The Cabin In The Woods

Even if Joss Whedon hadn't kicked everyone square in the box office with the Avengers this would have still been his shining year.  Why?  Cause that genius wrote "The Cabin In The Woods."  If he was here before me right now I'd shake his hand and kiss him on the cheek.  He has created the victory lap for horror fans everywhere.  In the future someone will no doubt make a better horror film, a more scary horror film, but I have doubts anyone will make a more knowing horror film.

Now some folks say the less you know about this film the better.  I don't know about that, but I'll honor the fairly spoiler free coverage of the film.  Let's just say that it seems like a fairly average horror film.  A bunch of horny teenagers are going to a remote cabin in the woods to make out and party.  A creepy guy tells them not to go.  The cabin itself is pretty creepy.  They really shouldn't have gone because this can't end well.

It doesn't.

So why is everyone having LOL joy kittens over this film?  Well first, everything I just told is just the merest surface.  What's underneath not only explains why these teens are going to die, but why EVERY teen in films like this have to die.  Won't say anything more except, "Stockholm is down."

The other thing is that this film is often just side splittingly funny.  In a weird way parts of the film harken to "Office Space," where people fight against corporate (and worse) dehumanizatin with humor.  Whether it is an office pool or small pranks on some of the odder employees I think everyone can empathize with the situation and the humor feels real and unforced.  I know I'll never think of "speakerphone" the same way ever again.

The final and probably most important reason is that in the end they bring the goods home.  This is not a film that fizzles in the final reel but rather takes a big snort of moonshine and adrenalin puts on its Rambo bandana and goes completely barking mad Joe Pesci/Bruce Lee insane on the audience's collective ass.  It is one of the most joyful assault on my senses I've had the pleasure to witness in a long, long time.

So, stop reading this and GO SEE IT!

Bernie

This just a great film. I feel all gushy about it. I even showed it to my mom (a rare event our tastes are light years apart), and was amazed how much she liked Jack Black. So if a film can bring us together on anything it has to be a pretty special little film.

It's based on a tale of true crime. See Bernie, here played by Jack Black, is an assistant funeral director in a small Texan town. He's oddly enough the life of the party, the spring in the step and just about the nicest guy you'd ever meet. Oh, he wasn't perfect he had a problem with shopping too much and folks would gossip on whether or not he was gay or not; but over all life was good for Bernie and everyone liked him.

Things change for Bernie when he sets sights on the meanest old woman in town. Who knows why, maybe it was a challenge to him. Maybe he really did believe that everyone had some good in them. Wrong. It quickly becomes a toxic relationship where Bernie is trapped because he's simply too nice to tell her to take a long walk off a short pier.

Well, suddenly the meanest woman in town is no longer in sight. Bernie makes excuses and proceeds to spend her money (on her behalf, of course) to help the town. Eventually this will not stand and soon the town is filled with the gossip that Bernie has killed the old hag. The rest of the film follows the town's reaction and the trial.

This is a great little low key film. What really brings it to life is the acting of Jack Black and Shirley MacLaine. I've always liked Jack but sometimes he doesn't choose good vehicles and he can go over the top in his acting at the drop of a check. Here, he's restrained and just perfect in the role of the soft hearted Bernie. We also get to hear him sing something different than rock and roll. His gospel renditions are just beautiful. Shirley MacLaine doesn't have a lot of lines in the film but she really sells her wicked witch character just by body language and a lemony face. She's more prickly than a porcupine with a bad case of static shock. Together they are truly an odd couple, but they sell it so well!

The Three Stooges

The Farrelly brothers have done some funny stuff, but I don't trust them. Maybe they get into a zone and don't realize it but sometimes they cross the line for me. This was clearly shown in the movie "Dumb and Dumber" when Jim Carrey sold a blind kid a dead bird with it's head attached to it by tape. This wasn't dumb, or even dumber it was just plain mean.

It's that mean streak that sometimes pop up that made me worried when they took on the Three Stooges. The originals were no shrinking violets so it seemed to me that it would be easier to go over the line. Luckily that didn't happen. The movie is a very respectful of its main characters.

That is unfortunately the problem of the film.

Quite simple "respect" and "Three Stooges" work about as well as a matter/anti-matter cocktail. While the Stooges in this film do some pretty wild anarchic gags the tone of the film is just a little too laid back. Like in some bad comedies there's a sense that the film is waiting one extra beat to let the audience laugh it up.

The plot is straight out of the old shorts. The Stooges have been raised up in an orphanage by nuns. The orphanage is about to get shut down so the boys have to go raise up and outrageous amount of money in a month. As they search for work they accidently get involved with a murder for hire scheme and meet again an old friend who got adopted by rich parents at the expense of Moe. That last little subplot really has no place in a Stooge's film as it leads to a too gooey "I luvs use guys" moment.

It's not all bad though. Will Sasso made a fine Curley, and Larry David was great fun as Sister Mary-Mengele. Some of the gags were fairly good slaps stick and there were points where I admit to a smile and a chuckle. So if you are a fan it is definitely worth a look.

Tim And Eric's Billion Dollar Movie

I like cutting edge humor.  I enjoy things that are odd and not mainstream.  Then there is Tim and Eric.  Some folks find them an absolute scream, and many others just scream.  I liked what they did with "Tom Meets the Mayor," but then they did "Tim and Eric's Great Show!" and my enjoyment lagged way bad.  There were parts that were very funny, I admit.  But I also have to admit I was unable to watch an entire episode without being profoundly uncomfortable.

Tim and Eric want you out of your comfort zone.  Even before getting into the weird content of their skits they alienate viewers with stutter editing, bizarre sounds, and even a rather alien body language.  It's like watching skits being performed by either retarded people or aliens but you can't decide which they are.  I can see why other comedians like their work because they are doing a deconstruction on what pushes the audience buttons. 

That doesn't mean I have to enjoy it.

So with that being said, I had low hopes of enjoying "Tim And Eric's Billion Dollar Movie."  After all, it looks like everything the Tim and Eric show was without any TV censorship.  I was right.  Again, I freely admit there was some very funny bits.  I love  the guest stars they wrangled for the show.  I can even say I appreciate their artistry.  But on the whole, I found the whole affair to be horrid and left me needing a shower. 

For the record the plot is that Tim and Eric blow a billion dollars in making a horrid three minute film.  The backers are of course upset and want to kill them.  They see an ad to manage a mall for supposedly a billion dollars.  So they go to the mall and interact with wacky characters like the guy trying to sell used toilet paper.  Can they make their billion?  Can they avoid getting killed?  Can I scrub the "brown bath" out of my mind forever???  Well, if you want to see it, go for it.  Just remember I warned you.

A Very Harold & Kumar Chistmas

Honestly people, this is the funniest comedy that's been released in say the last five years.  It made me laugh, it made me smile, and maybe even a tug at the ol' heat strings.  Not bad for a stoner comedy and one using the horrors of 3D at that.  So why did I like it so?  Oh let me count the ways

1. The plot has a great hook.  Our two friends have drifted apart and on this one night they come back together.  Who of us haven't found us drifting away from that wild and crazy friend as we become more of an "adult."  It's a very universal theme.
2. As they drifted they still needed a good buddy so each choose one that complimented their desires instead of being their devil's advocate as the original Harold & Kumar team was.  So Kumar pals with a guy even more immature (seriously I don't think he's graduated from high school), and Harold is now with a guy who's bringing his cute little girl everywhere with him being the responsible one.  It's funny because eventually when these faux teams split you get Harold and Kumar and this new team of a tight ass and immature ass trying to survive in a hostile world.
3. Best. Use. Of. 3D. Ever.  Of this I have no doubt.  They make it an organic part of the film and not just a gimmick to make you pay double price at the theater.  Also, unlike most 3D films this one looks great.  It's bright and sharp and beautiful.  If all 3D films were like this even Roger Ebert would like them.
4. Danny Trejo.  Love the man, and here he shines.  Not only does he get to play the hardest ass step father ever, but he also tells one of the best "Christmas means so much to me because my childhood Christmas' sucked" stories ever.  Bonus points for showing boyhood Trejo with the trademarked Trejo 'stache! 
5. The cute little baby girl on drugs.  I don't know what combination of coaching and CGI it took but it was hysterical to see her high first on marijuana and then on cocaine.  Not something I'd recommend in real life of course, but remember it's only a movie.  It's only a movie.
6. Neal Patrick Harris.  'Nuff said.
7. Dead Neal Patrick Harris.  Finding out that heaven was a nineties night club where he stole Jesus' girlfriend was priceless.
8. Wafflebot.  Mmmmmm waffles.
9. A hilarious shout out to "The Christmas Story." 

In short, I loved this film and recommend it to anyone any time of the year.

Blubberella

This is a bad, bad, bad film. It knows it is a bad, bad, bad film. The only question was would it be able to do what some Troma films do and flip the badness into a weird counter cultural funkiness. After a viewing I would have to say, "No." But I will damn with faint praise and say if you were completely bombed out of your mind, and with your favorite buds you might be able to squeeze a laugh or two.

Directed by the bane of all film making Uwe Boll, the story is fairly simple. Blubberella is a half vampire who is, wait for it, very obese. She lives in Germany in 1940 in what the film describes as the "Jewy" part of town. Yes, that's a sample of the level of jokes. She spends her days going into her walking fridge/butchershop and looking up potential dates on her PC (In the forties remember), and then kills a bunch of nazis. She hooks up with a resistence that is basically made up of a handsome hunk and a bitchy gay man. Meanwhile the nazis dither and try to pretend they are in a Mel Brooks film.

Acting is subpar, though I admit I wanted to like the actress who played Blubberella because she was obviously willing to throw away things like dignity and played her role all out. Everything was subpar actually, but as I hinted this is not the worst Uwe Boll movie. It's a bit like grading kicks to the groin, but this wasn't sooo painful. Tasteless yes. Vulgar, very. Not a film to watch with your mother. Anyhoo, there you go. The things I do for my readers.

Lucky

"Lucky" is one of those quirky little films.  You know, the type that show up at small film festivals.  That's not a bad thing, but you should know what you are getting into.  Like "The Perfect Host," those could have easily been a stage play.  It's very dialogue heavy and fairly set bound.  Again, not bad things but it does give you the feel for this film.

The plot is that a rather odd man wins the lottery.  He's very much a mother dominated figure and not very social.  Well, a quirky single girl who just got fired decides that he's marriage material.  Well at least his check is.  It seems the perfect plan, soon her and her uncooperative parrot will be rolling in money.


The problems is that first lottery money generally comes out in drips and they have over spent themselves to the point where buying food becomes an issue.  Worse, our quirky, eccentric, and rather unethical heroine discovers that hubby is a serial killer and there are several girls already planted into the ground.  She now is fending off a police detective and neighbors as she tries to keep her husband's secret.   At least till the next check comes in.

Over all a fun little film.  I liked it but wasn't overwhelmed by it.  I guess there's no sin in merely being whelmed.

Not Another Not Another Movie

Once upon a time, there was a golden time for films that spoofed other movies.  "Airplane,"  "Police Squad," and even "Hot Shots," threw enough jokes against the wall that there was always something funny.  Then something funny happened, not funny "Ha ha" but funny "who took a header into Columbia's supply of blow?"  Spoof movies became horribly unfunny.  They became anti humor.  The worst that I've allowed myself to see was "Disaster Movie."  Oh so well named, what can you say about a film that thought Amy Winehouse as a sabertooth gasoline drinking tiger dream seer was a GOOD idea?

So now we reach "Not Another Not Another Movie," a spoof movie about making a spoof movie.  This is like the bad trip version of 2001 and now the genre is the shakey old man reaching out to himself.  So is this  the star child that will bring the genre back?  Oh hell no, this film sucks rocks.  It is, however, several levels better than "Disaster Movie," so I guess that's some hope.

What makes it better?  Well it actually pretends to have almost a plot and almost a character you can care about.  He's a doofus but he has heart.  Unfortunately, they put just a little too much on the character like narcolepsy and memories of childhood abuse that don't make him endearing, just weird.  The other thing that makes the film a little fun is there are several rathre famous old dudes who dropped in for a check.  There's Burt Reynolds and Chevy Chase and they hang and chew scenary for about a minute and politely walk out a little richer in the bank and a little poorer in their soul. 

Anyway that's "Not Anotehr Not Another Movie."  I've damned it faint praise, and praised it by damning it enough.  It's not worth a view unless you are a completist or are willing to provide your own entertainment.

Futurama

Well it's the season ending episode of Futurama and I think they went out on a high note.  Like fat lady opera high note. Like Meatloaf after not eating for a week high note.  Yeah, I liked it.  It's a silly episode, but you know sometimes those are the most charming.  In this thrilling installment we get three different stories in three different formats.

The first story is done in the style of black and white animation of the thirties.  Everyone is is grooving back and forth and the thirties slang is thick and fast.  Here the crew is going to an asteroid made of diamondium and Fry hopes to pry enough to make a ring for Leela.  In the end though, he creates a new color no one has ever seen and we the audience just sees as another shade of grey.

In the second we are now in the world of 8 bit video game animation.  The Professor has used the diamodium to make a lens to see the origins of everything.  Everyone is impressed, though to the audience it is just a square pixel, but now th Professor is left in a world where all the questions have been answered.  What is he to do? 

In the final segment, aliens who communicate by dance see their precious diamondium asteroid destroy so decide to wage war on an anime earth.  Our now japanized Futurama crew must find a peaceful way to end the war involving the involved dance of peace ever danced.  Oh, the audience will not see it as it has not seen the source of everything or Fry's new color.  An interesting little paradox.

The episode was funny and spot on in lampooning its varying sources.  A great end for a frankly mediocre year.  Definitely leaves me wanting to see the next season.

Paul

I really wanted to like "Paul" more than I did.  For the most part this film, written and starring Nick Frost and Simon Pegg, is very affable.  I specially like the beginning when we meet our two heroes at comic con.  They are on a vacation and decide to go cross country and look at all the UFO related sites along the way.  They have a fun, scruffy chemistry and at this point I'm willing to follow them.  It's on the road they meet Paul who is the standard looking big headed alien type with the very non standard gruff voice of Seth Rogen.  After a few incidents of fainting they decide to help Paul on his escape even though he's being followed by a shadowy man in black and his two dofus assistants.  Along the way they pick up a half blind religious zealot played by Kristen Wiig.

Ok, here is where the film lost me.  I understand it, but for such a likable film it took some surprisingly mean shots at those with faith.  The character Ruth Buggs is a shrill parody of what a "bible thumper" is suppose to be until "cured" by Paul.  Literally, Paul not only gives her all the information he has but he heals her other eye so now she can see clearly.  She becomes a free living free cussing (if not expertly using the profanity) soul.  Again, I can understand it.  For one thing there has always been a "thing" between the very religious versus geeks.  I think every geek has a story like mine where one of my dad's friends wanted to save my soul by burning my Michael Moorcock books.  Still, to equate all faith with such prodnoses is in itself a sin.  Also, I'm uncomfortable with the idea that advance technology means lack of faith.  I have the feeling that when we do meet aliens we'll have to deal with some rather exotic theology.  The uptick though, is that this just a rough section that shouldn't have played that way in a film that wants to be basically a warm puppy with beer and weed.

Overall, it's a fun film.  Paul is a well realized bit of CGI, and a very well realized character.  Simon and Nick are great fun.  Just over all it lacks the "umph" to be a really funny film.  Sort of a hazard when making a film about slackers is that your film itself can end up well slightly slack.  When added with the one sour note (at least to me) and "Paul" winds up as something I'd watch once but wouldn't really seek out again.

Last Night's Futurama

Last night's episode enjoyment level will depend on how well you handle Dr. Zoidberg, "M"D. A lot of folks just can't handle his neo ethnic/vaudeville stereotypes.  I myself like his sad sack persona.  He's the show's bench mark of loserhood.  Even Fry can hold his head high when compared to Zoidberg.  So, I enjoyed a little extra back story on his relationship with the Professor.

It starts off in the past where we learn that Professor Farnsworth and Zoidberg went on a mission together under that grasping, greedy old maid Mom.  They were to gather samples from an alien Yeti, but the mission was compromised by the team catching hyper malaria.  For once Ziodberg was not useless and not only helped the Professor but promised to ease him out if he ever shows signs of hyper malaria.

We are then brought to the present day, and a typical day of medicine for Zoidberg.  He manages to have Fry go through every skin tone in animation, bisects Leela, and shave a few inches off of Hermes.  The crew has had enough, but the Professor is beginning to show signs of hyper malaria so he has need for Zoidberg to do as he promised.  Can Zoidberg be a better assassin than a doctor?  Of course not, which leads to the team making the most ludicris murder machine seen outside of a "Final Destination" movie.

The jokes were, outside the murder machine and Zoidberg's foiled attempts at medicine and assassination, ok but not great.  The Episode is better at having some heart.  It does bring old Zoidberg and oddly enough Mom into a better focus.  It's no "Jurassic Bark," but it's nice change of mood.

Your Highness

I sincerely believe that "Your Highness" was a flop because of bad timing. If it was released a few months later it would have ridden the wave of "The Game of Thrones" hype. It would have been seen as a good antidote to the ultra serious doings in most fantasy stories. But as it was, it was a sharp poke in an eye to a genre that hasn't really done a film since "Return of the King."

The story is about a lout of a prince. With his older brother being the protector of the realm and an all around paladin, he's allowed himself the luxury of being a womanizing drunkard. We are introduced to him as he's being hanged by the dwarves for sleeping with the king's wife. Luckily no one thought to resize the gallows so the hanging was less than successful.

Things might have gone on that way, but his brother's bride gets kidnapped by a nasty warlock and now together they must quest. It's not an easy partnership. The younger brother is jealous and cowardly. On the other hand he's blessed with a very pragmatic view and has some cunning. Together they defeat monsters and attempt to have their way with wenches along the way.

I enjoyed this film a lot. It had an easy breezy style and humor that was naughty but without being too vulgar. I admit that it sort of falls down in the third act as it has to become serious do the standard things a fantasy film does at that point. Also, I want to kick the fellow that wrote the little description on DVD package as this yahoo claimed it spoofed films like Krull. Sir, I know Krull well, and there was not ONE BIT of Krull spoofry. I wish there was. Other than that loved the film greatly.

Last Night's Futurama

Well last night was a Fry episode which is a license to be stupid with heart.  Fry's a good person, with maybe two grey cells (or at least off white) to rub together.  After running from pogo jumping robots and the even worse danger of fast food the gang was prepared to settle down to a meal using only good organic (and highly price jacked) products.  Fry suddenly doesn't want to eat something that could hatch into some beautiful life form.  Instead he'll hatch it and THEN eat it.  That plan doesn't work long because as Fry says, "You love something you've been sitting on for a week."  So when it hatches Fry takes the beast and names him Mr. Peppy and tries to raise him as a pet.  Fry  tries hard, but its a casual destruction machine that oozes corrosive secretions from every possible orifice.

Well if he can't keep Mr. Peppy then Fry will release him in the wild.  The problem is the "Wild" is a planet of Scotsmen who hunted the original Bone Vampires to extinction.  When sheep wind up as boneless sheep rugs it looks like Mr. Peppy is going to be killed.  Can Fry do the right thing?  Can Mr. Peppy express his love for Fry without giving him 3rd degree acid burns?  And how many aquariums of beer can Leela drink and still keep her honor intact?  This is a middle of the road episode but still funny.  I like that they keep Fry simple yet pure.  He might not be the rational center of the crew but he's the heart and soul of it.

Last Night's Futurama

Well this has been a banner season for Leela. Last episode that featured her, had her create a children's TV show and suffering the guilt of having everything turn out happily ever after. This episode focuses on Leela's goal oriented personality. It's pretty unique in the show because Leela first actually has goals (beyond say Fry's wanting to tie his own shoes) and she is compentent enough to achieve them. However, the trouble is with such a can do personality is when they can't do there's a risk of breaking a main spring in the think box.

That's what happens here when a delivery is eaten by a fourth dimensional whale. Before you can say "Call me fish meal," Leela is going all Ahab over the problem. The rest of the crew really isn't all that interested in the cargo or becoming whale food so there are nods at mutiny. It's a pretty fast paced episode and the jokes are good, but I still think last week's head licking time travel episode was more humorous. Still, I can always watch Leela.

Jackboots In Whitehall

Long long ago, on an island far away, the British did some funky things with puppets. "Thunderbirds," was to me a weirdly disturbing view as a kid. Folks today talk about the "uncanny valley," when dealing with CGI but there was just something disturbing about watching a puppet buried up to his neck in the desert sand suffering from the heat. On the one hand I knew it was only wood, on the other there was a reality to it not a part of animation. The disconnect left me feeling almost ill.

"Jackboots in Whitehall," is a direct descendant of Thunderbirds, but I've grown up some since then so puppets don't bother me anymore.  We won't mention either that one episode of "Nanny and the Professor."  Anyway, what we have here is a rather straight forward satire of WWII movies.  Here we have the nazis actually invading England only to be thwarted by a motley gang of brits, yanks, and anyone else that hates nazis.  The subplot has our main hero forced to stay out of the war because of his ginormous hands.  Of course, this makes him attractive to the ladies cause you know what they say about big hands...it means you are a Scotsman.  Unlike Team America, this film is only mildly naughty. 

You can't fault the puppetry, and moves along fairly well.  It just lacks say about ten percent more umphf to put it over the top.  Unlike a lot of current films they keep the in jokes to a minimum but there were some odd references to "Braveheart," "Zulu," and of all things "Independent day."  I think, it could have used even more nazis.  You can't go wrong with more nazis in a film I always say.  Over all though, I liked it enough to remain interested.

Last Night's Futurama

We all have levels of silliness we are willing to take. I was amused reading a review of last night's Futurama because the author felt that the show just accelerated past that level and became way too silly. His basic complaint was, "I will accept a science that will put a head in a jar full of liquid and said heads will accept their new head fish life without much problems. I will not, however, accept that licking head juice will take you back to the time that the head originally came from. That's just too silly."

I feel for the Author I do. I remember having fits over "Waterworld," not because it was a bad movie but because Kevin was recycling his own pee into water, IN THE MIDDLE OF A FRICKING OCEAN. Still, I'll have to disagree with the author since silly or not I found last night's episode just incredibly funny. For me, funny will excuse you a lot of silly. Remember that dear readers as a bit of salt for any review of mine.

Last night, they did indeed after a presidential head party (where Jefferson was dealing hemp rope to Hermes and Grant was puking in the bushes, or should I say Bushes.) discover that head bong water has time travel potential. Being stung by one bad branch on his family tree (Fry doesn't count) Professor Farnsworth laps up some Washington juice and goes back with Fry, Leela, and Bender to colonial america. The jokes fly even faster in the past with digs for example of the "Big Dig" in Boston, and jokes about where one can find Ben Franklin. We even get to see Franklin's best invention, "The Franklinator" which is a badger on a stick.

I could use one of those.

Of course, things don't resolve as easily as they should and our group come back to a Britishfied america. Which leads to a whole slew of Brit jokes that are as obvious as being slapped with a fish, but I still found funny. Definitely give last night's episode a look.

Futurama

Well this is the best episode so far in this season of Futurama. I like when they center on Leela cause she's generally the voice of reason for the crew so when she's thrown into the insanity head first there is even more comic tension. The episode starts innocently as Leela wants to tell the orphans a good story. Trouble is Leela has absolutely no imagination. Not being able to find a quiet place to write she takes the space ship to someplace quiet. When she comes back she has a story that not only the orphans like, but also a TV executive who decides to make it into a show.

While she doesn't go absolutely Bender about it, it becomes clear as the show becomes a hit that it has all gone to her head. One doesn't have to be Sherlock to smell something not right with this and in true Futurama fashion everything goes topsy turvy. The really nice bit is that what happens to Leela is both perfectly in character and perfectly funny. Besides a good strong story, this episode has some nice digs on children TV. I don't know about you good readers, but I'd watch "Dora the Destroyer."

Futurama: Let's get small

Futurama is back with a new season, and everyone's favorite robot is causing problems again. Being his insolently lazy self, Bender can't bring himself to fold the professor's sweater. So he takes the professor's new duplicating machine and incorporates it into himself. Presto, now he just adds matter and out comes two smaller benders. Since they have a copy of the copy device they can just add matter and out comes two even smaller versions of bender. Soon it's a Bender world as they threaten to destroy the world with unlimited copy. They even go so far as starting to turn all the water to alcohol so soon everyone is too drunk to stop the Benderization of the world. Thankfully, Bender's own nature stops the destruction of the world, or does it.

This episode isn't a classic, but it's in fine futurama mode. It will be interesting where the show is going to go this year after last seasoning strengthening of the relationship between Leela and Frye.

Sorcerer Hunters

Apparently in some fantasy worlds Sorcerers are horrible pests. The Sorcerer Hunters are basically bounty hunters and exterminators of these mystic pests. Of course it's not easy to take out someone who can sneeze thunderbolts. Luckily our crew has a secret weapon. His name is....Carrot. Carrot is an idiot, and a rather lecherous one at that. However, he has within him the power to become an ultra powerful demonic being who can take out sorcerers. That of course leaves the problem of what do you do with an ultra powerful demonic being who's a tad upset. Well that's why you have two girls with whips.

Yeah I had to read that last sentence twice myself. Definitely far more farce than action, it's as low brow as a cave man after a stroke. Proceed with caution, you've been warned.

The Last Lovecraft

This isn't the funniest film on earth, but it certainly has its little geeky heart in the right place. Here's the situation. Lovecraft was telling the truth. There are monsters beyond space and time, and they do want to come back and rule us. If by rule you mean squish us between their gnarly claws. Lovecraft went so far as to create a society to protect us humans from harm. Now cut to the present and the last descendant of Lovecraft is asked to keep a dangerous object from the forces of evil. He is helped by his geeky friend, their uber geeky geek in waiting, and an old sea captain who had been "fishraped."

The Earth looks pretty much doomed.

This is a small film that does what it can with a small budget. It works out pretty well, and for those who like a more fun take on unnameable horrors its a good watch to be sure. Enjoy!