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DVD Club Dread (Unrated Extended Edition)
Looking for plenty of sex, violence, and lowbrow comedy? If you are, you could do a lot worse (or is it a lot better?) than to visit Club Dread, a boldly wretched excuse for broad comedy perpetrated by the Broken Lizard troupe--the same guys who brought their potty-mouthed brand of lunacy to bear on 2002's Super Troopers. That alone should serve as ample warning or invitation, depending on your tolerance for way-too-casual sketch comedy, stitched together with an emphasis on big, gross laughs and enough female frontal nudity to give Girls Gone Wild a run for its money. It all takes place on Coconut Pete's Pleasure Island, where Pete (Bill Paxton, slumming it with infectious abandon) holds court while scantily clad vacationers play crazy games (life-size Pac-Man, anyone?) and provide easy prey for a slasher on the loose. Ah, but there's the rub: Is this schizoid movie a comedy or a horror flick? It's both... and neither... and the bloodletting is surprisingly extreme amidst all the poop and fart jokes. Of course, that won't stop Club Dread from finding its audience. We know you're out there…and you know who you are. --Jeff Shannon
Review(s): DVD Club Dread (Unrated Extended Edition)
Not Very Funny
After Super Troopers, I was pretty excited when I heard that the Broken Lizard gang was going to do a comedy/horror. While Super Troopers was far from being a classic, it did have some funny moments and kept me entertained the whole way through. I just didn't find Club Dread funny at all. I almost wish it was a cheesy low budget horror, so I could just laugh at bad acting and production. But obviously this film had talented people and a budget, it just didn't have an entertaining script for me.
So I Felt Like Watching A Stupid Comedy....
...and got exactly what I expected. I was mildly curious about it from reading some reviews here, so I picked it up on sale yesterday (I won't say where), making it that much easier to, well, if not exactly enjoy then at least sit through. About the only things that I got out of it were very few laughs (and not uproariously loud ones at that, either) and a wish that I could have the masseuse abilities that Lars had. The director, playing Putnam, did about the most godawful fake British accent that I've ever heard. I could do better than him! Ok, with a bit of practice, but still.
Anyway, there also is nowhere near "enough female frontal nudity to give Girls Gone Wild a run for its money" as Amazon's review above would have you believe because there really just wasn't a whole heck of a lot of it. The biggest number of nude or topless females that you'll see is one scene towards the end where all the guests are cavorting around the pool area but it's such a short scene that you don't see all that many females for very long. At least the girls were all, of course, pretty cute.
However, even with all the red herrings thrown around, it's still pretty obvious that the killer is...
*gack!*
*gasp!* The killer is...
*swoooosh!*
*thud!*
Stupid fun scare
There is a thin line between a horror movie and a parody of a horror movie. "Club Dread" oscillates without effort between the two. Just add a word in the dialogue, make a facial expression, or change the camera angle, and it's stupid instead of scary.
Now, I happen to like both stupid (e.g. Zoolander, Dumb & Dumber) and scary so I liked this one. Starts with some people that are so annoying that you want them to get killed, and then develops into something like a long, unusaully well made episode of "Sun of the Beach". Bad humor, people on a beach, a crime (or many) to solve, bikini chicks, bad humor, and some people on the beach. Add the horror element, and you've got it.
Machete Pete (or whoever it is with the machete) is scary, while the personnel on the island are kind of stupid. Together they take horror to where it always seem to aim. Stupidity and death. Yes, it works. No, it's not brilliant.
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