Well, I didn’t LOVE “Super Troopers” but I liked it quite a bit. It had a ton of funny stuff in it. AND, I figured that these guys might have done more in their second effort.
I thought it was a great premise: slasher flick set in the carribbean resort.
But, it was just kind of everywhere. Was it a comedy? Was it a horror? Was it a satire of horror? Was it a satire of “Spring Break”?
It was kind of all those things, but it just wasn’t consistent, and there was nothing that was really memorably funny about it. And some stuff that was just plain odd.
There were some funny lines,
“hey fun pig. if you’re going to fun arrest me, I want to see your fun warrant,”
“There’s always one fuck-head like you trying to shit in the apple pie. Well you just shat in the one apple pie that knows how to shit back.”
but not enough to keep it going like Super Trooopers.
The guy who played Lars (Farva from ST) was good again. I think that guy can actually act a little. But his shit was stupid in this – all that “magic touch” stuff, and the shrinking body. Just not funny.
So, anyway, I was mainly disappointed – not as funny as Super Troopers – but still holding out hope for the guys from “Broken Lizard”.
I loved the album titles, like Sea Shanties and Wet Panties. But there were definately a lot of rather stupid moments in it, which detract from the comedy. I liked the end, “just fucking DIE already!”
oh yeah, there was an album called “Are there Hammocks in Heaven?” and the cover was Pete, laying on a hammock strung between a girl’s knees and he was looking up at her crotch. :eek:
These guys definitely have some inspired ideas. They just need to figure out how to make a more complete movie.
I honestly think the key thing that took it a step down from Super Troopers was that in this one, the Broken Lizard boys weren’t pals. Honestly, the easy, pranksome camaraderie they had (except for Farva) in ST was fun to watch.
I was such a huge fan of ST that I ran right out to catch Club Dread the night it came out. It had its moments (Pina-Coladaburg and Pac Man were also my faves), but I thought it fell short, too.
I’m told that a second viewing makes it almost as funny as ST. Maybe I’ll get drunk this weekend and rent it.
now that we’re running through the jokes, it seems a little funnier than it did at the time.
Those album covers are funny. The “fun police” guy was funny. I liked the lame accent on Putnam. The mangina thing was funny. I love that apple pie line.
one of the funniest things was the decapitation right at the beginning that was from the point of view of the decapitee.
I just thought there were too many LAME jokes that distracted – e.g. I thought “peena-lope” was just a shot at a cheap laugh. “goat fucking” – it’s like a junior high kid trying to get a laugh. why could the masseur shrink. was that supposed to be funny?
it was random.
(from ST) “let’s pop some viagra and issue tickets with raging boners” was maybe a cheap joke, but it was at least in character.
The shrinking bit? Enh. I liked the idea of a masseur trained in the Eastern Mystic Arts… sort of an amusing character. But the payoff for it was:
“Why don’t you do that all the time?”
“Is that a fat joke?”
And, of course, all the various chi-point amusements inflicted through the movie… (orgasms, the one guy peeing his pants, knocking out the girl tied to his back…)
