Brilliant Absurdist Humor

Rating: 9/10 (26 June 2008)

What Roeper, Gleiberman, AO Scott, and other mediocre critics miss is the genius in the absurd. Meyers's film is brilliant absurdist humor ala Kentucky Fried Movie, e.g., *Sir* Ben Kingsley's crossed eyes throughout, elephants having sex on ice (as a means of distraction), Meyers and partner performing Extreme's "More than Words" on sitar, the cutaway to India through the third eye, Romany Malco and Meyers bar fight amid country pickin' ala Burt Reynolds's Hooper, the final number with Jessica Alba and village singing. This film presents the absurd while at the same time satirizes filmic cliché. As just one example, consider the *deliberate* rushed through come-from-behind Maple Leafs victory. And really, since when has genital and scat riffing been off the table? Ya blow-hards...