Puddle Cruiser
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Actor: Alison Clapp, Kayren Butler, Sally Brackett, Susan Clarke, Zach ChapmanBrand: Fox
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language); English (Dubbed)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 102 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-12-06
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
DVD Reviews of Puddle Cruiser
DVD Review: This Is A Chick Flick - And It's Not Funny
Summary: 1 Stars
This movie is a limp-wristed romantic comedy! As a huge fan of broken lizard, I was looking forward to seeing this early work with fairly low expectations; Not expecting another super troopers but probably a low budget quirkily funny humor. And yet I was still disappointed. The amazing thing is there is no indiciation that the guys who made this movie would go onto do the hilarious off-beat comedies that they would subsequently create.
One major problem is that this film stars Steve Lemme, and he is clearly the weakest link among the five club dread guys. He may be the best-looking, but he's the least funny and probably the worst actor of the troupe. And his character is fairly unlikeable, a sort of bland and uninteresting twit, the typical lead in girlish date movies (which is what this is), made all the worse by Lemme's "serious" acting. In their other movies, the broken lizard guys did well to limit Lemme's weaknesses. In this movie, they highlight them.
Another problem is that the Freaky Reaky character, played by Eric Stolhnanske, is kind of lame and gets actively annoying at times. This is probably the worst character the Broken Lizard guys have come up with yet. It's this stock hippie stoner character who's supposed to be over the top, but actually just seriously grates.
A third problem is that they spend too much of this movie not telling jokes, but making an annoying, tepid, typical and uninspired romantic comedy. Chandrasekhar, Heffernan, and Soter are pretty good in their roles, but their screen time, especially that of the latter two, is way too small.
There are some funny bits, but there's nothing here that is as ridiculously funny as their other movies. One of the great things about Broken Lizard is that they've developed a fresh, distinctive, and original brand of comedy. That is not in evidence here. These jokes are stale and conventional. The bonus featurette, rodeo clowns, showing their tour of colleges to promote this movie is often more entertaining, but is not enough to recommend this purchase. Meanwhile the commentaries are frustrating, because these guys still seem to be suffering under the illusions that this is a good movie and that some of their crappy jokes are funny. It would be more interesting if they talked about things they learned while making this and how they applied those lessons to making their subsequent movies comedic successes.
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