Revenge for Jolly!

Plot synopsis:
The film reverts 36 hours earlier after a man pulls up at a house and confronts another man at his front door. The tale centers on Harry (Brian Petsos), a freelancer who spends a great deal of time with his beloved female pup, Jolly. Owing a group of people a large amount of money for refusing to do them a favor, he plans to leave town to avoid the debt. One day when he returns home, Jolly is found dead. Stricken with grief and anger, Harry enlists the help of his close cousin Cecil (Oscar Isaac) to find Jolly's murderer, dragging him through a path of destruction.
At a bar, they interrogate a rude bartender, Thomas (Elijah Wood), getting a lead on a man named Bachmeier (Ryan Phillippe), a regular visitor and suspect who was given Harry's address upon request. Harry snaps and shoots Thomas dead for that reason. Next, they track down known hooker, Tina (Gillian Jacobs), who was recently seen with Bachmeier. Refusing to pay her for sex and written info, Cecil is shot by Tina in the hand with a gun, but Tina joins her friend Vicki (Amy Seimetz) in death when Harry shoots them, as he grows overly vengeful.
The following stop takes Harry and Cecil to a law firm office, where they confront and wipe out three unscrupulous lawyers, Bobby (Bobby Moynihan), Eichelberger (David Rasche) and Danny (Adam Brody), for withholding info. The receptionist eventually tells them Bachmeier is at a wedding reception. There, Harry and Cecil show up uninvited and hold the people hostage, although Bachmeier is not present and his sister, Angela (Kristen Wiig) informs them that her family is dysfunctional. After killing many people in attendance, assaulting Angela and shooting her husband, Gary (Garret Dillahunt), a man soon gives them Bachmeier's address.
The film returns to the beginning. Harry pulls up at a house, leaving Cecil in his car to approach an armed Bachmeier at his front door. Harry blames him for Jolly's death, and Bachmeier invites him in like nothing is wrong. The final image shows two shots fired inside the house, though it is only seen from a distance on the outside.

Tags: revenge, murder, violence

Review:
I love "stupid" movies (see Smiley Face, The Ten).
I wanted to root for the main guy, cuz I'd totally wanna react the same way if anyone hurt my pets, but I ended up thinking he and his cousin were just a-holes.
This movie was a wonderful surprise, and the dark, twisted comedy used here was just phenomenal.
If you like offbeat comedies, then "Revenge for Jolly!" is definitely one to watch.The story is quite simple, but still very entertaining given the situations and the colorful characters.
The story is about Harry coming home to find his beloved dog Jolly dead, and then Harry sets out to find the one who killed his dog.It is the outrageous characters in particular that really adds flavor to this movie.
And there were some great talents on the cast list and some familiar faces here and there, which was quite nice.While this is a comedy, it is not a movie with comedy that will make you laugh yourself crazy.
I enjoyed this oddball comedy and was rather entertained by it, and I am glad that I took the time to sit down and watch "Revenge for Jolly!"..
This is the feature film debut of Chadd Harbold, after six short films (of which one is free to watch here on IMDb), with a script by main role man Brian Petsos, which here is Harry and really what we could say is a dog's worst friend.The film appears to be a black comedy with a great cast, but is not as funny as you think if is.The first 15 minutes seems OK, but then we understand this isn't a black comedy.
The plot has a good idea, and this film could have been great.
The problem is that it isn't very funny, just violent.
It's so not funny, that I wonder if it's supposed to be funny at all.It's about two low life (or no life) drinking buddies which goes on a killer rampage to revenge the killing of a small dog, Jolly.
They're completely unsafe and insane, played by Brian Petsos and Oscar Isaak.What is always great, is small supporting Rolex by know actors, and there's a bunch of them here, like Elijah Wood, Kirsten Wiig, David Rasche, Ryan Phillippe, Adam Brody, Garret Dillahunt, Kevin Corrigan, Stephen Payne, Gillian Jacobs, Amy Seimetz, Helen Rogers, Bobby Moynihan, John Di Benedetto, Brian Donahue and so on...The wedding scene is the most violent since the Kill Bill parody "Kill Buljo", a strange mix of provoked killings and mercy killings confuses a bit.
You will find out watching the movie of course.
Only if you like low budget movies that are violent, with a lot of puns in them that is.
The movie managed to get quite a good cast together (which partly owed to the fact, that most actors are in it for a few minutes).
You'll either love that "I know him" game, that is going to happen or you're going to wish there was more meat to some characters (no pun intended).It will be apparent where this is going early on and it might feel a bit repetitious at times (once again, swearing and blood).
But while that works against the movie, it's still fun to watch.
So no big surprises here, but a fun little action comedy.
I love a good revenge movie.
I also love a good comedy.
When I watched the movie to it's conclusion I was severely disappointed, but the more I think about it the more I get satisfaction from the ending.
The unseen emotion and depth of Harry's Character is felt through his actions against other's in society.
"Revenge for Jolly" is a crime drama masquerading as a dark comedy.
Harry (Brian Petsos) is a good guy who has done bad things and is in over his head.
But then bad guys kill his dog and he and his cousin, Cecil (Oscar Isaac), are out for revenge.
And then with another bad decision Harry kills a guy.
At that moment the film decides to take a dark crime drama and turn it into a comedy.
Follow up a murder with witty repartee which should only be attempted by good writers.
The entire beginning of the movie was told by narration, the rest of the movie was one-off scenes with good actors.
Some of which were mildly funny, most of which were extremely violent, none of which were cohesive.This is one of the worst attempts I have ever seen at a dark comedy.
The actors played it all so seriously (and frequently it was very serious) but then there would be a number of ridiculously violent acts and then they would have a ridiculous nonsense conversation to be played for laughs.
I get the juxtaposition, but none of it worked together.The lead actor couldn't play subtle at all.
Isaac does a great job of playing a bad guy who isn't so bad (he can also throw in some subtle comedy) but his character was terrible.
Cecil was supposedly a good guy with a bad cousin but he was just bad with no redeeming qualities.
I think the writers thought that since he wasn't as vicious as Harry, the audience would like him.
But has no one ever heard of moderation?A number of good actors come in for one scene.
Most of their comedy was non-sequitors, and most really weren't funny.
I did laugh at Adam Brody and Bobby Moynihan playing unscrupulous lawyers, but that was just the beginning of one scene.
Most of the comedy was to come from the dialogue, but it was terrible dialogue and shouldn't be uttered by any actor no matter what the skill level.
I do at least understand why all of the big name actors agreed to be in it.
What's the one type of scene that all actors love?
I don't think that's a good reason to be in a movie, but that's for a different discussion.
The problem with "Revenge for Jolly" is that it couldn't get across what kind of movie it was.
Or is it a satire of a dark comedy?
Just Plain Bad. Serious Dog Lover here and fan of dark comedies and off beat movies.
The dog violence at the beginning of the movie is intense - the violence that follows is worse.
Violence just for violence sake isn't entertainment - and this movie just fails.
After Sandy Hook, you think we would all have more of an understanding of that.Here is what you need to know about this movie.
The movie follows two losers through a violent day.
in scene after scene...Id like to find one good thing to say about the film but I can't.
Well after 20 years after he burst on to the scene with his take on the gory, dark comedy thriller genre there are still Quentin Tarantino fanboys who think its easy to make such films.Revenge for Jolly is revenge drama as Harry (Brian Petsos) in debt to some bad guys finds out that they killed his dog and he is not happy.Along with his cousin Cecil (Oscar Isaac) they go out for revenge which involves killing lots of other people even if they are not that bad.
There are scenes of violence mixed in with silly conversations, getting wasted and tagged on narration none of which makes the film funny or dark.So much bloodshed over one dog which involves Harry killing even one of his friends, no police in sight and lots of star cameos many of them wastedOscar Isaac is too good for this type of picture.
Writer and star Brian Petsos needs to learn what makes a Tarantino film tick..
Its an over the top dark comedy.
Its an over the top dark comedy.
This movie kind of felt like a lost episode of the soprano's only more insane.
One man comes home to find his tiny dog murdered and then goes on a killing spree to avenge the poor pooch with the help of his equally insane cousin.
Imagine Frank Castle had a pet cat he loved dearly and found out the someone took the cat and killed it but he doesn't know that the king pin was behind the murder and goes out with dead pool looking for answers...
I can't recommend the movie for everyone but if your in the mood for a dark comedy thriller it has its moments and some over the top hammy acting and ludicrous violence, so it might make your night..
I kept thinking about it the next day and watched it again with my girlfriend who has a dog and is a huge dog lover and that's when I understood it.
It never treats the violence or the conversation like the way Tarantino would.
There are a lot of quiet sections which I really liked and then it will hit you with these obviously funny sections.
And I realized that was kind of making me angry to but my girlfriend pointed out how the main guy seems so broken hearted and the actor is basically doing a serious performance.
His friend keeps trying to help him and goes along with him all around the town for the whole day, and it is repetitive but I realized that's what is so good about it!
The two main guys were great and the guest stars were mostly hilarious, except one was a wasted performance.
After watching it a second time I realized that I think it's supposed to make you angry because it's pulling you through this voyage and then it ends how it does.
Yes there are plenty of laughs kind of like "the office" type humor but it is the whole thing that made me feel like it was a sick joke but in a really good way.
Now I love this movie..
When Harry's (Brian Petsos) beloved dog Jolly is killed in mysterious circumstances he decides to track down the person responsible for killing his dog with his cousin Cecil (Oscar Isaac).In England, we are widely considered a nation of dog lover's so in principle a film such as Revenge For Jolly could easily have worked (I'm going to assume that's it's the same story across the pond in America).
This could have been a very easy film to like and could have been an easy film for an audience to become involved with, but sadly, for me, it was an awful and ungodly experience.The initial set up is OK and the narrative establishes Harry as a very lonely person, a man whose best and only friend is a dog - he's a believable character and this aspect of the story is something that many people could easily identify with.
Let's look at the problems....Well for a start, Harry is up to his eyes in debt and is on the run from some heavies (what a great way to undo any sympathy you have with a character).
Despite the fact that he's initially set up as a character we can identify with, he then goes on a manhunt to find the person who killed his dog with his cousin Cecil (who isn't as bad as Harry, but is still a character that is very hard to care about).
The writers then randomly switch from Cecil and Harry being stone-cold mercenaries on the hunt for Jolly's killers to care-free lads on a night out on the booze (this seems to happen a couple of times throughout the film).
It's billed as a 'Dark Comedy' so perhaps their goofball antics were supposed to act as some form of 'comedic relief' but their antics never made me laugh and despite the fact that the film is only about 80 minutes long I found myself continually seeing how much longer the film had left to go.The worst part of the film comes with the eventual showdown and all I'll say is that if you're expecting a good pay-off for the unbelievable tedium that you've sat through then you're going to be disappointed.
An absolute joke of a film that is easily one of the worst I've seen..
I really enjoyed this movie.The plot is darkly funny, with elements of Kill Bill and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, but all with an absurdist twist.The main characters are both strangely believable, in amongst all the insanity of the plot.
If you have seen Llewyn Davis then one side of the dialogue will seem vaguely familiar - the same actor brings his brooding, terse delivery to this movie with good effect.Overall, I would definitely recommend watching this.
I actually enjoyed this movie!
Review: They should rename this movie to One Man & His Dog!
Anyway, for some unknown reason, I actually enjoyed this crazy movie.
The 2 actors that play the leads were a great choice by the director because they are total opposites.
One man is completely focused on catching the guy who killed his dog, while the other guy is rational and just out to help cousin.
The music throughout the movie, set the tempo well and it's obvious that other people liked the script, judging by the amount of stars that are in it.
Enjoyable!Round-Up: It's not very often that I say this about movies, but this film could have done with an extra half an hour.
I was hoping for a big showdown at the end, but the director chose to leave it up to the audience to come up with there own assumption.
I haven't seen the guy that plays the lead before, so I can't really comment on his previous performances, but in this movie you do believe that he would die for his dog.
Anyway, on the whole, it's worth a watch just for its originality and funny scenes.I recommend this movie to people who are into there comedy thrillers about a man whose out to revenge the mysterious death of his dog.
...because if you spend the next hour and a half watching this, then that toilet isn't going to clean itself.
I should preface this by saying that I did not watch the entire movie.
Here are my thoughts:I had this movie for a week or so and got it because it sounded good, but every time I went to watch a movie something else always looked better.
I actually went on here looking for a little push to make myself watch it.
At that point there were only two reviews so I figured I'd be the tiebreaker and watch it.Well, as you already know, I didn't make it.
It's one of those movie that isn't good in this amorphous, hard-to-define way.
Like you can analyze specific things and it all checks out but stick it all together and it's a big suck-fest.
It's basically a movie about those two guys that no one's heard of.Someone asked, "Who the hell is Brian Pestos?" or whatever they said.
Anyway, I don't know either but I don't like his face.
You'll want to splash some cold water on your face ahead of time.Before I dump on this movie anymore, I will say that it could possibly be good and I just wasn't in the mood.
But that does tell me that it's one of those movies you've got to work with to enjoy and that's asking a lot of me.
I have lost a lot of respect for a bunch of actors who should know better.
A terrible film by spoilt Hollywood idiots taken with the idea that it is OK and hilarious for poor disenfranchised commoners to shoot each other to bits for no reason.
I guess the star and writer and all the others who indulged in this morally bankrupt attempt at comedy couldn't see that it is idiotic with no redeeming factors, terrible script, awful acting.
Pointlessly violent and attempting to play to some misconceived idea of hip, this film has no heart, no humanity and there is nothing to learn or see here.
The Ultimate Movie Review!
Harry (Brian Petsos) is an alcoholic, a degenerate gambler, and just an overall miserable person, but one thing does make him feel a little better, his chihuahua, Jolly.
While Harry is out, a bad man comes looking for him, and when he doesn't find him, he leaves a warning, and hangs Jolly from the ceiling.
Upon returning home, Harry finds Jolly and loses it before meeting up with his cousin Cecil (Oscar Issac).
At first I thought this was supposed to be some kind of farce on Tarentino films, but soon realized it's not sophisticated enough for that.
These two guys are drunk the whole film and I suppose their bumbling actions are supposed to be funny, but they are far from it.
No one can believe this is all over a dog, what I can't believe is that the two leads weren't re-cast after the first day of filming.
I really am at a lose to think of a comedy that was less funny than this.
I gave it one star, because of the appearance by Elijah Wood, which was absolutely the only reason anyone should even think about seeing this piece of trash.
Other than that, Revenge For Jolly!
is just another independent comedy, that falls flat on it's face..
I'M A GOOD GUY WHO HAS DONE BAD THINGS.
This is a quirky dark comedy that is rather pointless and moves slow.
In spite of that I found myself enjoying the characters and the scenes.After an all night visit of Harry (Brian Petsos) with his cousin Cecil (Oscar Isaac) drinking beers and playing Candyland, the unkempt Harry comes to find that his dog Jolly, the love of his life, has committed a "Philadelphia suicide." Clearly Harry has made someone angry, a conversation of which we get bits and pieces.
This is not Tarantino grade dark comedy, but clearly he was an influence.
Things pick up about the time Elijah Wood enters the film.