Is it possible to exhibit complete brilliance in one medium and utter ineptitude in another? This trailer for the four-years-in-the-delaying The Onion Movie vehemently argues in the affirmative.
Yikes. Conceptually, the Steven Seagal parody is funny, but the execution is tone deaf. The rest is desperation. This trailer is featured on the DVD for The Darjeeling Limited, which suggests that Fox Searchlight plans to get the film off the books sometime this year… if there’s enough movie for a proper release. A couple of years ago, a friend who’d seen a cut of the film told me it was unreleasable by any reasonable standards (there was apparently less than an hour of movie at this point). I don’t know if producer David Zucker has done anything in the interim to remedy this. This would be a good question for the Superhero Movie junket; unfortunately, he’s not attending.
This trailer did get me thinking about all of the sketch flicks that invaded theaters in the 70s. Though The Groove Tube was the pioneer, there’s just no surpassing The Kentucky Fried Movie (those who disagree can take it up with the sexual dynamo that is Big Jim Slade). The worst? It’s got to be Loose Shoes.
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I wonder what the av club would end up rating this?
I actually found the trailer amusing, though there were no actual lols (like in the Pineapple Express trailer).
When the head flew through the windshield, I made a sharp surprised noise that was almost a laugh.
Yeesh. Someone, quick, put the funny back.
Is it bad that I wish that they'd really make an entire movie out of cockpuncher and trash the other shit?
Fuckin' right. And the capital of Nebraska is Lincoln!
I did laugh at the Seagal bit, but overall it looks like Fridays: The Movie. The only thing that could save it would be if they had Michael Richards parodying his on-stage racist rant.
It should make for a stellar "My Year of Flops" entry.
"Tight pussy, loose shoes and a warm place to shit…That's it!"
I liked the Neck belts. Seagal as Cockpuncher and the idea of restricting smoking to a single room. not as unfunny as you unfunny cunts at chud seem to think.
CHUD used to "get" comedy. People knew their shit. Now: WTF. With the messageboard collapse, Wagner's blog, Phil's articles, and Nick's Mary Worth whatever, things done changed. We even have a tame, snarkless Devin. Bring the funny back! I miss it.
I agree. Now is the end times.
Sadly, funny CHUD=XTRO.
Jeremy: "complete brilliance"? Methinks you haven't really read The Onion in a while. While they could do no wrong 5+ years ago, nowadays you're lucky to find even two good articles in an entire issue. AV club's still pretty solid, but the comedy stuff is on a Steve Oedekirk level of suckiness.
this looks like it will be fun
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