I wanted SOO badly for this movie to succeed. I am a HUGE fan of Napoleon Dynamite and Nacho Libre, and will watch the films over and over again. Jared and Jerusha Hess are excellent writers, and I love their quirky characters and the colorful worlds these characters live in.
But this film just does NOT work! Any film that has gratuitous use of vomiting is destined for the trash heap, and this film has so much of it that you are scratching your head about how on earth it was every approved for release. It makes sense it was pulled from the theaters after just a couple weeks.
Here is a great example of the stuff that is so awful you can't even believe you're watching it: Benjamin is in a movie theater an gets sick to his stomach seeing the trash on the screen that his book has become and goes to throw up in the lobby. Then Tabatha comes out into the lobby to profess her love for him and kisses him immediately after he vomits, before he's had any chance to clean up or anything. DISGUSTING!!! Ronald Chevalier is hilarious. A completely arrogant buffoon that Jemaine Clement pulls off wonderfully. The bluetooth headset he always has on but never uses. The crazy Native American accents to all his outfits. Hilarious.
But this film just does NOT work! Any film that has gratuitous use of vomiting is destined for the trash heap, and this film has so much of it that you are scratching your head about how on earth it was every approved for release. It makes sense it was pulled from the theaters after just a couple weeks.
Here is a great example of the stuff that is so awful you can't even believe you're watching it: Benjamin is in a movie theater an gets sick to his stomach seeing the trash on the screen that his book has become and goes to throw up in the lobby. Then Tabatha comes out into the lobby to profess her love for him and kisses him immediately after he vomits, before he's had any chance to clean up or anything. DISGUSTING!!! Ronald Chevalier is hilarious. A completely arrogant buffoon that Jemaine Clement pulls off wonderfully. The bluetooth headset he always has on but never uses. The crazy Native American accents to all his outfits. Hilarious.