Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie

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I was surprised that Dr. Steve Brule didn't make an appearance but John C. Reilly was still hilarious as Tequito. People seem to be upset that many characters from the T.V. didn't show up but there was definitely enough awesome show in the movie. Will Ferrel was O.K., he was funnier when he showed up later in the movie. Will forte was great, Zach Galifanokis was OK. The whole movie wasn't perfect but there were enough hilarious bits to make it worth watching. Not perfect, but by no means a disappointment. I've watched it 4 or 5 times already and I'm still laughing. GREAT JOB

Lets put things in perspective, i love Filmography, I love comedy, I love Dr Who. Put all that to one side i bloody love this film. Its brilliant, side splitting brilliant. Now admittedly not many people will be able to see this kind of humour as funny. Think more Zoolander, Joes apartment, Freddy got Fingured humor. I was going into this with doubt, i cannot say I've ever been to compelled to watch the full season of Tim and Eric. The film however outdoes itself. Laugh factor is outrageous. Most films leave on their funniest joke. Tim and Eric starts with it and then gets funnier threw out. If you watch this entire film and there is something you Don't chuckle at, well something is defiantly wrong with your funny drive. This might not be a family film, however it will go down in stoner history im sure, hell i haven't been high for 6 months now and this is a jolly good laugh. Not to mention the comedy's out atm are so dam dran. Only this , The Muppets and that Stiffler is a hockey player one to look forward to. If you enjoy comedy's, please do watch this film. You will not regret. However do not take anything seriously in this, it really does go there and beyond. This film has become one for my books and they are pretty hard books to get into. Night at the Roxbury legendary status on this puppy. I am defiantly re-watching this when i get smoke in again. My bro says the Stiffler one is meant to be damn good, The Muppets we in the UK had to wait for. Meh, =) Very random review like this film=D Enjoy

I want to start by saying I am a die hard T-n-E fan. 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. Needless to say I was looking forward to this movie for quite some time. Now I sit here preaching to other fans who think the exact same thing. As I'm sure most fans already have seen the movie, I will gear this towards everyone. I don't know whether it was the massive hype that built me up too much, or the style of humor has been exhausted through my countless hours of watching and rewatching all that is Tim and Eric. 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. I hope its none of the above, but I know it is all of the above. My biggest quarrel with this movie (and I know some might persecute me for this view) is the dirty humor. The brilliance of Tim and Eric lies in the not-subliminal-whatsoever absurdness that the style brings. Awesome show was just that. It was shock humor not based on the vulgarity but on the sheer surprise that a mind could conceive of the silliness. This is not new, just new in the way Tim and Eric have mastered the art. But now we bring vulgarity into it. In past shorts they have done, the vulgarity doesn't blend with the creativity well. As a matter of fact, it sort of takes it over. Shock value is great when it is done in a new, fresh, cerebral way. This movie pushed creativity to the side and rooted the shock humor in vulgar ways that just are too easy to do. To me, the movie was one big cheap laugh after the next. This stuff could be funny, even to me, but I expect that from a Will Ferrel movie or an American Pie 36: The Giant Maneating Boob, or something juvenile. The point is that Tim and Eric, who gained my trust as artists worthy of high appraisal, didn't "sell out" (I hate that term) but they damn sure got close. Towards the end of the movie, all I wanted was to watch their "Ooh Mama" sketch to feel some sort of creativity. The next issue I had was the sheer arrogance of these guys. Look, I get it. They are famous and get lots of money to do what they do. As I see or listen to the guys outside of the entertainment, I can't help but feel like these guys are really full of themselves. The gimmicks leading up to the movie, the interviews where they act like they are above their fans. It doesn't have much to do with the movie, but it totally makes me not as psyched when I loose the feeling of "I can see myself partying with these guys". The third issue I have is that when they had an opportunity to say something in the movie (that is, take the movie plot past the silliness and say something such as the ridiculousness of the cinema industry in Hollywood etc) they would always flirt with the idea and then never seal the deal. I often found myself hoping they would do something more to really make a bold and hilarious statement. Often, all lampooning or anything that could be applied to lives outside the movie fell flat. The plot didn't maintain the chiseled roundness I had hoped for in a feature movie. South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut (as well as Team America: World Police for that matter) is the textbook definition of making a statement and hammering it in to make the plot have value. This one did not... not even close. Overall, I had a few laughs but not enough. I was not impressed with the carelessness of the writing and direction that past Tim and Eric projects had. As stated before, I wish they had done something more and something that is at least creative as the Tim and Eric I fell in love with. I hope this isn't me falling out of love with them.

This is simply my favorite current comedians' "Phantom Menace". A purplish stillborn splatting from a pus festering womb on a peepshow floor. NOTHING in this movie hasn't been done much much much better by T&E before. Every gag here is only a fart of a gag that was once a gourmet meal gag before it got digested, ran through 2 intestines, and rectally belched out. Name one new character here as good as Tairy Greene, Casey Tatum and His Brother, Grum, Pierre, Carol and Mr. Henderson, Steve Mahanahan, Jan and Wayne Skylar, Will Grello, Grill Vogel, The Paynus Brothers, The Beaver Boys, Dr. Steve Brule, Spagett, Jim And Derrick, or even Tim and Eric's Awesome Show personas. You couldn't, could you? Let's talk bits. Children spiritually diarrhea-ing on Eric, supposed to be disturbing. Not disturbing; I've seen 2 Girls 1 cup, I've seen Lemonparty, I've seen a million other things online that are more disturbing. So if it's not shocking or disturbing, what is it? Funny? No. The thing that the boys have forgotten is to take their bits into absurd, original areas. The Poop Tube/D- Pants/Diarrheaphragm/Diarrheabetes are funny because they go far beyond the easy potty joke. Let's talk fights. Tim has just had sex with Eric's crush, they fight; they do silly gag punches and kicks, Eric dunks Tim's head in the mall fountain a couple of times. That's the big fight; and I get it, the joke is that it isn't a big fight, but that joke isn't very funny. In the last episode of season 2, T&E fight, same silly gag punches and kicks; only Eric rips out Tim's heart, takes a bite of it, and shoves it Tim's mouth. That's what I call a funny fight! What has happened since then? Everything T&E have done up until now has been a progression. I thought this was a film for their fans? How did they become so lazy? Let's talk great one-liners and catch phrases. Oh, there aren't any. Let's talk the great, memorable songs we've come to expect. Is the Shrim song, or Two Horses, Or DobisPR as good as Bub Bubs, All The Food Is Poison, Sit On You, Come Over, Just A Dream, Hamburgers And Hot Dogs, Live With My Dad, and so on? ABSOLUTELY not! Tim's recent Herman Cain and Madonna Superbowl songs are a million times better. The Movie Watching Chair already done much much better as The Sleepwatching Chair. S'wallow Valley Mall commercial already done much better as the Premium/Discount Prices commercial. Masturbation joke. Already done much better in American Beauty/Due Date/Happiness. So much repetition, more than I care to list. No ambition, no progression, no innovation. The direction is boring, two camera stuff; the Awesome Show camera boys are better at composing frames. Eric Wareheim's music videos are far beyond what is here. The goofs and spoofs are tired, subtle-ized retreads. The cinematography is less professional than the faux professional bits on the Awesome Show. Really awful key lighting (look it up, kiddies). The facial expressions, awkward pauses, odd edits; are again, not even close to what has come before. The only times, I repeat, the only times I have found John C. Reilly, Zach Galifianakis, and Will Ferrell laugh out loud funny was on Awesome Show or T&E's Funny Or Die bits, and those laughs were not to be found here. The only bit I laughed at was Tim's mom's mention of chili dogs... I repeat to people who say you'll like this film if you are already a fan, you must be a real dim bulb or something! The thing that makes me most sad is how they've perfectly parodied the worst in entertainment; lame stand-up comics, SNL, Jay Leno, Hollywood blockbusters, Robin Williams, the Shrek films, etc. And now they've made something just as ABSOLUTELY HORRID as the things they mock and despise.

This movie killed me. 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. They have truly taken their humor to the next level. Like the best comedy, it is truly polarizing. You either love it and think its brilliant or you hate it and think its stupid. The trailblazers in any field are those who take risks and don't worry about pleasing everyone. The rest of TV is like that, which made me love Tim and Eric so much ever since "Tom Goes To The Mayor" because they are so apart from the pack and against the grain. Besides that, this film is just plain hilarious. Dark, sure, not the same as the show, sure. But the key is that its incredibly funny. If you don't like Tim and Eric, you won't like the film. Its that simple. Try watching some of their stuff online, and if you dig it, you will dig the film. They've stayed true to their vision, and have created an amazing film.

Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim have been the kings of underground comedy for the past several years. Their style is usually referred to as anti-comedy, which pretty much means that their comedy is funny precisely because it's just so unfunny. I don't really buy into that description, simply because I do find their work funny. It's awkward as Hell and entirely bizarre, and it just doesn't work for most people. And, yes, I find the fact that so many people don't get it - and get so damned angry that they don't get it - highly amusing, but that's not the only reason I enjoy them. 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. Loggia and his assistant William Atherton (the reporter from Die Hard) demand that they be paid back, and the opportunity to make a billion dollars comes in the unlikely form of Will Ferrell, who insists that he'll pay anyone a billion dollars if they are able to reform his run-down mall. Tim and Eric go to the mall, which resembles a post-apocalyptic wasteland, and apply to be its new PR team. 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. And I thought it was damn hilarious. Sure, there are bits and pieces that miss, but I laughed - and hard - through the great majority of it. Other famous participants include John C. Reilly, Jeff Goldblum, Will Forte and Zach Galifianakis. This is easily my favorite comedy of 2012, but it's a hard one to recommend, since some people get downright murderous when they watch anything by Tim and Eric.

Why bother writing a boring one-thousand word essay about the good/bad points of the movie or a tasteless 'plot' summary? To any critics, pep-peps, skeptics, chippers, fence sitters, scrims, devout T&E fans or haters; expect Tim and Eric in their glory. The performances from all the actors and extras were great. The sets were hilariously creepy and original. The editing, camera work and pace was professional when needed, yet impulsive at times which is of course Tim and Eric's style. Finally, the 'plot' was fittingly unpredictable. I am stoked that Tim and Eric made this happen. This movie is a well-timed satire of the modern day film industry. If you can't laugh at yourself or the world around you, chances are you won't find this movie entertaining.