Perhaps my expectations were too high. Perhaps it's been overhyped. Yet this movie was highly disappointing and, in the worst crime of cinema, uninteresting. The humor is like if Charlie Chaplin at his worst was working while dealing with a brain aneurysm. It's cheesy and campy, but not in a good way. And given that's the focus, it's pretty worthless overall.
The story is nonexistent, or at least unimportant. It's about a survivalist sometime between 1500 and 1900, maybe. It only exists to serve the creation of a series of gags that aren't funny, clever, creative, or witty. Many of these revolve around beavers; or, more accurately, humans dressed in beaver costumes. Is that hilarious in itself? No. Does it lead to anything hilarious? Also no.
If you saw any of the post-Naked Gun movies Leslie Nielsen did, where the gags were incredibly forced and painful to watch, you'll have a good idea of this movie's sense of humor. It's like those but with the aesthetics of The Saddest Music in the World/Guy Maddin.
The only redeeming features of this feature are the ambition and the creativity in production. Three stars for that, I guess.
The story is nonexistent, or at least unimportant. It's about a survivalist sometime between 1500 and 1900, maybe. It only exists to serve the creation of a series of gags that aren't funny, clever, creative, or witty. Many of these revolve around beavers; or, more accurately, humans dressed in beaver costumes. Is that hilarious in itself? No. Does it lead to anything hilarious? Also no.
If you saw any of the post-Naked Gun movies Leslie Nielsen did, where the gags were incredibly forced and painful to watch, you'll have a good idea of this movie's sense of humor. It's like those but with the aesthetics of The Saddest Music in the World/Guy Maddin.
The only redeeming features of this feature are the ambition and the creativity in production. Three stars for that, I guess.