Movie 43

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Current Release: Yes
Watched With: Matt, Tim

The Farrelly Brother's very own Kentucky Fried Movie. Except each segment had it's own creative team, making this more like an anthology movie made up of comedy shorts rather than a bunch of sketches. 

And as is the case with all anthology films, there are hits and misses. Unfortunately the misses far outweigh the hits. Like horror, comedy can play very different for an audience depending on personality. For me, far to many of the jokes just fall flat. 

They pretty much all have a great central conceit for each segment. Just the ideas alone are funny enough. The Farrelly's idea of humour is to take an idea and keep playing it out to ridiculous extremes, they seem to think if something is more outrageous it is funnier. This structure plays out through all the shorts, and NONE of them have a good punchline, which is my biggest problem with the film. The set ups are great but then they just add in absurdity and then they can't go any further so they end and go on to the next. 

It's no surprise that the funniest segments are all very short mock advertisements that play between the longer shorts. None of them overstay their welcome and they only need time to set up one funny idea without getting too ridiculous.

That's not to say that I'm against ridiculousness, I'm all for it, and there were a few segments that had some really great moments. But overall they fall flat and without that strong finish they just seem ridiculous for the sake of it. The best reason to watch this film is it's you're a keen 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon player.