The film confuses vulgarity with comedy

Rating: 3/10 (7 November 2006)

The premise of the movie was very generous: poking fun at cultural differences between USA and other parts of the world. A lot of the topics the movie touched on (American "scholars" aka frat party loving freshmen, the righteous red neck right wing, the religious wackos etc...) were easy targets and rich sources of comedy. Unfortunately, the odd funny bit is buried in loads of vulgarity of all kinds from promiscuous more-than-innuendos to excrement to disgusting exhibitionism. As a matter of fact what disappoints me the most is not that someone made a movie of this base nature but the fact that there are so many people who find it amusing. This film pretends to challenge prejudice, taboos and conformism. It actually forgoes the most elementary principles of decency. As artistic value is nil. Are we going to see a sequel? Here are some ideas in the same league of fun and subtlety : a drunk peeing in a church, a junkie killing his mother, a boy being castrated just for fun. Is it still going to amuse and arouse the crowds?