The Freezepop T-Shirt in the back of my wardrobe is proof that we’ve all done stupid things to impress girls, but Nick Twisp takes it a bit further than most in Dimension Film’s new adap of C.D.Payne’s enormous teen saga, and just about gets away with it too.
After spending New Years Day cleaning what, for argument’s sake, we’ll assume was mud mixed with chewing gum off the office floor, we finally had time to carry on checking out all the new movies crawling out of the toilet to infect your eyeballs like refugees from an early Cronenberg movie in the new year. Yep, it’s part two of our craptabulous round up of the biggest, worstest flicks of 2010!
On paper Black Dynamite has all the ingredients to be an absolute crap fest; with it’s over-ripe source material and the terminally unfunny spoof-ensemble, it should come out making Date Movie look like Shakespeare, so it’s a very refreshing surprise to find an old school spoof with plenty of actually amusing gags lurking in a script that’s blessed with a modicum of wit.
Previously seen fighting for screentime in tripe like Night at the Museum 2, Jay Baruchel brings his A-game to this bizarre comedy that flirts with surrealism and political engagement, but doesn’t lose its sense of humour.
Shane Meadows makes a welcome return to his no-cash-no-worries roots with his latest, upping the dry wit he’s displayed in the past to full on belly laugh comedy, following Paddy Considine’s loudmouthed roadie Le Donk, and accidentally focussing on Dean Palinczuk’s shy, huge, and possibly genuinely talented rapper Scor-Zay-Zee.