Reviews: "Seeking Justice" & "Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie"
First up, a little bit of news on The Snob movie, plus I talk about the new Nic Cage flick.
Then Jerrid and I talk about the Tim and Eric movie.
Then Jerrid and I talk about the Tim and Eric movie.
Tim and Eric seem to be one of those comic duos that you either find hilariously entertaining or fucking can't stand. I have never met someone who is neutral or only mildly entertained by them.
For what it's worth, I enjoy their work. Patton Oswalt (also a big fan) summed up my reasons for liking them pretty well.
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I love how you said "...what's happening" right before "Like in The Happening."
It made it even more of a reference even if it was unintentional.
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Tim and Eric might be the most polarizing thing on the planet. Out of everyone I know, I can count the number of people who have seen a full episode and thought it was funny on one hand.
That said, I think they're amazing. I don't really know how to describe why I think it's funny; maybe it's just seeing this 90s mentality of awful greenscreen, bright colors, bad editing techniques, and ugly 'edgy' entertainment shat into the most bizarrely hideous comedy to ever grace television. I think for most of the world, it's a show better sampled than sat through ("Little Danson Man" is something you need to watch pronto if you haven't).
I'm not claiming to 'get it', because I don't think there's anything to 'get'. Either you think it's funny or it's not.
One more thing I'll add is that these guys are considered 'the comedian's comedians' in that people like Will Ferrell, David Cross, Bob Odenkirk, John C. Reily, Zach Galifniakis, et al, think they're some of the most talented people working today.
I'll see the movie eventually but I'm a little intimidated by a 90-minute Tim and Eric project.
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I think you're right, but I also think the show gives off some sort of vibe that makes you think there IS something to get, and it makes me feel stupid and uncomfortable because I don't find it personally funny. Like with most comedy, you either a) find it hilarious, b) get it and appreciate it without laughing, or c) you clearly see a shitty joke and you feel free to condemn it. T+E feels like it transcends all those categories.
My bf ADORES it, which makes it all the more weird when he shows me a clip and I'm like "... '_' ..." while he sits there cackling.
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I watched the show for the first time tonight and I thought it was pretty funny.
As far as getting it, I've only seen a few episodes, but I would call it more of a parody of 80s and 90s cable television than anti-humor. The look of the video, the bad cgi and green screening, the soft focus karaoke singing...
They take the feeling of low budget tv (the landscape channel, public access, 'this old house', local car commercials) to the extreme. The jokes don't have punch lines because the humor is in the atmosphere, at least when the show works. Some of it falls flat.
I'd consider the show closer to Spinal Tap and the fake Grindhouse movie trailers than Tom Green's or Family Guy's anti-humor. Haven't seen the movie though.
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Where's my Chippy?...... i'm outta here
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One more thing and then I'll leave. Somebody once asked me if I liked Tim and Eric. When I said yes, the guy said with a completely straight face and no hint of irony, "There should be camps for people like you."
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Don't you just hate those assholes?
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No. There really should be camps for people like you.
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The only good episode is the one where Tommy Wiseau guest-stared.
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I really like Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job. I didn't care much for the movie, except for the first 20 minutes. It was like they said, a movie is just way too long for their sort of humor.
And for complete disclosure, I was baked off my ass when I saw it.
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Atleast Brad has legitimate reasons for hating a movie. If it were Josh, the review would go something like this "ugh, it's new, I hate it; bah! Wait, what movie are we talking about? Whatever, it's new, it sucks."
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I love the fact that Brad was able to draw a parallel between Tim & Eric and Terrence Malick, of all people...another testament to his grand imagination.
I've always been neutral towards Tim & Eric. I mean, I *get* their humor and can see what they're going for, it's just personally not all that appealing to me. I doubt I could stomach 90 minutes of their schtick.
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how is that comment neutral?
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yeah i heard tim and eric is only good if your high or really tired
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Tim and Eric made a movie?! Uh, why?!
Hell Aqua teen made a movie, and at least that was funny, and I didn't have to be high.
Tim and Eric are not funny.
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speaking of aqua teen hunger force colon, movie for theatres. me and my friends made a drinking for that movie. take a drink every time something stupid happens. of course it never last long and everyone is shit faced within in ten minutes .
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How do Tim and Eric keep getting work? they fucking suck www.notforair.supportstluciecounty.com/Index.html
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As a huge Tim and Eric fan, this movie was satisfactory (wasn't high). I noticed, like you said, the rip-off of AustinPowers. But the thing about T&E is that Tim and Eric know what they are creating. I think somewhere in the review you said someone would say this, but that's what's happening. They know what they are doing. The 10 minutes of the Shrim Bath was ridiculous. But these guys know that when they wrote it, people like you wouldn't enjoy it. This movie was written for the fans.
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Okay I admit to kind of enjoying a few episodes of Tom Goes to The Mayor. Like Jerrid said it's essitanlly "Tom Goes to the Mayor and gets fucked with" which sometimes kind of worked but other times was just horrible due to the fact that neither Tom or the Mayor were funny character and their banter with each other usually wasn't any good. However yeah any good will towards that show was SUNK when I saw Tim and Eric. I hated every episode I saw of the show but like Jerrid I'm a big Adult Swim fan (I also remember the day it first started BTW and watching the shows that came on) so I watched until one episode literally made me sick and I said " i'm done. Fuck you Tim and Eric. I hope you seriously die of some sort of joint cancer you bastards." And yeah I've hated them and most everything they've touched completley since then. So yeah even moreso then Smurfs or even Spy Kids 4 I commend you for sitting through this movie since yeah 11 minutes of their shitck is disgusting. But 90 minutes, without TV restrictions and allowed to do whatever they want? Oh god. It hurts to even imagine outloud so yeah glad to see you tear into these assholes. A few things though.
1. Jerrid's incorrect about Tim Heidecker appearing on Birdman. Tim and Eric made a cameo in an Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode but they never appeared in Birdman at all.
2. Tim and Eric had the Tom goes to the mayor as a short flash cartoon. That wound up getting popular enough to have David Cross appear as other celebs actually seemed to like the two's anti humor. And considering some of AS's choices (even back and 2004 and espiecally now) they did as well and greenlit Tom Goes to the mayor, and then Tim and Eric and even a stupid fucking spinoff of T&E about Steve Brule.
3. This may be a difference of opinion but I disagree with calling ATHF Anti-Humor. Yeah it has some absurd and weird situations and a lot of it comes off as rather nonsensical, but I think that's more Random Humor then antihumor. ATHF is the kind of show warped middle school or high schoolers would think of involving things just happening sometimes because it being funny and not putting much of an effort on tying things together. It's the kind of humor most people would grow out of but I guess not Dave Willis or Matt Maileraro (ATHF creators) as it's what they go with. Still it's not anti humor as it's SUPPOSE to actually still be funny and clever and the joke of it not just being they're not funny. It's esstainlly just "Three's compnay on acid" as they described it. Yeah it is better then Tim and Eric and even when Family Guy tries it's stupid anti humor long joke bull shit they think is funny but isn't.
Otherwise though very solid review you guys. And heh whenever you make Jake see a kiddie movie this summer you can at least say "hey I didn't make you see Tim and Eric's Gay Ass Shitty Random Fuck Film".
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Ah, I just double-checked and I was thinking of Eric Richter. I knew there was a tim/eric in there, but my bad.
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I liked tom goes to the mayor. I feel like so much less effort went into the show that it lost its charm.
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Austin Powers came out in 1997.
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Though I love Gerard Butler as an action star, I didn't like Law Abiding Citizen for its overly-ridiculous moments. The cell phone death scene still bothers me. At least The Brave One tried to do something different with a female character and it worked out well.
Speaking of Nic Cage, I'm wondering if you're planning on doing a Midnight Screening of Ghost Rider 2. I hated the first one, but the second one seems tempting with the crazy action and the 3D.
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I enjoy Tim and Eric.
I enjoy Brad Jones.
Best of both worlds.
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@James Dude I agree. It would be hilarious to see him sit through it though. I think many have tried telling him it's not 1983 anymore.
Anyway Tim & Eric suck ass. The aqua Teen movie is a fucking classic compared to this.
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Tim and Eric made a movie? Why? I have seen youtube poops that were funnier than these clowns.
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Yeah I agree that they're the kind of guys you either love or completely hate. In my opinion, I find the show entertaining and since you put in retrospect about how the movie is a 90 minute episode and some 15 minutes of their humor is enough. I might be with you guys on it being terrible. I'm just going to watch it to see for myself lol.
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I loved this movie and I loved the show that came before.
Yes it's totally anti-humor and most people don't find it funny. I get that, I get it in the in the same way people find humor in Dane Cook.
Quite frankly I find the current trends in humor boring. Tim and Eric was a refreshing twist on comedy. I love the awkwardness, I love the pronounced sound effects, I love the "bad" editing.
Not every joke is a home run but I think the fact that it does something different warrants a look at the pair if you've become dishearten with todays comedic media.
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Oh, Honestly, Brad & Jerrid! You act like T&E killed your dog or something. They just made a movie that was never meant to be enjoyed by you. But then, I'm a huge fan of Freddy Got Fingered. However, I don't act like I'm a better or smarter person because I like FGF and T&E. They just touch a certain aspect of my sense of humor that I can't explain or justify. So if you ask me "Why do you enjoy this shit?", I can only say "Because I do, and if you don't, I completely understand why." I don't think you don't "get it", and I'm definitely not going to try to make you see it the way I see it, because that's an impossible task.
Having said all that, I do think there are 3 kinds of stupid humor: Acting Stupid, Being Stupid, and Thinking I'm Stupid. T&E are Acting Stupid, and as such, I can enjoy it in small doses. "The Room" is Being Stupid, and as such, is thoroughly entertaining. However, "Epic Movie" is Thinking I'm Stupid, and as such, I loathe it. There is a difference between willingly shutting your brain off for the sake of enjoyment, gazing wonderingly at gross incompetence, and just plain insulting my intelligence. I don't think T&E are insulting my intelligence in the way a Seltzerberg movie does, nor are they as woefully ignorant, and thus as entertaining, as a Wiseau or Nguyen film.
Honestly, I don't mean to come off like a T&E fanboy, and if I am, I assure you I'm not. Much like you, Brad, I'd rather watch The Room or ATHF than T&E, and think TGTTM was a superior show to TAEASGJ.
Okay, I'll just shut up now.
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I tried to watch more than one episode of Awesome Show. I got a kick out of Tom Goes to the Mayor for the most part becuase of what Jarrid said. "Tom goes to the mayor and gets fucked with." That's very true, and for the most part it was funny. But that too wouldn't be funny in a 90 minute format. But Awesome Show was painful at times to watch. The other actors do what they can with the "humor" or "anti-humor" but Tim and Eric themselves are just not funny. I understand the poor delivery is supposed to be part of the humor, but even that they fuck up horribly. I don't understand how they get such talented people to appear in their stuff. And yeah Tim is in Bridesmaids and thank god he says very little. I recall an episode of Jon Benjamin Has a Van (which is pretty funny, funnier than these guys) where the two of them appeared and I found myself laughing some. I thought "Wait. Tim and Eric? They're making me laugh? But they're not funny." Then again they probably had people writing for them. I don't mind shitty effects and editing for the sake of the joke (Lost Skeleton of Cadavra is funny because of those reasons) but the "jokes" suck. With that said, I can kinda see why people find it funny, if that's what you're in to. I doubt I could sit through a whole 90 minutes though. At least the show is 15 minutes an episode.
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*Jerrid
Had a feeling someone would point out the misspell and go all troll on my ass.
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A much funnier movie would be me making sweet love to Jerrid for 90 minutes. Well, maybe not funny, but it'd certainly be erotic.
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Man, I have tried to watch Tim and Eric a thousand times and can't get through one episode. I mean I hate the Mighty Boosh, but I can watch an episode...I don't know what it is about this show, it just makes me mad. I got nothin, guess I'm just more of a Venture Bros girl.
Excited to hear an update about the Snob movie though, can't wait.
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Here's the great thing about this film; since it's a Magnolia Pictures production (Mark Cuban's distribution company), it's airing on February 29th on HDMovies if you have it. For free.
Which is the exact amount you should probably pay for it judging from this review. I shall be doing that to check it out.
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I loved the Tim & Eric movie. I have seen all of their shows and loved those. What works for me is that they take a lot of the surreal and very awkward nature of a David Lynch movie and mix with public access tv and infomercials. I like how even the dumbest stuff like poop jokes end up having some hidden layers to the comedy. It's dumb humor but there's reason to watch it again and pick up something subtle. It's very much love it or hate it and I thought the movie really captured their brand of humor to the T.
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I look at Tim & Eric, I see their jokes, and I see the people who laugh at them. The anti-humor joke structure is reminiscent of the Joker's maternity ward joke from "Arkham Asylum: A Serious Place on Serious Earth."
So I'm left with a vague fleeting impression of a metric fuck-ton of people who find the Joker legitimately funny and not psychotically intimidating, all going to theaters or hanging out in groups in general.
I "get" how their anti-humor works, but "funny because it's not funny" doesn't work except from a backwards perspective. This brand of anti-comedy thrives on generations who seem to have developed incorrectly and adapted to society based solely on terrible day-time/late-night television and youtube poop.
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U jelly?
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If you put this much thought into it, the entire point has already been missed
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Yeah, sure it was. How bout this. Long review short, I didn't think the movie was funny.
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Yeah, there you go. There IS no goddamn point, and if it doesn't tickle your fancy, that's about it. Amazing how THIS topic brings out the most pseudo-psychologist cockstains in your comment section
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There aren't many things on this planet that I hate with the ferocity that I hate Tim and Eric. Something about two femmy douchebags that apparently think they're so good at legitimate comedy, despite never once having proven such, that they decided to intentionally do the exact opposite must just fill me with murderous hatred. Honestly, I'd rather get a particularly aggressive form of eye cancer than watch a 90 minute episode of their spastic 3rd grader, public access horseshit. Sucking really bad at comedy, then saying you're doing so on purpose does not make you funny, it makes you an irritating dipshit. Kindly fuck off.
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No the point is, if you should happen to read this, is that it's all a joke. Not a joke in the normal terms, not a it's funny cause it's not style, it's a joke on you, me, and everyone else watching. You slipped on the point early in the review, in and of it's like the Tree of Life...basically, they produce it simply because people will think it's genius, when in fact its tripe.THATS the joke
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How bout I just cut through that middle man watch something that actually is good.
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The sheer fact that this abortion of a show got a movie is enough to enrage me. It's probably the only show I have ever watched where I found the lack humour insulting, and my favourite kind of humour is absurd humour. That's pretty bad. Oh, I'm talking about Tim and Eric if that's not clear.
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Hey Brad have you seen The Grey yet? I thought I remembered you tweeting about it but haven't seen a review yet. If you have seen it I would love to know what you thought.
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"Brad And Jerrid's Billion Dollar Movie"
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Do you know what is bad in Anti-humor?
- It's not funny.
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What Brad tells there about "it's funny because it's not! get it?" Reminds me shockingly of experience with "Rabbit without ears". Does ayone sharethis feeling?
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The "very expensive movie goes wrong" idea has been kicking around as a Muppet film for ages. It's called "The Cheapest Muppet Movie Ever Made" and the concept is that Gonzo spends all of the money on the opening credits. The quality of the movie then steadily declines.
The Muppets could easily pull this off, but few other comedy teams alive could attempt it. (That said, "The Cheapest Marx Brothers Movie Ever Made" is a lost theoretical cinematic masterpiece.)
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I think it must appeal to a certain bunch of people with "bad wiring" and maybe thats what pot does to people it gives them a terrible sense of humor. Has stoner humor ever appealed to a non-stoner.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZlssB9u-Lw&feature=related
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If actual work is put into it, a stoner comedy can be funny while sober. The ultimate example is Half Baked.
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Yes tim and eric just blow, we in Australia got it on our paid tv service not long ago, it was advertised for about 3 to 4 weeks and I have not seen it advertised since. Such a shitty ass show that not all the weed in the world would make them 2 untalented hacks funny. the movie sounds fucked and i will not be watching it
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If you want to get high on drugs and watch a movie featuring Zach Galifianakis, I would suggest you go with Disney's "G-Force" instead of Tim & Eric's film.
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Jesus Christ I don't even like Tim and Eric but this review was just going "I don't like this therefore it sucks"
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Ha! Yeah if it's a comedy that sucks, I tend not to like it. That's sort of how that works.
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That makes too much sense, which doesn't make any sense in relation to a Tim & Eric movie.
GET IT!? *Stare uncomfortably at camera*
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God, I'm right there with Jerrid and his hatred of Tim and Eric. As a longtime fan of Adult Swim, the rise of Tim and Eric combined with the loss of shows like Harvey Birdman was really shitty to watch. It's just absolutely mind-boggling that so many people enjoy something so intentionally unfunny. The show itself is the punchline, and I'm sure the two of them are laughing about it all the way to the bank. Tim and Eric are reincarnations of Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer
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What the hell, I'll talk some more:
There is a difference between being good and being successful in your intentions, especially since "good" in and of itself is an incredibly subjective term. I can eat a really good cheeseburger, or this rat poison does a good job killing rodents, but I wouldn't put rat poison on my cheeseburger. However, if I wanted to kill someone, I would put said poison on said cheeseburger. Essentially, T&E are intentionally feeding us poison cheeseburgers, and if you get pissed off about that, they have succeeded in their intentions. The more pissed off you get, the more they have succeeded. Because the opposite of love is not hate, it's apathy. I don't hate Seltzerberg movies, I'm completely indifferent to them. So if you don't want to fall into T&E's clutches, quit getting all pissed off about their bullshit. Just say "not my cup of tea", and get on with your fucking life. And when you do that, T&E have failed in their intentions, and YOU are the winner!
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From now on, next time I make a movie, I'm going to say that it's intentionally supposed to be bad, that way no one can criticize it for sucking =)
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NOW you're getting it!
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Yep. And the movie still sucks.
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So what your saying is that T&E are trolls with a tv show and a movie?
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YES! That's EXACTLY what they are! And you know what happens when you feed a troll...?
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Tim & Eric's show was such oddball comedy that I couldn't help but love it. Watching people totally rip it apart is another reason I like the show (The love it/hate it groups). That being said I can totally agree that Tim & Eric for 15 min. is probably more tolerable than 90 min.
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I LOVE Tim and Eric!!!! I figured that the old school low budget look would tickle your guys fancy...
Dr. Steve Brule!!!!!! For your health!
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BTW, I am not a stoner... I am in recovery for God's sake! I have always loved that off the wall, Surreal, non-nonsensical comedy...
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I... I THINK I like Tim and Eric. Im not sure. Here is my attempt at explaining what I think about it and why I think I might like it. Maybe.
I don't think the humor of Tim and Eric is about "wink-wink its funny because its not". Its more about "things arnt going as planned, this is a mess, please look away".
Its more like a trainwreck of awkwardness, its like stumbling on some weird home videos you shouldn't be watching, or stumbling on some strange, old community TV program made by people who never touched a camera before. For example, where some people are playing characters, but their real persona is awkwardly showing through, like having a weird, out-of-place dark underbelly on a stupid sitcom.
Everything they do has a sort of strange malaise that feels like you shouldn't be watching this, like you found an old tape full of horrifying strange things. At times it becomes funny, at times its uncomfortable, at times its just weird, at times its awkward. Sometimes it just turns horrifying and scary, even, or disgusting. Its like a weird surprise, you never really know where its going to go next. But its always... something, I guess?
If there is one thing I can see as a truly "recurring theme" in all Tim and Eric clips ive seen, its having a weird "story" being told, with actors playing it out or the director of the clip who are weird in another way, or act out of character. Like a guy giving acting classes to kids, who has weird anger management issues of his own coloring how he says everything and making him lash out. Or a story that ends in violence, but where the violence is awkwardly drawn out and extended so much that it seems pornographic, like the director is getting off on it and that is coloring the end product. Or camera angles that are kept a bit too long, and other weird editing.
I dont know! Thats my attempt at explaining why I like it. Im not even sure I like it. I think I do???
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We're just going in circles now.
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I would just like to say that I smoke marijuana almost every day and I have never enjoyed Tim & Eric. I think the stoners that rave about their material give more sensible stoners like myself a bad reputation.
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Hey fuck you Brad. Im high most of my for the time Im awake and have neave found Tim and Eric Shit Show Bad Job even an onuce funny. Geat reviews btw.
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"Brad And Jerrid's Billion Dollar Movie" needs to be the next Brad and Jerrid episode.
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I am totally for that!
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Jerrid you watch adult swim? how awesome is China IL?
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...worse than Freddy Got Fingered? I guess I can see that. If both movies have a complete lack of humour, at least FGF had gross scenes that made you grossed out. The most base, basic, pedantic, and low form of humour, but at least it accomplished what it wanted to with that scene.
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I'm in the minority of Tim & Eric fans on here I guess. It's not meant to be "Funny because it's not funny", it's more about being nonsensical & surreal. I believe T&E themselves describe the show as "the nightmare version of television."
I'd compare the Awesome Show to the Find The Fish segment from Monty Python's Meaning of Life. The movie makes an abrupt stop for something bizarre, unrelated, and disturbingly humorous before moving back along to the next scene. T&E is like one Find The Fish segment after another, but ranging from awkward to completely nuts. There's nothing to get, you either enjoy the absurdity of it or you don't I guess.
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I don't care what you say Brad and Jerrid, Tim and Eric are awesome. It's a combination of surreal humor, black humor, and anti-humor. It's not "funny because it's not funny". It's funny because it's so bizarre and yet feels so familiar - episodes where they explain things like "Bowl" (BAT MEETS OWL), and they advertise it exactly as though it were a barbie doll, but gradually grow towards the ad being disgusted with the doll just as real people would -
"Your pets will LOOK at bowl. Put it in the trunk of your car, and forget about it!" I think Tim and Eric perfectly summed up Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job! with the phrase
"It's the nightmare version of television" - it's a parody of public access (which is funny because it's so BAD, and Tim and Eric use the same effect in their show), it's a parody of pretty much all TRASH TV, and most of all, it DOES resemble a dream like state - ideas don't flow, they just randomly switch. There will be scenes where it's just some weird image playing to a loud noise and then suddenly switch.
It perfectly captures the FEEL of a nightmare and the FEEL of Television. Everything Television is got inbred, regurgitated, and then fed to the masses. Then THAT got inbred, regurgitated, and then became Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job!
Scenes like The Poop Tube crack me up, as do The Universe, Brules Rules, Cinco Ijammer and Ebumper, it's all a really clever parody of something about Television, presented like a TERRIBLE version of it.
And to be honest, I could stand a 180 minute version of that if the movie was that long.
So call this me disagreeing, but this is the first time where Brad's opinions felt downright WRONG to me. Tim and Eric are geniuses in the craft of reckless stupidity.
It's Eraserhead meets The Office meets Adult Swim Shows meets Public Access. And I love ALL of those things. So call me a fanboy, but Tim and Eric know what they're doing. Also, I think they are talented comedians (after all, who do you think WROTE the celebrity's funny parts?)
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And all of that would be AWESOME if it were actually funny or amusing. It's none of that to me, but I'll never take Tim & Eric away from you, you can keep them, they're yours.
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Well, thank you Brad. I'm glad to see that you don't begrudge the fans their joy. For a while there, it felt like you were saying "this is bad and you're bad for liking it".
Considering how little a fan of T&E I really am, I really am defending them an awful lot, aren't I? I guess I doth protest too much, huh?
And with that, I promise not to post on this thread again!
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whats the news with midnight heat 2??? ...also, we need more episodes of "the big box"
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"Midnight Heat 2" is going to be shot in the summer.
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I'm really surprised Jerrid doesn't like Tim and Eric. For years, I had just assumed he was doing the same anti humor schtick for this website.
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come on, leave Freddy Got Fingered alone! I love it and I think if a lot of people were to see it again now, they might just like it. I think the scene that best portrays the movie, is when Tom Green is pitching his idea to Anthony Michael Hall and Hall just tells him that his idea is fucking stupid...and then he gives Tom advice and he takes it literally.
Tim and Eric's show kicks the crap out of Aqua Teen. Gonna wait to see the movie in theaters.
Bling that boogie!
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I didn't like "Tom Goes to the Mayor" & I din't like "Tim & Eric Awesome Show, Great Job" so I wouldn't like this movie either.
Now if this had been a "Mighty Boosh" movie, I would have paid to see that.
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Ah, Brad and Jerrid, you have won me over even more by calling out Tim & Eric for the crap sack it is. I seriously don't see how anyone can find it funny other than complete morons (don't care if that sounds mean) and I think they're even bigger morons when they try to justify it with the lame excuse of "it's not supposed to make sense" or "it's supposed to be stupid that's why it's so funny". No, because something doesn't have to be stupid, period, to be funny.
Jerrid, I share your sympathies man. I too remember a time when Adult Swim was good and entertaining. Unfortunately it went down the shitter when they decided to start pandering to the lowest common denominator audience with the mind-numbing garbage they air on that station! I weep for it because it was such a big part of my childhood growing up. I watched Space Ghost: Coast to Coast religiously, it was one of my favorite cartoons! But whoever's idea it was to start making that kind of shit programming like Tim & Eric decided it was a good idea to rape my childhood and any respect I had for them went out the window.
Oh, and just because you have "actors" (I use that term loosely since they themselves are devoid of talent) guest star on your show, doesn't make it any better or funnier.
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The people who find Tim and Eric's Awesome Show, Great Job! funny are the same people who feel that Fred is the funniest web comedian ever. Some people are just so amused by stupidity that they will come up with any pretensious reason they can to say why what they like is gold. I feel for Jerrid too because I remember back when Adult Swim was funny too. That was before every night was just reruns of Family Guy or American Dad and the original programming was actually funny. I totally agree about the cameos in this movie too. The only humor to be found out of them is laughing when you realize that they are in your movie. If you are going to make a movie, make sure that you actually have more material than just the crap you would put on your show but with a bigger budget. However, I do know many fans of Tim and Eric who considered this movie the worst piece of garbage they have seen since the Garbage Pail Kids movie. With that in mind, I like to hold on to the hope that maybe Tim and Eric are finally fading out and we can get back to the quality programing of the past.
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Never heard of these guys before (EU dude here). Watched the trailer. This is just really "laugh or I shoot" humor that fails at least 90% of the time. I doubt this is any worse or better than all those [insert adjective] Movie vehicles though, probably same crap caliber.
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Speaking of early Adult Swim, what do you think of 12. Oz Mouse?
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I'm surprised at the intensity of opinion here! As I see it, there really isn't much point to "debating" comedy, any more than there is a point to "debating" which girls you think are hot. These things are purely matters of personal taste.
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you a fat faggot and you need to go rape your mother in her vag while she is having her period. If you dont like the show dont watch the movie you fat faggot and also since you clearly havent watched the show enough you wont get the jokes, go get terminal brain cancer and AIDS and die you fat fucking shithead
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@Jim: OH MY GOD! WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU?
Listen, I'm a fan of Tim and Eric, but I can disagree with the opinion expressed by Brad and Jerrid without, I don't know, ACTING LIKE THE TYPE OF CLASSLESS STEREOTYPICAL TROLL MOTHERFUCKER THAT GIVES INTERNET COMMENTERS A BAD NAME!
As I've learned from my own experiences dealing with people who troll or send me threats in response to my political editorials (which is probably why I'm so passionate about this now), it's easy to say horrible things to another person when you will never be held accountable for it. Being a dick when you're writing anonymously online requires no skill and no courage. All it takes is a keyboard and an absence of brain cells.
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Am the only one that would love to see Cinema Snob review Tim and Eric (when it comes out on DVD).
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I totally get why you don't like tim and eric it's a very specific kind of humor. but just so you know saying that this movie would make a great double feature with the room is probably the highest compliment you could give it, because tim and eric have said that the room is in fact their favorite movie and they've actually had tommy wiseau on their show as a guest star
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Seeking Justice
I heard of this one in passing and I might look at it on tv if it's shown on basic cable someday!
I like Cages movies too.. haven't seen them all but working on it!
I haven't seen the Tim and Eric review yet but I just wanted to say I hate those guys o much! and from what you just mentioned here in the Nic Cage review you seem to either!
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Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie
Thank you! I hate this show and those 2 guys with a passion! And God I forgot all about Freddy Got Fingered! That movie was so terrible I'm still pissed I had to see it! God I hate that guy too and I'm glad he's basically gone now too!
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Tim and Eric, to me, represent what two guys with some clip art, and a sense of "goddamn we're brilliant" can do to wreak havoc.
It's great that some comedians I like love them, have at, to me it's about as mind blowing as a drunk txt I send to my ex at 3am. Funny? Maybe, worth a whole show, even fifteen minutes long? No. I get it, we find them funny because they're not trying, or they like being the guys who throw the random. Those are the guys you avoid at work, why give them a show?
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I like "random" absurdist comedy. I was a fan of Tom Green back in the day. I love Freddy Got Fingered. I'm still a huge fan of the Jackass crew to this day. But I can't stand Tim and Eric. I've tried. I want to like them but I can't. They always cast people much funnier than them (John C. Reilly, Patton Oswalt, Zach Galifanaikis, Paul Rudd, etc) to be on their shows which shows how unfunny they actually are.
Oh, and the whole "stars make a bad movie at the beginning then do stuff to completely forget about it" plot was done WAY better in Strange Brew.
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Well there's a reason for that. Tim and Eric aren't absurdist comedy, not even close. They're not even comedy for that matter.
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Thanks for giving us an update on the Snob movie - really looking forward to it.
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Can't wait for the Cinema Snob movie!!
Ya know, I've always been curious how you felt about Aqua Teen Hunger Force; that was like an added bonus to an already good review! I AM curious tho: Did you feel the same way about the ATHF movie as you did about the ATHF show?
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so you hate those repetition jokes but like family guy?
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No, I don't like Family Guy. I liked them in the first few years, but when they started doing repetitive anti humor shit like that I quit watching fast. I've criticized Family Guy quite a bit on here.
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the filme was called ASS and that all it was for 90 mins.
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I'm glad I wasn't the only one who thought this. Tim and Eric seem to be proof that the movie Idiocracy is coming true.
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Tim and Eric i don't get it myself just cant see how its funny but the mighty boosh is brill but thats surreal comedy too wonder why don't get tim and eric.
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So I just watched the review. I hate Tim & Eric. Just the idea that people are out of work and starving while these idiots put out trash day after day and get paid makes me want to strange them. I mean it's terrible, unfunny crap. Crap they like to put into commercials and interrupt other shows with.
Lastly... yikes you paid $10 for this pile of trash? That's more than I pay for a new first-run feature in the movie theater around here. (There's a place here called Cinema Cafe which is a movie theater that also serves a full menu of food which has tickets running from $4.75 for a matinee, $8.25 and $3.50 for a ticket on Wednesday. I probably wouldn't bother seeing a new release movie if it wasn't for them.)
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90 minutes Tim and Eric episode? HELL YEAH! I love that there is a show that understands the insanity of public access television. I sit down and watch Public Access TV on Saturday nights and see some crazy shit. I'll pay to see this movie.
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i actually thought the tim & eric movie was alright. not great, but decent. granted, i was a little stoned when i watched it. i don't understand why anyone that doesn't like the show would even attempt watching the movie, though. once i heard that brad's only seen 2 episodes and the bald dude hates it, i didnt really need to watch their review on the movie.
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I don't know why I love the show. Its like an addiction to me and my girlfriend.
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I think by 'people owing producers money that they squandered/took' plus 'good' equals The Producers. That concept has already been done well. Sure it wasn't really about them being paid for a movie, but still.
I think adding 'requiring a movie' all I am reminded of is when mall rats had stan lee for no other reason than he had no idea what else to spend all the money for the movie on. But even then, you'd be talking about the people who made a movie, not characters in a movie doing something and having to take responsibility for it.
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There was a time when I would watch Adult Swim (mostly because it was the time where I started habitually staying up late but hadn't yet discovered the internet). Those times are behind me now, partly because a lot of those shows had an air of bleakness about it that just rubbed me the wrong way, especially Aqua Team Hunger Force. Not to say they were bad shows necessarily, but they didn't do it for me a lot of the time.
Every so often I'd come back to see what was what, and found the things that replaced the old stuff to be just absolute shit. I think Marz Girl did a video about the state of "adult" cartoons found on Adult Swim.
As for Anti-Humor, I find it works in very short bursts, and used sparingly. Like as a means of occasionally breaking expectations and going against an obvious joke. But many times, writers seem to think that by milking this Anti-Humor for all its worth, they can power past the stage where it stops being funny, past when the viewer starts to get pissed, and finally to the viewer just laughing out of desperate mania.
Family Guy is by far the worst offender. Used to be it used actual jokes that were funny. The thing that typifies Family Guy's downward spiral is a recent episode I caught a glimpse of while waiting for TF2 to load a map. Peter is homeschooling his kids, and for a reason I can't hope to understand, he ends up referring to the so-called "Gayest Music Video Ever". It was some song with David Bowie and Mik Jagger, that admittedly was pretty queer. I know this, because the show played the ENTIRE MUSIC VIDEO. From beginning to end.
There are reasons I don't watch television all that much anymore (aside from the Hub of course). This is one of them. Family Guy played an entire music video and expected me to laugh. Fuck you Seth Green.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have to watch some My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. Why? BECAUSE THAT SHOW IS ACTUALLY FUNNY!
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the only way to save this film would have been to cut it down to 30 min. and end it with the mall scene from the blues brothers killing tim and eric
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I thought the movie was really funny. And no i wasnt baked. Personally i find there humor weird and stupid which is the point. The looping though they didnt do it a lot in the mmovie. The crappy green screen in the show adds to the comedy also for me personally at least. Im a pretty mature dude and i think personally you guys were a bit rough on this movie.
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i get that you don't get it. i personally like that tim and eric get reactions (strong reactions usually) of hate a sometimes love. i feel as if you guys were a little harsh, i mean, you guys have had at least prior knowledge to their approach to what many consider comedy.
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