The cretins behind the infamous Bumfights series are back with what can best be described as Traces of Death mixed with America's Funniest Home Videos. If that statement immediately makes your skin crawl, congratulations on being a decent human being.
An unorganized collection of footage from police riots, Iraqi punishments, racing accidents, plane crashes, bizarre diseases and everything in between (including the obligatory Budd Dwyer appearance) unfolds before your eyes while set to either (not so) laughably inappropriate pop punk and electronic music, or goofy stock music meant to be humorous.
The tone schizophrenically (word?) shifts from serious to light-hearted with MTV-style editing and the aforementioned upbeat music to "lighten the mood".
Make no mistake, as with Bumfights, I knew exactly what I was getting into before I got into it, and the morbid side of me was hoping this would be blackly amusing in a really twisted sort of way.
I'll admit, there were three scenes in this movie that were moderately amusing, hence the extra star. The kangaroo hunting scene and the tank scene were the two sole examples where the contrast between the music and the footage actually worked. Then there's the man with elephantitis who has to have another man lift up his gigantic "affected area" as he walks up the stairs.
Other than that, the height of this movies wit is a "Mullet Meter" that - you guessed it - counts the amount of on-screen mullets during an autopsy scene. Bite me.
Some of the footage itself was entertaining, like the accident clips that could easily be on World's Most Amazing Videos or another TV show of that ilk. Other clips were disturbing, like the Iraqi punishments. But the presentation of the footage is reprehensible. Go watch Banned From Television instead.
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