, incidentally, it seems to think is hilarious).
VIDEO 1.74:1 anamorphic, reasonable transfer with some noticeable softening of detail but no digital artefacts or other issues.
AUDIO In some ways the perfect Dolby Digital 5.1 actually serves as a disadvantage as the film is awfully punctuated by a weak rock soundtrack (and I generally enjoy rock). Sound effects tend to be evenly spaced between all 5 satellites with no real care.
EXTRAS There is one redemptive extra on the disc which is the PG-rated version of the film, removing all the excessive vulgarity and running for a full duration of THREE MINUTES. That's basically the joke and it's the funniest one on this DVD, but if you think that qualifies it for purchase I'd recommend you have a word with your psychiatrist.
The rest includes a fairly banal audio commentary that obviously requires forcing yourself to sit through the entire film again, a twenty-minute MTV Special, 6 deleted scenes, cast and crew info, a soundtrack promo, the theatrical trailer, a promotional featurette and four TV spots. None of which are worth the effort of watching.
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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
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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
DuncanCatterall 14.06.2004 (15.06.2004)
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