Year One Rented. Good Taste Police En Route.

I just got around to seeing Year One, because I saw the previews and used my superpower of knowing when things are going to be suckish ahead of time and just didn't, but then it's Sunday night and I have to write about something for Mama Pop, so it was this or The Proposal or stapling my tongue to the roof of my mouth, and I couldn't really write about the stapling thing because that's not really pop culture-related. And all the copies of The Proposal were out. And I hate my eyes and my ears and my intellect.

Year One is a perfect movie to test my powers of "If you can't say something nice..." because of Jack Black, and I think you get my drift here. One nice thing I can say about him is that fat men rolling around in loincloths is super funny to 9-year olds and maybe that was their target audience. If that's the case, than the whole scene where he eats shit totally makes sense. It was easily the best shit-eating scene I've seen outside of porn since Austin Powers: Whatever One It Was Where Mike Meyers Eats Shit. Also I think the Year One producers are really doing a great service to those same 9-year olds because where else are they going to learn about lesbians, and blow jobs, and how to pronounce "fuck". Maybe they think it's pronounced "fook" and when they go to swear at the school bully they'll be like "fook you" and then all the other kids will laugh and laugh and laugh and then I got a huge wedgie from Mikey F.and totally never lived that down. SO Year One will totally prevent THAT from happening to our children or our children's children.

Also awesome about this movie is the previews. There was a super-long trailer for Black Dynamite, which looks like it might win an Oscar for Best Parody Movie Without Leslie Nielson. And there was that awesome no smoking ad that ends up with the guy with lung cancer saying smoking will kill you. So again... perfect for the kiddies! This movie loves like it watches. Hard. And a little mean. Like good sex or bad Chinese food. 

A truly good thing about the film is Micheal Cera. And you might be asking yourself "Doesn't he play the same awkward, weak-chinned, nervous mumbling character that he always plays?" and to that I say " Stop talking to yourself, because I'M not really there and I can't even hear you." I had expected this act to get old because he's been doing it for 6 years now, but oddly...I still find myself chuckling at his pretend teenage uncomfortableness. He's like looking in the mirror, only it's a mirror that goes back in time and doesn't show me, but shows a guy who looks like Micheal Cera. Okay. It's not like a mirror at all. Shut up. I don't know what you would call that device. I guess maybe a "Temporal Micheal Cera-enator" or something. I don't know. I got D in physics. But he's still kinda funny is my point.

Also they had a lot of talented people in the movie like David Cross, and Oliver Platt, and Paul Rudd, and that guy with the big gap between his front teeth who is always on shows like VH1's I Love The 80s, and maybe a cameo by Bill Hader but I'm not sure, and Vinnie Jones, who was funny in movies like Snatch and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and also as a football hooligan. So my point is, they probably had a very impressive looking poster for Year One. Lots of people maybe were tricked into seeing it. 

And also, there were lots of outtakes in the gag reel where the scene was ruined because Jack Black farted, and I think we can all agree that fart humor is exactly funny. Like if you had to draw a bell curve of the whole scale of funny, where Arrested Development was on one side and anything with Katherine Heigl was on the other, fart jokes would fall right at the very top of the curve. Fart jokes are the opiate for the masses now, I guess. And I know that's totally a bastardization of some famous saying, so don't ever say I'm not literate.

To sum up: Shit-eating, Good Poster, Better than Katherine Heigl. Rent it if your going to be recovering from some surgery where you'll be drifting in and out of consciousness a lot or if your house is on fire and you can't stay too long.

Comments

[Soda & Candy]

I just watched it for the first time recently too, and it was so patchy, it's weird. Like there were some really funny moments but yeah, the shit eating and so on... why bother with that stuff when you already know how to write funny bits?