It won't blow you away, but it's atmosphere with the admittedly played out 80's neon and music kind of gets it cheap style points, sort of a guilty pleasure at this point. The main actor seemed to almost over-act like the total dork loser, I don't know if he's a total slayer in real life and he felt the need to go over the top on the "dork" character because he didn't think the audience would buy a stud like him playing the part of a loser, or if that was the directors vision for it to be almost cartoonish. It just came across a bit cringe and corny a lot. I mean I get it he's a dork, but even still... ughh... This was also kind of part of the fun though of the movie admittedly.
Props for changing the setting several times, although not many, it at least took place it 2 different places throughout the main segments of the movie. This makes movies feel more like an adventure and helps from keeping a movie from going stale.
The characters were a bit odd, But I don't think the movie was going for realism so I can't really knock points for that. But even still, just gotta point it out... The meticulous emotionless killer who had like a 17 point plan for disposing of bodies to be careful so he wouldn't get caught, (name was Franz or something) with his full blown serial killer garb turned into... a wacky ass clown? Complete with white face paint that would just burst out laughing maniacally. I don't know, I just feel like that is absurd by the way he was described in the beginning of the movie, But I guess they wanted to fit all the stereotypical "killers". We got the Jason-esque killer with the big guy complete with coveralls and machete. We got the completely unremorseful "G-man" complete with stories of bombing villages etc. As well as the Japanese sushi chef who eats people. And last but not least the Patrick Bateman Rip-off, "Bob" I believe he was called complete with plastic trench coat and slicked back hair.
I understand there is only so much dialogue combinations in the universe, but the scene where the doctor pulled the knife out of the main dude's arm and he is yelling at the doctor then comically apologizing and saying it's just his job, seemed a lot like that waxing scene from the 40 year old virgin.
Overall I found the over the top dorkiness and overacting actually pretty entertaining and kept me interested in the film until the end. It was goofy and "fun" enough to work, so the title is pretty fitting in my opinion.
I also thought it was a nice touch when the director and the kid were talking in the beginning of the movie and the kid critiques the director about how it doesn't make sense that the killer always catches up to the victims because he is so slow, which the director responds that it's more like dream logic, like being in a nightmare, and basically your not supposed to take it that seriously and it's for fun. Very nice jumping off point because I felt as though the movie operates similarly to this analogy and it kind of set the stage if you will.
Overall, you won't miss anything if you skip it, but if your totally bored I thought it was a fun enough watch on a slow night or evening.
Props for changing the setting several times, although not many, it at least took place it 2 different places throughout the main segments of the movie. This makes movies feel more like an adventure and helps from keeping a movie from going stale.
The characters were a bit odd, But I don't think the movie was going for realism so I can't really knock points for that. But even still, just gotta point it out... The meticulous emotionless killer who had like a 17 point plan for disposing of bodies to be careful so he wouldn't get caught, (name was Franz or something) with his full blown serial killer garb turned into... a wacky ass clown? Complete with white face paint that would just burst out laughing maniacally. I don't know, I just feel like that is absurd by the way he was described in the beginning of the movie, But I guess they wanted to fit all the stereotypical "killers". We got the Jason-esque killer with the big guy complete with coveralls and machete. We got the completely unremorseful "G-man" complete with stories of bombing villages etc. As well as the Japanese sushi chef who eats people. And last but not least the Patrick Bateman Rip-off, "Bob" I believe he was called complete with plastic trench coat and slicked back hair.
I understand there is only so much dialogue combinations in the universe, but the scene where the doctor pulled the knife out of the main dude's arm and he is yelling at the doctor then comically apologizing and saying it's just his job, seemed a lot like that waxing scene from the 40 year old virgin.
Overall I found the over the top dorkiness and overacting actually pretty entertaining and kept me interested in the film until the end. It was goofy and "fun" enough to work, so the title is pretty fitting in my opinion.
I also thought it was a nice touch when the director and the kid were talking in the beginning of the movie and the kid critiques the director about how it doesn't make sense that the killer always catches up to the victims because he is so slow, which the director responds that it's more like dream logic, like being in a nightmare, and basically your not supposed to take it that seriously and it's for fun. Very nice jumping off point because I felt as though the movie operates similarly to this analogy and it kind of set the stage if you will.
Overall, you won't miss anything if you skip it, but if your totally bored I thought it was a fun enough watch on a slow night or evening.