Run Ronnie Run!

Run Ronnie Run!
by Troy Miller

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DVD Review: Hmm...i dunno...
Summary: 2 Stars

I wasnt exactly sure how how i'd describe this film until i told my brother about it. He and i both being huge Mr. Show fans. When i told him just about everything about the film he said "So....it's one of those films that has some funny stuff in it but it'd otherwise kind of hard to watch?"

Yeah that about sums it up.

About the biggest problem with the film is the Ronnie Dobbs character himself. In the Mr. Show episodes he was a low class, angry, violent, idiotic, self-centered a-hole. However, that really is what makes him funny. The film sort of tones that side of him down and tries to create a sort of sweet side to him, to make him more appealing i suppose. Ronnie has some sort of crush on some trailer park chick named tammy (no, its really not as funny as it sounds). You might remember tammy from a few scenes in Mr. Show. One scene where she's ratting him out to the cops as he shouts "Lying B$%ch!" over and over. Another where he meets up with her after being and jail, and noticing that she's pregnent remarks "Ok who you been F#&$ing? It travis?"

While thats not nice stuff to say, for some reason its halarious to see that complete lack of empathy. Which is, once again, the ronnie dobbs charm. No such luck in this movie though. He's quite tame in his remarks and actions, he basically spends most of the film trying to win tammy. Wasnt that the plot to Joe dirt? And didnt joe dirt show that you cant really have a low class, idiotic, self centered a-hole who's also lovable? One or the other here fellas.

I only saw one small scene in the movie where i actually recognized the Mr. Show character. After becoming rich and famous, but still not attaining tammy, he thinks of an idea to make her jealous by introducing her to the beer model he's been dating. The plan backfires and ronnie just upsets both women. After tammy leaves, upset, ronnie remarks to the beer model "way to go b&^ch, you blew it". She slaps him and leaves as well. Thats about all you can expect in the ways of a Mr. Show ronnie.

There are lots of surprisingly funny scenes, one involving R. Lee Ermy and a fat kid and others with the pop group "three times one minus one", but i'd say about 50% of the film is just dead air. There's scenes that sort of try to be funny, but just come off as dumb or banal, or even just weird. such as ronnie meets a korean kid in a wheelchair who has some sort of terminal foot disorder and needs some kind of special shoes. For some reason...david's voice is dubbed over the kids. But even more strage is that Ronnie just starts wistfully dreaming out loud about the things he'd do to keep the kid from getting his special shoes. It comes off as odd seeing how much work they put into making ronnie some kind of lovable guy.

The basic plot is bizarre. You can tell an entire team of writers were working on it and pieced their work together in some sort of shoddy, hacked together final draft. All in all the story could of been told in about a half hour. You can basically tell how it's going to end about 10 minutes into the film.

All in all, my brother said it best. Theres funny stuff yeah....but you'll find yourself wandering into other rooms to do things while watching this film; or wearing out your fast forward button.

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