Post by StevePulaski on Oct 14, 2010 17:29:38 GMT -5
Rating: ★½
It's one thing when you're offensive to be funny and posses an essence of wit, but when you are offensive just to be offensive it's not funny and overly stupid. The Underground Comedy Movie has become a recent discussion seeing as it is soon to be re-released in theaters with the same old scenes, just some redone with actresses like Lindsay Lohan and Joanna Krupa. Doesn't that defeat the purpose of "Underground?" If Lohan and Krupa are in the film and they're both pretty well known actresses, and underground refers to something lower budget and not as mainstream, does having two big namers defeat the purpose of the name. Maybe it should be The Comedy Movie? Too generic?
Vince Offer directed this aka "The Shamwow Guy" who will need a Shamwow to clean up this mess. This movie is just skit after skit of bad jokes, lame music, poor production values, shaky camera movement, things you'll never see that don't interest me or amuse me in anyway, stock music, and a load of other things. I laugh how in the beginning of the film they explain to you what satire is as if you've never seen a comedy before and this is your first time. I think the producers need to be explained what satire, comedy, and humor is because the title claims there is comedy, but none hits the screen.
I will say that the movie had me laughing a little at the intro with "The Batman" skit, mainly "The Rhymer" stood out and the I Hate L.A. skit had it's moments. Though a small continuity error can be noted because of the amount of Orange Juice in the glass gets smaller before Vince takes a sip. I can also excuse the film's low production factor and just let that be what it is. But don't tell me you didn't have a stand or tripod to put the camera on. In the Virgin Hunter skit you can clearly see the camera shaking multiple times. It gets annoying. Every movie I've seen up until this one no matter how minuscule the budget/production values the camera doesn't tilt up and down and shake. A tripod goes a long way.
This film is very reminiscent to a skit on SNL or the infamous MAD TV, though much dirtier and lower class. I Hate L.A. could've been fit for MAD TV and Bobby Lee's skit as well. Though like I said before, no skit stands out and all are forgettable, thrown together clips. It seems like Offer had intentions of making a real movie, but couldn't decide what he wanted to focus on. So he wrote down a bunch of ideas and figured that he could mash them up together and The Underground Comedy Movie was born.
With all the spoof films I've seen in my day, this one definitely isn't Epic Movie bad, but it isn't Scary Movie 2 decent. I will say it beats the hell out of Jason Friedberg/Aaron Seltzer films. Even though I didn't laugh but twice, thats more than I've laughed in any of their films. Though the film compares in no way to the Scary Movie franchise either. While the first three are in no way perfect, they pack more laughs in twenty minutes than this does in ninety-three.
I have no intentions to see the 2010 recut, especially when from the trailer it looks to be just another release of this with two bigger actresses who's roles would play a very minor role if that's the case. Maybe Vince ran out of Shamwows and Slap Chops and needed to re-release it in theaters, but whatever the case may be this can be said; I wasn't offended by the movie, just the 93 minute running time it took from my life.
Starring: Vince Offer, Slash, Gena Lee Nolin, Karen Black, Angelyne, and Joey Buttafuoco. Directed by: Vince Offer.
It's one thing when you're offensive to be funny and posses an essence of wit, but when you are offensive just to be offensive it's not funny and overly stupid. The Underground Comedy Movie has become a recent discussion seeing as it is soon to be re-released in theaters with the same old scenes, just some redone with actresses like Lindsay Lohan and Joanna Krupa. Doesn't that defeat the purpose of "Underground?" If Lohan and Krupa are in the film and they're both pretty well known actresses, and underground refers to something lower budget and not as mainstream, does having two big namers defeat the purpose of the name. Maybe it should be The Comedy Movie? Too generic?
Vince Offer directed this aka "The Shamwow Guy" who will need a Shamwow to clean up this mess. This movie is just skit after skit of bad jokes, lame music, poor production values, shaky camera movement, things you'll never see that don't interest me or amuse me in anyway, stock music, and a load of other things. I laugh how in the beginning of the film they explain to you what satire is as if you've never seen a comedy before and this is your first time. I think the producers need to be explained what satire, comedy, and humor is because the title claims there is comedy, but none hits the screen.
I will say that the movie had me laughing a little at the intro with "The Batman" skit, mainly "The Rhymer" stood out and the I Hate L.A. skit had it's moments. Though a small continuity error can be noted because of the amount of Orange Juice in the glass gets smaller before Vince takes a sip. I can also excuse the film's low production factor and just let that be what it is. But don't tell me you didn't have a stand or tripod to put the camera on. In the Virgin Hunter skit you can clearly see the camera shaking multiple times. It gets annoying. Every movie I've seen up until this one no matter how minuscule the budget/production values the camera doesn't tilt up and down and shake. A tripod goes a long way.
This film is very reminiscent to a skit on SNL or the infamous MAD TV, though much dirtier and lower class. I Hate L.A. could've been fit for MAD TV and Bobby Lee's skit as well. Though like I said before, no skit stands out and all are forgettable, thrown together clips. It seems like Offer had intentions of making a real movie, but couldn't decide what he wanted to focus on. So he wrote down a bunch of ideas and figured that he could mash them up together and The Underground Comedy Movie was born.
With all the spoof films I've seen in my day, this one definitely isn't Epic Movie bad, but it isn't Scary Movie 2 decent. I will say it beats the hell out of Jason Friedberg/Aaron Seltzer films. Even though I didn't laugh but twice, thats more than I've laughed in any of their films. Though the film compares in no way to the Scary Movie franchise either. While the first three are in no way perfect, they pack more laughs in twenty minutes than this does in ninety-three.
I have no intentions to see the 2010 recut, especially when from the trailer it looks to be just another release of this with two bigger actresses who's roles would play a very minor role if that's the case. Maybe Vince ran out of Shamwows and Slap Chops and needed to re-release it in theaters, but whatever the case may be this can be said; I wasn't offended by the movie, just the 93 minute running time it took from my life.
Starring: Vince Offer, Slash, Gena Lee Nolin, Karen Black, Angelyne, and Joey Buttafuoco. Directed by: Vince Offer.
