First off the idea to put on the film darwin awards winning incidents/accidents is rich and should have lended itself for a great comedy/drama from the get go. And yeah, the aspect of humanizing these imbeciles and dehumanizing the insurace industry was a nice touch. Just execution sucked. The movie is a bit uneven with creators definitely struggling to piece together the funny stuff with plot development. Then, the "mockumentary" aspect of the movie - like there is an aspiring student who records on camera the adventures of our two heroes - did not work well at all. The San Francisco serial killer was over the top cartooonish, the props were cheap and Winona Rider has no business of being an actress. She is just plain horrible.
In summarion, good idea, poorly executed. It is like the director had some kind of mishmash in his head - "Monk", "Best in Show" and "Trailer Park Boys" and he stumbled along trying to create something along these lines.
I could only imagine what sort of a riot of a movie this could have turned into had Christopher Guest or Monty Python franchise decided to make it.
In summarion, good idea, poorly executed. It is like the director had some kind of mishmash in his head - "Monk", "Best in Show" and "Trailer Park Boys" and he stumbled along trying to create something along these lines.
I could only imagine what sort of a riot of a movie this could have turned into had Christopher Guest or Monty Python franchise decided to make it.