Īs exciting as all this exoticism might sound to the typical pax viewer, the rest of us will be lulled into a coma. Ī farce of a parody of a comedy of a premise, it isn't a comparison to reality so much as it is a commentary about our knowledge of films. It shows that some studios firmly believe that people have lost the ability to think and will forgive any shoddy product as long as there's a little girl-on-girl action. The execution is so pedestrian that the most positive comment we can make is that rob schneider actually turns in a pretty convincing performance as a prissy teenage girl.
#Kids stuck in quicksand youtube movie#
This 100-minute movie only has about 25 minutes of decent material. Here, common sense flies out the window, along with the hail of bullets, none of which ever seem to hit sascha. " enough said, except : film overboard ! Such master screenwriting comes courtesy of john pogue, the yale grad who previously gave us " the skulls " and last year's " rollerball. Nothing here seems as funny as it did in analyze this, not even joe viterelli as de niro's right-hand goombah. There is a difference between movies with the courage to go over the top and movies that don't care about being stupid While the ensemble player who gained notice in guy ritchie's lock, stock and two smoking barrels and snatch has the bod, he's unlikely to become a household name on the basis of his first starring vehicle. footage that might have made no such thing a trenchant, ironic cultural satire instead of a frustrating misfire. While the performances are often engaging, this loose collection of largely improvised numbers would probably have worked better as a one-hour tv documentary. Ī sentimental mess that never rings true.
#Kids stuck in quicksand youtube serial#
Īll the more disquieting for its relatively gore-free allusions to the serial murders, but it falls down in its attempts to humanize its subject. Unfortunately the story and the actors are served with a hack script. Ībout the only thing to give the movie points for is bravado - to take an entirely stale concept and push it through the audience's meat grinder one more time. The story is also as unoriginal as they come, already having been recycled more times than i'd care to count. Ī visually flashy but narratively opaque and emotionally vapid exercise in style and mystification. discards the potential for pathological study, exhuming instead, the skewed melodrama of the circumstantial situation. Įxploitative and largely devoid of the depth or sophistication that would make watching such a graphic treatment of the crimes bearable. It's so laddish and juvenile, only teenage boys could possibly find it funny.