American Flatulators (1996) -
This movie is basically a one trick pony stretched out to an hour, except the one joke is neither funny nor clever and overstays its welcome after the first five minutes. Granted, I will give the film a bit of credit since a few of the fart jokes, while not clever, still made...sense, but I mean, that's to be expected with a film like this. If you throw enough shit at the wall, something will eventually stick. And almost all of it didn't stick. I will admit though that the marine yelling at and insulting a group of girl scouts was about the only time I laughed at the film. Maybe if the film had more non-fart jokes, I'd be more into it. The only other credit I can give to this film is that I appreciated some of the craft put into making it resemble how game shows look. Though yeah, I found so much of the film to be a chore to get through. By the halfway point, I was basically zoned out of the film and wanted it to end. And given that it doesn't even last an hour, that's saying something. The buildup to the challenges were overlong, the backstories to the contestants and the commercials sank the pacing like a dead weight, and the challenges themselves, while they were the more watchable parts of the film, still weren't that engaging and didn't build much of any tension like some other game show challenges I've seen have. Overall, the movie's not quite a 1/10 for me, but it's not far from it either.
Next Up: God's Not Dead
This movie is basically a one trick pony stretched out to an hour, except the one joke is neither funny nor clever and overstays its welcome after the first five minutes. Granted, I will give the film a bit of credit since a few of the fart jokes, while not clever, still made...sense, but I mean, that's to be expected with a film like this. If you throw enough shit at the wall, something will eventually stick. And almost all of it didn't stick. I will admit though that the marine yelling at and insulting a group of girl scouts was about the only time I laughed at the film. Maybe if the film had more non-fart jokes, I'd be more into it. The only other credit I can give to this film is that I appreciated some of the craft put into making it resemble how game shows look. Though yeah, I found so much of the film to be a chore to get through. By the halfway point, I was basically zoned out of the film and wanted it to end. And given that it doesn't even last an hour, that's saying something. The buildup to the challenges were overlong, the backstories to the contestants and the commercials sank the pacing like a dead weight, and the challenges themselves, while they were the more watchable parts of the film, still weren't that engaging and didn't build much of any tension like some other game show challenges I've seen have. Overall, the movie's not quite a 1/10 for me, but it's not far from it either.
Next Up: God's Not Dead