I just- I can't even begin correctly. There's no opening I can muster that eases me into this.
I'm enraged, though at the same time I am also depressed. I followed Tim and Eric throughout their journey through fame. From 'Tom goes to the Mayor' up to the Tim and Eric Chrimbus Special; I've seen all the episodes, I own all the DVDs and I even incorporate a lot of their jokes into regular conversation with certain friends. There was obviously a huge risk in a movie being made out of a show that typically runs eleven minutes, but never would I have imagined this being so bad. Aqua Teen made a decent movie, so it can't be argued that the format was too difficult to work with. Though, of course it can be argued that it isn't that bad and/or that the Aqua Teen movie sucked, but for the sake of my review let's not argue.
I'm going to be brief. Like other reviews, I can easily count the amount of laughter I had in this movie. Surely there were several things that made me scoff, and I chuckled quite a bit, though I must admit I was trying my hardest to enjoy this movie. Plot? I don't care; they could have made a movie documenting animals and it'd have been just as decent a format- so let's not even argue that age old "They had to make an hour and a half out of that stuff they usually do!" because it's pointless.
The big name actors casted didn't play their typical characters that we all grew to know and love! John C Reily wasn't funny as Taquito; that character was so dumb and annoying. I'd have killed for some relief from Steven Brule. David L Hart didn't come out until the end and all he had to bring were balloons, Quall didn't say 'spaghetti and meatballs' but instead did bread jokes. No Pierre, Spagette, not even Odenkirk graced the screen and tons of other characters were completely overlooked and not even brought in for brief cameos! The casting was all wrong; the big name actors were nothing but an annoyance through the movie, while the more average type actors were barely seen at all.
More than the casting, I was disappointed with the actual content of course. Sadly, Tim and Eric have a strength that is found in random, goofy, off the wall absurdity; this movie has a rather loosely bound plot and likes to stick to it. I'm sure I'll get quirked brows for this, but the film having a semi-coherent plot such as this was likely it's biggest problem. It's boring, all the absurdity is out of place and barely takes you away from the course it's following. The whole movie I was sitting there saying to myself "Okay, when they hammer out all these details it'll be pure insanity and hilarity from then on... right?" Unfortunately I was never saved from the drab and annoying story that this movie was trying to tell. Things just kept getting more and more awful and then credits were rolling and all I was left with was a sad sense of betrayal swirling about in my mind and gut.
It feels like they were using this movie to send off their career. "Bye guys, we hope this turns you off to us enough so that we won't have to submit to demand anymore!" The whole cheesiness and grit of bad editing that we love from T&E was only found in sparse amounts and were not enough to save the film. It feels redundant at this point to say something like 'All the best parts were in the trailer' but, truly: they were! This movie has greatly soiled Tim and Eric's reputation for me and I have lost an incredibly amount of respect for them in result of all this.
It's pretty funny that they are making people take this phony pledge in which they promise to show all their friends and buy a copy, not pirate it and etc; because once this has gone by and people can realize what crap really rests beyond the veil of previous enjoyable comedy- there should be no money made off a film this disappointing.
So to wrap everything up: this movie was a disgraceful farce made by a couple of gentleman I previously held nothing but the highest regard for. It's made me rather upset with the dynamic comedy duo of Tim and Eric and was nothing but a huge waste of my time and ten dollars to have rented it. I'm sure that people will say I didn't get it or I only hated the movie because I'm not hip to their style of comedy, but I reiterate that I am a long time fan of theirs. I pray for their sake that some sort of serious problem with the producers lead to this being such a crappy film, but seeing as the two of them along with several others did so... that seems unlikely. I should have turned away when I saw it were a 'Funny or Die film' as if that were anything other than a stamp to clearly label this flick as a failure.
I'm enraged, though at the same time I am also depressed. I followed Tim and Eric throughout their journey through fame. From 'Tom goes to the Mayor' up to the Tim and Eric Chrimbus Special; I've seen all the episodes, I own all the DVDs and I even incorporate a lot of their jokes into regular conversation with certain friends. There was obviously a huge risk in a movie being made out of a show that typically runs eleven minutes, but never would I have imagined this being so bad. Aqua Teen made a decent movie, so it can't be argued that the format was too difficult to work with. Though, of course it can be argued that it isn't that bad and/or that the Aqua Teen movie sucked, but for the sake of my review let's not argue.
I'm going to be brief. Like other reviews, I can easily count the amount of laughter I had in this movie. Surely there were several things that made me scoff, and I chuckled quite a bit, though I must admit I was trying my hardest to enjoy this movie. Plot? I don't care; they could have made a movie documenting animals and it'd have been just as decent a format- so let's not even argue that age old "They had to make an hour and a half out of that stuff they usually do!" because it's pointless.
The big name actors casted didn't play their typical characters that we all grew to know and love! John C Reily wasn't funny as Taquito; that character was so dumb and annoying. I'd have killed for some relief from Steven Brule. David L Hart didn't come out until the end and all he had to bring were balloons, Quall didn't say 'spaghetti and meatballs' but instead did bread jokes. No Pierre, Spagette, not even Odenkirk graced the screen and tons of other characters were completely overlooked and not even brought in for brief cameos! The casting was all wrong; the big name actors were nothing but an annoyance through the movie, while the more average type actors were barely seen at all.
More than the casting, I was disappointed with the actual content of course. Sadly, Tim and Eric have a strength that is found in random, goofy, off the wall absurdity; this movie has a rather loosely bound plot and likes to stick to it. I'm sure I'll get quirked brows for this, but the film having a semi-coherent plot such as this was likely it's biggest problem. It's boring, all the absurdity is out of place and barely takes you away from the course it's following. The whole movie I was sitting there saying to myself "Okay, when they hammer out all these details it'll be pure insanity and hilarity from then on... right?" Unfortunately I was never saved from the drab and annoying story that this movie was trying to tell. Things just kept getting more and more awful and then credits were rolling and all I was left with was a sad sense of betrayal swirling about in my mind and gut.
It feels like they were using this movie to send off their career. "Bye guys, we hope this turns you off to us enough so that we won't have to submit to demand anymore!" The whole cheesiness and grit of bad editing that we love from T&E was only found in sparse amounts and were not enough to save the film. It feels redundant at this point to say something like 'All the best parts were in the trailer' but, truly: they were! This movie has greatly soiled Tim and Eric's reputation for me and I have lost an incredibly amount of respect for them in result of all this.
It's pretty funny that they are making people take this phony pledge in which they promise to show all their friends and buy a copy, not pirate it and etc; because once this has gone by and people can realize what crap really rests beyond the veil of previous enjoyable comedy- there should be no money made off a film this disappointing.
So to wrap everything up: this movie was a disgraceful farce made by a couple of gentleman I previously held nothing but the highest regard for. It's made me rather upset with the dynamic comedy duo of Tim and Eric and was nothing but a huge waste of my time and ten dollars to have rented it. I'm sure that people will say I didn't get it or I only hated the movie because I'm not hip to their style of comedy, but I reiterate that I am a long time fan of theirs. I pray for their sake that some sort of serious problem with the producers lead to this being such a crappy film, but seeing as the two of them along with several others did so... that seems unlikely. I should have turned away when I saw it were a 'Funny or Die film' as if that were anything other than a stamp to clearly label this flick as a failure.