First off: this is a VERY low-budget movie -- low enough they can't even find a make-up person who can EVENLY apply a single color of makeup (blue for Amok, green for Alien Orphan Doug). If stuff like that bothers you, DON'T see this.
OK. The idea is great: focus on a team of superheroes, completely throwing out battle scenes and action scenes, and look instead on their interactions. My big problem with this was that there are just too many characters, even discounting the eights bodies of 8 (one of the more original concepts in the movie, and regrettably hardly even touched upon). Many of the allegedly witty one liners are predictable and stale, and the little bits with the characters talking directly to the camera are distracting and never explained in context.
On the other hand, the action figure commercial is dead-on hilarious, *sometimes* the attempted cleverness of the dialogue works, and if you find stupid humor funny, you'll enjoy both US Bill and Alien Orphan Doug.
I'd wait to rent this after it's moved off the "new release" shelf. Some funny moments, but a little too uneven, with the script a bit too stale in its humor.
OK. The idea is great: focus on a team of superheroes, completely throwing out battle scenes and action scenes, and look instead on their interactions. My big problem with this was that there are just too many characters, even discounting the eights bodies of 8 (one of the more original concepts in the movie, and regrettably hardly even touched upon). Many of the allegedly witty one liners are predictable and stale, and the little bits with the characters talking directly to the camera are distracting and never explained in context.
On the other hand, the action figure commercial is dead-on hilarious, *sometimes* the attempted cleverness of the dialogue works, and if you find stupid humor funny, you'll enjoy both US Bill and Alien Orphan Doug.
I'd wait to rent this after it's moved off the "new release" shelf. Some funny moments, but a little too uneven, with the script a bit too stale in its humor.