Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie

Plot synopsis:
Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim are two filmmakers who are given a record-setting $1 billion budget to make a movie. The funds are provided by Tommy Schlaaang and the Schlaaang Corporation. The two waste all of their money on the making of Bonjour, Diamond Jim, a three-minute film (based on a poem by "personal shopper and spiritual guru" Jim Joe Kelly (Zach Galifianakis) who they paid $500,000 a week), plus expensive makeovers, 10-course lunches, real diamonds for Diamond Jim's suit, and a Johnny Depp impersonator. Because of this, the two leave Los Angeles in fear that they will go to prison or be hunted down by the Schlaaang Corp.
After seeing an advertisement for it in a nightclub bathroom, Tim and Eric decide to renovate the S'Wallow Valley Mall run by Damien Weebs (Will Ferrell), in the hopes that they will make back their billion dollar debt. While trying to refurbish the mall, they must deal with vagrants (such as a man-child named Taquito (John C. Reilly), bizarre stores (such as Reggie's Used Toilet Paper Discount Warehouse), and a man-eating wolf that stalks the food court.
During their time at the S'Wallow Valley Mall, Tim and Eric also face many challenges, such as an angry shop owner named Alan Bishopman (Will Forte) who "doesn't want anything to change", and the fact that Eric is in love with Katie (Twink Caplan), a woman who works at the mall (whom Eric also compulsively masturbates to.) Because of this, Tim poisons Eric and ends up making love to Katie, whilst Eric goes to the Shrim Alternative Healing Center, run by Dr. Doone Struts (Ray Wise) to seek "spiritual healing", only to be placed in a bathtub which gets filled with diarrhea by Struts' sons as part of the "spiritual healing". After the event, Eric finds Tim sleeping with Katie and subsequently fights Tim. After the fight, Eric apologizes to Tim for starting the fight and understands why Tim made love to Katie.
They are eventually discovered by the Schlaaang Corporation thanks to Alan. After a dramatic shootout in front of the mall, in which most of the main characters are killed, Tim and Eric manage to kill the members of the Schlaaang Corporation, and are sentenced to death for murder.
However, it is revealed that the preceding events are actually a film the two were showing to Steven Spielberg, who pronounces it the greatest movie ever made. Tim and Eric then celebrate with their Awesome Show co-stars.

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Review:
Hollywood producer Tommy Schlaaang (Robert Loggia - God knows if he's in on the joke or not, but he's hilarious in the movie) has given the duo a billion dollars to make a movie, and the result is a three minute short starring Johnny Depp (or rather an impersonator - everyone swore it was really Depp!) wearing a suit made entirely out of diamonds.
The plot is, of course, ramshackle nonsense and the film feels very much like the work of a sketch comedy team, but I have no problem with that as long as it's funny.
I'm a huge Tim and Eric fan, and I can say without a doubt, if you like their humor, you will love this film.
Having loved and enjoyed Tim and Eric's stuff for years, I couldn't wait to see this film.
I keep reading "OK, you have to be a Tim and Eric Fan to like the movie" and i can honestly say I thought I was one of those people.
I could understand someone falling flat with a feature film considering the length of it but this is like they want to make fun of the viewer by just being as dumb as humanly possible.There is not one single scene I can get back in my mind which would come close to the weird ads, intermissions, zany animations and Characters from the show.
It borders on surreal and if you try to watch it for any reason other than Tim and Eric you're in for a disappointment.Now, let's get this straight: What this movie IS NOT - IS TIM AND ERIC AWESOME SHOW GREAT JOB.I do not know why people came into this thinking it was a movie about the TV show.
I love Awesome Show, Tom Goes To The Mayor was damn good, I love most of their short films, and I am a huge fan of Eric's music videos.
Maybe it is the fact that a crossing of the fine line between my love for Tim and Eric and my hatred for Will Ferrell movies was inevitable.
As a huge Tim and Eric fan, I'd been looking forward to this movie for quite some time, and very simply put, you should go in with your expectations in the medium-low range.
Sadly I couldn't, yes a large percentage of it is childish and purile but for every bad joke there is a really quite good one.Tim & Eric do a decent enough job here and are flanked by a great cast including plenty of cameos.
This by itself was very impressive, my attention was grabbed.Again a lot of it is the most childish level of humour but it's saved by some great gags and I have a feeling this will linger in my mind for a while for both good and bad reasons.If you like random, bizzare comedies then this might be right up your street but be aware this pushes the boundaries in places and isn't for the faint of heart.Passable stuff.The Good:Some really funny stuffGreat castI loved the plotThe Bad:Some of the humour is patheticThings I Learnt From This Movie:If my sex life ever devolves into that I'm moving to YemenThese new health fads are getting out of controlIf people always exploded from gun fire movies would be so much better.
It's a good laugh & a Gretta move.Tim and Eric's Biilion Dollar Movie tells a story about two guys, their son and their adventures.
Starring Jonny Depp and Steve Farrell as a very funny boss.Watch with your friends but not with your family (it contains very sexy scene).Such a great movie you can watch a lot of times and thank you Tim and Eric your my favourite friends.I give Tim & Eric Billion Dollar EXCELLENT stars out of 10 stars..
Great JobBasically Tim and Eric are given a billion dollars to make a movie by the Schlaaang corporation, but waste it.
They try to rehabilitate a bankrupt mall full of vagrants, bizarre stores and a man-eating wolf that stalks the food court in order to get enough money to pay back what they owe.This movie is mostly for Tim and Eric fans but i think even if your not a fan you will love the movie.
Not so much from a narrative standpoint, but in the absolute weirdness of the humor, which, having been taken out of Tim and Eric's usual 45 second sketch format and placed in a feature length film, seems even more jarring than usual.
(if you've seen the movie, you know what I'm talking about) Even so, I'm sure that Tim and Eric understood this, that many would dislike some of these gags, but simply didn't care.
Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie is a wretched comedy with one joke after another falling flatter and flatter as time goes on, desperately careening itself over the ninety minute mark to pass as a sufficient film.
Their movie might as well be named Tim and Eric Disgraceful Film, So Sorry!.I'm prepared to get the backlash of the century, with people from all around the United States telling me how I can't appreciate "real" humor and that I have poor taste in films.
And there is certainly no humor to be found about the depressing event in which a man is running a "used toilet paper" store in the mall.Let me bring you up to speed; Tim and Eric are two morons who are given a billion dollars by the Schlaaang corporation (a name that desperately screams "laugh at us") to create their movie, Diamond Jim. When the movie turns out to be only three minutes in length, and awful for that matter, the company requests a refund.
If you have to resort to making a fictitious PSA for a product that is obviously horrible, don't expect to achieve comedic heights.Granted, Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie is a cult film, and I probably just gave some fanboys the greatest laugh of their day after ranting about the film.
The dialog is thin, the performances laughably bad (probably intentional), and the scent of desperation is so thick it becomes distracting.Starring: Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim, Zach Galifianakis, Will Ferrell, William Atherton, Will Forte, Ray Wise, Jeff Goldblum, and Michael Gross.
To the "fans" of previous Tim and Eric ventures, if you found Awesome Show or Tom goes to the Mayor funny, you'll love this.
Many people absolutely hated this film, most of them probably not being Tim and Eric fans who were unpleasantly baffled by this bizarre comic mess, others being Tim and Eric fans who were disappointed by the film for whatever reason, whether it be because of the admittedly mixed gross-out content or its awkward incorporation of a plot which contradicts the sketch/variety show-ish format of 'Tim and Eric's Awesome Show,' but, honestly, I was super entertained and amused by this movie and find it to be super underrated.
The point is this movie is superb with it's star studded appearances and hilariously executed characters that may or may not have any purpose to the "plot" (although in this Time & Eric production, there is an actual plot I still feel the need to stress the looseness of the term).
I think that the time has finally come now to spill the beans about what is REALLY going on here: the entire careers of Tim and Eric have been nothing more than than a decades-long thought-control experiment financed by shadowy petrochemical magnates to get the American public to hate comedy as a form and want nothing further to do with it for the rest of their lives.In this long-term quest, their efforts reach their zenith with Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie.
They shock and awe viewers with their insanely bizarre deliveries and plot lines and that is what fans of Awesome Show, Great Job love about the duo.This movie is everything I hoped it would be and more.
Next, the live-action "Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!" upset "Tom Goes to the Mayor" fans who were expecting a similar show.
In 2011, Tim and Eric again surprised their fans with the dark comedy short-film "The Terrys," a major departure compared to their previous work.In short, the duo is always adopting new techniques, and therefore, their feature-length debut should not come as a shock.
A recurring criticism is that the film is not an adaptation of "Awesome Show." As another IMDb reviewer has aptly stated, Tim and Eric never promised that they would recycle any aspect of "Awesome Show." While it is in their best interest to please fans, they would never stoop down so low as to rehash a joke for the sake of, in the words of Spaghett, "a goof and a spoof."One could easily imagine what "Billion Dollar Movie" would be like if it were simply a film translation of "Awesome Show." It would probably be in the style of "Kentucky Fried Movie," a collection of randomly linked sequences that would allow for inclusion of most of the "Awesome Show" characters.
In conclusion, "Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie" is a wonderful film that is up to par with their other works.
I think that is normal and both the guys probably would take 1 in 10 as a compliment since they are so over the top bizarre.If you are a Tim and Eric fan or just a fan of the Alternative World, you really need to see this movie.John C Reilly is one of the most talented actors in the world.
I want my money back!" After getting a billion dollars from a producer to make a movie Tim & Eric are surprised when he doesn't like it.
Many of their regular gags are brought in here -- but stretching these gags out merely makes the film seem long and uninspired.For die hard fans of Tim and Eric, however, there are some laugh out loud scenes, such as the unexpected explosion of a few characters toward the end of the film.
Reilley also delivers a sufficiently pathetic performance as a sickly mall maintenance worker, and other supporting actors ham it up with funny results.Ultimately, Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie is a mixed bag at best.
You can beat out all the jokes from most comedies of Ben Stiller or so and there would still be a good or okay movie left over here, just a huge steaming pile of horse shit would be left behind which one in a blender with insulting stupidity and infantilism served us right at the moment where we are most hungry.I wanted to move on relatively quickly but took my courage to watch it to the end and that was a mistake because not only did I lose a piece of my humor, I think I lost a lot of power and tolerance and I have a few IQ points lost and must train pretty hard to regain the lost..
Say whatever you want about Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job and Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie but love them or hate them their comedy is unique and will stick with you.
I'm not a fan of that genre but I have to admit that some of the material in this film really works despite it's complete lack of taste.The story revolves around Tim and Eric receiving $1 billion to make the most expensive movie of all time and blowing it all on themselves while only delivering a three minute movie.
Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar MovieFor a movie that cost one billion dollars to make its money back, producers would have to hold audience members hostage for a billion dollars.Fortunately, the irate producers in this comedy have only decided to harm the makers of their financial flop.Given a billion dollars by Tommy Schlaaang (Robert Loggia) to produce a motion picture of epic proportions, Tim (Tim Heidecker) and Eric (Eric Wareheim) blow it all on luxury items for themselves.Unable to pay back the money, Tim and Eric take shopping-mall magnate Damien Weebs (Will Ferrell) up on his billion dollar offer to run his dilapidated mall, where a wolf stalks the food court.A feature-length version of their bizarre 11-minute vignette show, B$M brings Tim and Eric's surreal safety video feel and oddball ensemble actors to the apex of ironic camp.As for the best thing about managing a shopping-mall: flirting with all the mannequins.
"Plot Points" go no where, like rehabilitating a mall ( which never happens- although a commercial airs for the grand re-opening?), a man eating wolf (that shows up once and dies in that very scene), Tim's new son Jeffery (which is nothing more than an attempt at injecting their patented "dad humor" into the mix- he gets oggled by Tim in a mildly pedophilic manner and is shot by machine guns in mid air after being stolen from his father, a used toilet paper salesman- as boringly unfunny as it sounds), a love interest of Eric's (Tim seduces her, Eric gives her a ring and then she gets shot and dragged outside and shot some more), earning the billion dollars (they don't get the money or seem to care if they do and the Shlaaang corporation doesn't even want the money in the first place- they just want to brutally murder our beloved duo).
This all sounds very bad, but it's really, really funny.I will be completely honest in saying that I absolutely did not get Tim and Eric's sense of humor when I first saw Awesome Show in high school.
That all makes perfect sense and it was exactly what I expected because I was watching a Tim and Eric film.
Call me a blind fan, but B$M was the exact amount of cringe I expected from a full length Tim and Eric movie.
As a fan, I do not get offended when people say Tim and Eric are not funny.
Apart from first time viewers, I also understand a lot of Tim and Eric fans not enjoying this film because of various plot-line and casting issues, and perhaps many fans found it too low-brow to meet their standards but I will once again state that it was exactly what I expected.
As a big fan of Tim and Eric's Adult Swim work, I was looking forward to their first feature film.
You either love or hate Tim and Eric, so there's no point in going into their style of humor and why someone may or may not like it for the umpteenth time.I watched this this morning On Demand, as it's currently being offered before hitting the theaters.
I think its safe to say the majority of us here have explicitly stated that were huge fans of Tim and Eric's, but the problem is that this movie just isn't up to par with their best work.Having thought about it some more since seeing the film, I have to say I'm in agreement with other sentiments echoed here that a really big problem with it is the reliance on gross out humor.
Tim and Eric's Bad Movie...
They've officially broken the number one rule of comedy: It isn't funny if it requires an explanation.The plot, as it were, involves Tim and Eric losing the $1 billion they were given by a Hollywood production company to make their own movie.
First off, let me me follow the trend of all the user reviews for this movie in saying that I've been a big fan of Tim & Eric's Awesome Show, Great Job. While somewhat hit-and-miss at times, the show had many funny characters and always was entertaining to me.
Tim & Eric are the stars, and for most of their fans, that's reason enough for watching.In conclusion, for fans that "get" T&E's humor (which I feel very lame in saying), the movie is great.
First I wanna say something to all the people not familiar with Tim and Eric who watched this movie and hated it: I'm really, really disappointed in you, okay?
First of all, any Tim and Eric fans complaining about the absence of Awesome Show characters, miss the point of the film.
For the fans not expecting an Awesome Show special, the Tim and Eric style is still there in all its surrealistic glory, which is all that matters, and it makes for the perfect antithesis of a Hollywood comedy.
So if you are after Tim and Eric Awesome Shoe Great Job the Movie, don't be disappointed when there are new characters, and new ideas on show.
To those who have never heard of Tim and Eric, don't think of this as a 'Will Ferrell film', open your minds to a new way of thinking about comedy and you just may be rewarded..
This movie is a colossal waste of their time.Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie is completely without a single laugh.
"Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie" is a juvenile, often disgusting attempt at comedy that knows it isn't funny and doesn't even try to be.
Nevertheless, it goes something like this: Two idiots (Tim and Eric) are given a Billion dollars by the Schlaaang Corporation to make a movie but waste it all on such things such as a suit made of diamonds and a spiritual adviser who is paid by the millions.
What kind of fool are you coming into this comedy expecting to find jokes, clever setups and punch lines?" To make things worse, the film is not only abysmal, but it's unmemorable and often cringe-inducing so even if you knew how torturous of an experience sitting through this disaster would be ahead of time, you can't make fun of it on a "so bad, it's good" level.If you are a fan of the show Tim and Eric star in, there is a chance you might enjoy it, but overall it establishes itself as complete garbage very quickly and goes downhill from there.
Folks, I have just watched "Tim & Erics Billion Dollar Movie".