terrible, terrible, terrible

Rating: Null/10 (28 September 1998)

I am actually angry. I've tried to understand why and I guess it's perhaps the laughter from the audience seems so incongruous, so WRONG, that I just want to shake them and scream, "Can't you see?!? Don't you know how terrible this is!?!? What's so funny?!?" Little automatons laughing at the most sophomoric humor to grace the screen since Ben Stiller first decided he was funny. Oh, and by sophomoric I mean high school sophomores, little kids who giggle at the word "masturbate" (did I hear Beavis and Butthead?), who snicker at the thought of a scrotom-in-zipper scenario - even if it is milked for twenty minutes!! I've actually heard (I need to sit down for this part), I've actually heard some people remark on this movie's "daring"?!? As if showing a crippled guy try to pick up keys is either original or funny. Don't you dare give these writers credit for what amounts to twenty minutes of script writing claptrap. What's REALLY funny? Think about it. Not what embarrasses you (hair gel - that's not funny, that's easy. EASY. That's not a joke, that's kids hanging out on the street corner. That's - I've got it! That's stupid!). Not what is tragic (the dog scene - and I don't mean the creative crotch biting, which no one has seen before, I mean the animal's near death experience. Setting it on fire is funny? Think about it. What kind of laughter is that generating, really?). I mean, what is truly funny? Sure as hell isn't this movie. You know what? Most people in the movie theater laughed. Did you ever see the original "Invasion of the Body Snatchers"? Remember that guy who runs around screaming they're going to get us? It appears I'm that guy (even friends of mine liked this movie). I'm isolated. Alone. And I'm afraid THEY have already taken away our brains.