Director: Lloyd Kauffman
Year: 2020
Country: USA
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Exploitation; Horror/Comedy
Plot:
After being scorned by society, a and scientist enacts a plan of revenge by kidnapping the remnants of his old pharmaceutical company and making them believe they're being thrown a lavish party, but when his daughter develops feelings of lust towards his rivals ' son he must decide whether he wants to carry out his scheme.
Review:
This was a rather funny and enjoyable effort. Most of this one's intrigue is tied into the skewered social commentary on the current state of the world. Employing the constant notion of millennials being offended and ready to voice their outrage at everything even at the expense of common sense for what they're arguing about, there's much to like here with the two students wandering through everything trying to make a point for everyone's inclusion and acceptance. That everything they do is made to be either mocked, laughed at or ridiculed for their misguided and wrongheaded manner allows for a great reveal about the intent behind their motives in a fantastic gag.
On top of that, the film's copious amounts of gratuitous, offensive nature throughout serve the film tremendously. The treatment of the various handicapped characters should be no surprise in one of their films, while opening with the onslaught of fecal matter, poop jokes and purely unrestrained manners of integrating these aspects throughout the film into any and every opportunity it can serves this well. That openness and ease with which it dwells on such grotesque elements are shown in great form with the over-the-top finale, making use of gross body-horror imagery including meltdowns, contortions and leakage of every conceivable bodily fluid from any open orifice provides this with a fantastic quality as well as the top-notch effects work.
Lastly, the film as a whole just scores plenty of legitimate laughs as it's genuinely hilarious. Treating the blind daughter for sympathy on top of cracking jokes when it can offer up plenty of laughs alongside the heartwarming moments which enables the comedic punchlines to hit that much more. The whole manner of poking fun at drug companies and the pharmaceutical industry for their roles in the state of the world scores massively while the odd musical number interjected into the running time for no reason is another big source of chuckles. Even the entire fourth-wall-breaking interstitial scenes are gut-busting for how they play with history as the loose interpretation of the storyline at the heart of the film is turned into a knowing joke that's quite funny, making this one of the studio's best efforts.
Overview: ****.5/5
It's a Troma movie, you should know what you're getting going into a film like this and it scores massively high in these categories as if everyone was firing at the top of their game. See it immediately if you're even a slight fan of their work or just curious about what's in store here, while the easily-offended or just outright haters of their films will be well advised to steer clear of this one.
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