Broken Lizard's Club Dread (2004)
This one's a crushing disappointment (I have practically all of Super Troopers committed to memory). I think the problem is that the Broken Lizard boys have way too much respect for the horror genre for this to properly work as a comedy, but their tongue is too far in their cheek for it to work as a straight horror film. Horror comedies are one of the most difficult things to pull off anyway (I can only think of two off the top of my head that work as both -- The Evil Dead and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre), and when the laughs dry up completely during the final half hour in favor of actual story wrap-up, it's hard not to feel disheartened. Some good, absurd jokes early on (I liked the live-action Pac-Man maze in particular), and Bill Paxton runs away with the film as Coconut Pete, and Kevin Heffernan has some nice moments as Zen masseuse Lars (the anti-Farva, basically)... but still. Why'd this hafta suck, guys?
Grade: C
This one's a crushing disappointment (I have practically all of Super Troopers committed to memory). I think the problem is that the Broken Lizard boys have way too much respect for the horror genre for this to properly work as a comedy, but their tongue is too far in their cheek for it to work as a straight horror film. Horror comedies are one of the most difficult things to pull off anyway (I can only think of two off the top of my head that work as both -- The Evil Dead and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre), and when the laughs dry up completely during the final half hour in favor of actual story wrap-up, it's hard not to feel disheartened. Some good, absurd jokes early on (I liked the live-action Pac-Man maze in particular), and Bill Paxton runs away with the film as Coconut Pete, and Kevin Heffernan has some nice moments as Zen masseuse Lars (the anti-Farva, basically)... but still. Why'd this hafta suck, guys?
Grade: C
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
Subscribe to Post Comments [Atom]
<< Home