I just saw this last night. Mike Judge (Office Space) managed to get another movie of his slip in under the radar. Or rather Fox didn’t do the movie justice.
An Average “Joe” is selected for an Army stasis experiment gone awry.
Take equal parts
“Office Space” satire,
“Futurama” humorous speculation,
Spike TV ‘Jackass’-ness,
and Blatant “The Truman Show” product placement spoofing,
and you will begin to get an idea of what type of a gem this movie is.
The movie starts off slow, but soon enough it makes everything fair game, and the jokes just build on each other.
Anyone else see this?
My boyfriend has started using “Beef Supreme” as a nickname for himself because as he explained when we were watching the movie, “I like his attitude.”
As a side note, Beef Supreme was played by a third Wilson brother.
I think it’s definitely a cult classic in the making. My friends and I (not the types who usually do this) quote it to each other constantly and crack up.
As a law school graduate, I just love the fact that Frito got his law degree from Costco. Cracks me up whenever I go there, now. And of course, when my girlfriend suggests Starbucks (since I never will), I respond with “Who has time for a handjob?”
I’ll repeat a few things that I said about this film in the previous thread and add a couple:
-I thought the satire could be more pointed in some places (apparently, there were some changes made by the studio, as is often done with films), but what it does do right, it does very humorously.
-Some of the funniest bits have a bizarre circular logic reminicent of the old “Who’s on First” routine: the discussion on whether Brawndo the Thirst Eliminator is the best thing to feed plants (“What are electrolytes?” “I know! They’re what’s used to make Brawndo!” “But why?” “Brawndo’s got electrolytes!”) and the scene where our hero is attempting to tell the computer his name isn’t Not Sure: “Your last name is ‘Sure.’ Is this correct?” “No, it’s not.” “‘Not’ has already been registered as your first name.’” (The computers in the film are voiced by veteran voice actor Tom Kenny in an uncredited role, who’s at his funniest as the Carl’s Jr. computer: "Would you like to try our EXTRA BIG-ASS TACO, now with more MOLECULES?
-I would have liked to seen more of the “Time Macheen,” although I don’t know if you’d be able to top Hitler Chaplin and Nazi dinosaurs.
The film’s positively Swiftian in it’s satire. I want to know who Mike Judge pissed off at Fox to get them to treat this film so shabbily. What the hell was in the tubs that everyone was eating out of? (And what’s the rest of the world like, I wonder?)
“Welcome to Costco. I love you.” One of my favorite lines, as I live near a Costco.
I distinctly remember meeting some football players back in high school who acted much like Cletus Jr. in the opening montage of the smart couple’s failed attempts at reproduction vs. Cletus and his wives/girlfriends popping out babies right and left. “I’m gonna f*** all of y’alls!”
I just saw this. Damn that was funny. I had high hopes and it surpassed them. I agree with the Kornbluth comment, but this was even more pessimistic, since it didn’t even have Kornbluth’s secret underground of smart people. Still I was amazed by how many times I had to pause the DVD 'till I stopped laughing.
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The movie’s pretty uneven. As others intimated, I’m not sure I’d like to sit down and watch the whole thing through again. But the high points are absolutely golden. Hell, I probably will watch it again, because the good bits are funny enough to make it worth it.
My favorite thing is the hospital, with the McDonald’s-esque diagnosis machine. The best part is the doctor:
