Post by StevePulaski on Dec 25, 2009 10:49:26 GMT -5
Brian O'Halloran as a clown in Vulgar.
Rating: 3/4 stars.
Kevin Smith's dark Comedy Vulgar reminds me of World's Greatest Dad that I reviewed about two months back. Sure it's way newer, but they both have a way of mixing dark humor with Comedy. Plus this one is very clever on dialogue (typical Kevin Smith). I dont think there has ever been a KS movie that has disappointed in terms dialouge.
Vulgar features one of my favorite actors, Brian O'Halloran who plays a twenty-something loser on the verge of becoming suicidal. He is a party clown at kids birthday parties under the name of "Flappy". His dad is dead, his mom hated him, and he is harassed every day by his redneck neighbors. He then decides to become a party clown, then gets gang raped on his first gig, and is taped doing it too.
On the edge of becoming suicidal and mentally depressed about the situtation, he decides to do something daring, and saves a young girl from her abusive father. Flappy, who was once a loser, is now a big time clown with his own TV show.
I dont want to say the conflict, but this movie, surprised me much so. I didn't think I would like this, but ultimately I fell in love with it. I cant figure out why this is quoted "the unknown Kevin Smith movie". This had a pretty low budget like Clerks and Mallrats, but it seems other Kevin Smith movies like Chasing Amy and Zack and Miri Make a Porno covered it up as well. All I have to say is, this movie is not what you would expect from Kevin Smith. This is about as extreme has I would want a KS movie. If you saw the original ending to Clerks, you could see that Kevin Smith wants nothing but misery for poor Brian O'Halloran.