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Massawyrm Takes A Spin With HOT ROD!!

FIRST...HOT ROD SUCKS BALLS by Garbageday2007	Aug 1st, 2007 11:58:41 AM
THE BALLS OF A YAK
Gymkata! by Donnie_Drunko	Aug 1st, 2007 11:59:54 AM
Count me in!!!!
Looks great by SkeletonParty	Aug 1st, 2007 12:01:18 PM
Can't wait.
trailer is 3 minutes and no laughs by Rupee88	Aug 1st, 2007 12:10:34 PM
I don't see how the film could be good.
Good review by MetiphisLabs	Aug 1st, 2007 12:19:17 PM
I sent in one for this flick about 2 weeks ago. I wonder why they didn't put it up :(
so is Gymakata actually mentioned or watched? by sHapesHiftinLizard	Aug 1st, 2007 12:42:59 PM
im interested in whatever the wtf moments are too.
wanna see this by Automation Overlord	Aug 1st, 2007 12:44:53 PM
the trailer had me laughing for days, and this looks really funny, i'll be seeing it this weekend
It was meant for Will Ferrell by zombieclown	Aug 1st, 2007 12:56:28 PM
I read in Entertainment Weekly that the script has been lying around for years and it was meant to be a script for Ferrell. Then the Lonely Island guys got a hold of it.
When is someone gonna write a movie for Pearl? by Garbageman33	Aug 1st, 2007 01:02:33 PM
She's funnier than Bill Hader, Andy Samberg and Will Ferrell combined.
The Guy Behind Me in the cinema by palimpsest	Aug 1st, 2007 01:24:23 PM
actually choked laughing on his popcorn during the trailer for this when I saw TRANSFORMERS. Weird. I spent the three minutes wondering if that was Jon Heder in the movie or not. Looks like a fictional JACKASS, and thus, about five years too late. Obviously, it'll take millions. Mind you, the Guy Behind Me cheered throughout TRANSFORMERS, so he might well have been on some trip out from the differently-abled school...
Uhhhhhhhhhhh......Something New? by lost.rules	Aug 1st, 2007 01:29:08 PM
Haven't we seen this movie before? Like a thousand times before! Rent some movies ASS!
What I've seen doesn't look funny. BUT . . . by Nice Marmot	Aug 1st, 2007 01:31:51 PM
. . . I said the same thing about Supertrooers and I LOVE that movie. I'm intrigued enough to see Hot Rod at the Dollar Theater.
STRYPER. Not Strypper. by theBigE	Aug 1st, 2007 01:33:55 PM
An 80's Christian rock band named Stripper? That's a new one.
I'm no hater but... by kikuchiyoboy	Aug 1st, 2007 01:35:59 PM
I'm sooo sick of the 80's. I was done with it ever since Alex Owens danced in a Geisha outfit under a strobelight. And did any kids from the 80's REALLY listen to have the crap that's rehashed in films. I recall people hating half the stuff out there like Loverboy and Death Leopard. All I recall is Sex Pistols, The Cure, Suicidal Tendacies, Bruce Springstein, U2, Styx, Public Enemy, Devo, and The Cars oh and Sheena E. And I remember people rocking out to the Footloose Soundtrack and the one song I could do without till the day I die "You Lost That Loving Feeling". That's what I remember from the eighties. That and gummy wrist bracelets. This movie sounds okay. But don't shit on the House that Gervais and Apatow built. All hail Seth Rogan.
It's depressing that a dufus like Andy Samberg by Thick McRunFast	Aug 1st, 2007 01:36:38 PM
...gets to hang out with a hottie as Isla Fisher. God, she's hot. Hot, hot, hot.
"Stupid" is the new "Ironic." by Merkin Muffley	Aug 1st, 2007 01:37:41 PM
And that's a good thing.
I liked this movie better when it was called by Dwide Shrewd	Aug 1st, 2007 01:45:17 PM
Napoleon Dynamite.
Vote of Support by YakMalla	Aug 1st, 2007 01:48:02 PM
I only wanted to voice my approval for any mention of Gymkata, the Holy Grail of films.
I envision this being played by skimn	Aug 1st, 2007 02:05:24 PM
every other weekend on Comedy Central in two years. Stuck between Van Wilder and Sorority Boys. Do hope the Lonely Island guys pick up the baton from Broken Lizard. They had me at SuperTroopers, really lost me at Club Dread, and sorta lost me at Beerfest. Ian McShane kicking the ass of Samberg looks like gold though.
FERRELL. Not Farrell. by Massawyrm 1	Aug 1st, 2007 02:10:17 PM
Holy flaming goat anus! Fucking spellcheck. Changes it to Farrell everytime. My sincerest apologies to Mr. Ferrell.
In my original review... by Bungion Boy	Aug 1st, 2007 02:22:10 PM
I think I was too hard on this. I saw it the day after I first saw Superbad and that film was too fresh in my head as one of the funniest comedies of the year, in years. So I took away a few too many points from Hot Rod for not being as good as Superbad. Massawyrm is right. It's not the funniest movie of the year, but it's above average and has a true sweetness to it. They screened this about 50 times this summer in New York and I kept passing it up after seeing it once. But now that all the time has passed, I gotta say that I kind of want to pay to see it again this weekend.
that whole thing reminds me of... by AllieJamison	Aug 1st, 2007 02:23:29 PM
"Harold Buttleman, Daredevil Stuntman". That little project by GOD INC inventor (francisstokes.com) francis stokes: http://tinyurl.com/2zu2nr
Looks funny by Acappellaman	Aug 1st, 2007 02:25:42 PM
My wife and I laugh at the trailer every time we see it. I'm normally not that huge of a fan of movies like this, btu the chemistry seems to be pretty good. We'll probably add it to our Blockbuster queue.
"What the fuck" moments aren't new esp for SNL alum by Lando Griffin	Aug 1st, 2007 02:31:46 PM
early Sandler flicks had lots of WTF humor, even his newer watered down crap still has an occasional WTF joke thrown in
Let's enjoy while he's still original and fresh by deucefilms	Aug 1st, 2007 02:35:36 PM
Because, once mainstream America starts to take notice, this guy is going to be the next Adam Sandler. Sandler's movie career started with some great off-the-wall comedies like Billy Madison and Happy Gilmore. Then came the success of The Wedding Singer and it was all downhill after that (on a comedy scale). I keep wishing we'd get the old Sandler back, but instead he keeps crapping out forgettable movies like Mr. Deeds, Click, and Now I Pronounce You Chuck and Larry. So, before Sandberg gets noticed and begins making $150 million-grossing Hollywood watered-down crap, let's enjoy his work while it's still remotely unique and edgy.
Andy Samberg fucking sucks. by oceanic86	Aug 1st, 2007 02:49:08 PM
I don't care how "nice" he is, or how much of a "regular guy" he is, he's not fucking funny. His entire point on SNL is to make funny faces at the camera. He's Jimmy Fallon-awful.
If this is "something new", they've done a hell of a... by minderbinder	Aug 1st, 2007 03:06:15 PM
...job disguising that in the trailer. It makes this look like the most derivative, unoriginal thing ever.
Dick in a Box by Garbageman33	Aug 1st, 2007 03:29:45 PM
Remind me what Jimmy Fallon ever did that was that good? Hell, it's been downloaded an average of 1.4 times for every man, woman and child in the world. Go ahead and tell me you thought it "fucking sucked". Come on. I dare you.
Lando Griffin by Massawyrm 1	Aug 1st, 2007 03:49:02 PM
Dude, this is DIFFERENT. It's not like those moments you're thinking of. There's one seen in particular, the COOL BEANS sequence, that just comes out of nowhere - and it makes ZERO sense. But it made me laugh.
bill hader by Magic Rat	Aug 1st, 2007 04:03:18 PM
spot on synopsis of him. The guy is the funniest thing SNL has going for it (Wiig being a close second). He'll be huge in two years. I can see a Sandler-like movie career for him.
ummm, apatow and ricky gervais.... by lovethatjoker	Aug 1st, 2007 04:09:34 PM
...are the only two people who ARE doing original comedy these days. Hot Rod looks like a lame rip-off of Napolean Dynamite. Wow, 80s pop culture references and slapstick humor- GENIUS!! Sorry, but your review is shit.
Speaking of Kristen Wiig by Garbageman33	Aug 1st, 2007 04:36:37 PM
I said hi to her at a Bat for Lashes show last week in New York. You're more than welcome to be jealous of me.
Looks cool. Can't wait to see it. Thanks for review. by Proman1984	Aug 1st, 2007 04:39:42 PM
Masa.
"That'll move the chains!" by Neil McCauleys Crew	Aug 1st, 2007 04:40:08 PM
This is the only SNL skit I can really say reminds me of Samberg. It was the one with Jeremy Piven and Samberg played some Make a Wish Foundation kid.
lovethatjoker is right by mr_package	Aug 1st, 2007 04:42:22 PM
Apatow makes character-driven comedy, the farthest thing from shotgun-style comedy (UHF, Zucker/Abrams, Scary Movie).
"That'll move the chains" by Magic Rat	Aug 1st, 2007 05:11:07 PM
Yeah, Samberg played the kid with ADD - automatic death disease. (heh)
Cool Beans? by The Dum Guy	Aug 1st, 2007 05:33:29 PM
I know people who say that, and I can't understand what in the hell it means. I'm going to research that and the phrase "Gotta Eat", in order to understand my fellow human beings.
lovethatjoker by Massawyrm 1	Aug 1st, 2007 06:23:09 PM
Apatow has taken the frat sex comedy and added an improv element - and Gervais has serialized what Christopher Guest has been doing for decades. Hardly cutting edge. But it is what all the hipsters are watching right now. So if you're gonna side with them, I guess Someone's bought into the hype. Oh, and yes. It DOES look like shit. I kind of said that in the review. But one of us has actually seen it.
Guest and Gervais.... by lovethatjoker	Aug 1st, 2007 06:38:41 PM
...are WORLDS apart. And you are perhaps the only person on planet Earth to deny the objective quality of the UK Office and Extras. And "WTF" elements to comedy are NOTHING new either: remember the trident in Anchorman? the cheetah in Harold and Kumar? the make-out session in talladega nights? It's incredibly easy (and popular) to throw in randomness and stupidity into a comedy these days. It's not as easy to use character sympathy and empathy as the driving force of the laughs.
Garbageman - by oceanic86	Aug 1st, 2007 06:41:18 PM
I haven't seen Dick In A Box. I've seen a handful of newer SNL episodes, and they've all been garbage. SNL has almost always been uneven, but it's unwatchable to me now. It's painfully unfunny, and Andy Samberg mugging for the camera making goofy faces doesn't do shit for me.
Main reason for seeing this... by Veni Vidi Vici	Aug 1st, 2007 06:44:13 PM
Isla Fisher
"But it is what all the hipsters are watching right now by oceanic86	Aug 1st, 2007 06:49:05 PM
Oh, give me a fucking break. You sound like an angsty 18 year-old with that dismissive bullshit. "I don't like it, so therefor anyone who does just wants to be cool and is a sucker!" Wah wah wah. There's nothing wrong with liking "dumb" comedy, just have the balls to admit it, rather than trying to paint anyone who desires anything more than sight gags and "randomness" as some kind of hipster douchebag.
Oh, and Bill Hader is pretty cool by oceanic86	Aug 1st, 2007 07:12:40 PM
It's a shame he's on SNL when the writing is at a near all-time low. I agree with whoever said he reminds them of Akroyd. I saw him on Conan a while back, and I remember thinking he was really funny.
lovethatjoker by BadMrWonka	Aug 1st, 2007 07:36:05 PM
not saying you're right or wrong (probably wrong)...but don't you think you might want to wait til you've SEEN the movie, before you argue this specific point with someone who has?
AC/DC song? by Veni Vidi Vici	Aug 1st, 2007 07:53:16 PM
for those of you who have seen the trailer on tv and listen to AC/DC, what is the name of the song playing durning the trailers? it's been bugging the hell out of me, and i swear that song ends up on a lot of comdey movie trailers.
BadMrWonka by lovethatjoker	Aug 1st, 2007 08:00:59 PM
The majority of my two posts were in defense of the works of Ricky Gervais and Judd Apatow. I make no claim about Hot Rod other than the fact that it looks like a shitty Napolean Dynamite rip-off (which it does). If the movie is good then hooray, but I found fault in the fact that Apatow's and Gervais' work were regarded as "unoriginal" whereas everything Massywyrm wrote about Hot Rod makes it seem inane and not nearly as well-crafted anything done by the two talented individuals Massywyrm ignorantly dissed.
oceanic86 by Massawyrm 1	Aug 1st, 2007 08:05:17 PM
Sorry man. I was trollbaiting - but caught me a regular instead. Just enjoying watching this guy lose his shit. While many a hipster has annointed these two - the are an awful lot of people that find them funny.
Kristen Wiig was the best part of Knocked Up. by Barry Egan	Aug 1st, 2007 08:08:31 PM
Her scene early in the film with Alan Tudyck was the best part of the movie. "We want you to be healthy by eating less."
Garbageman33 by Lando Griffin	Aug 1st, 2007 08:27:35 PM
I am jealous. But don't tell Isla that I love Kristen too.
Massawyrm by Lando Griffin	Aug 1st, 2007 08:29:16 PM
I am always up for a good WTF moment in a film. As teens my buddy and I also referred to them as Smoker moments - they would be enhanced my some maryjane
lovethatjoker by BadMrWonka	Aug 1st, 2007 08:40:09 PM
I love Judd Apatow's films, for the most part...but "throw it at the wall and see what sticks improv school", while not sounding particularly complimentary, is right on the money. ditto for Ricky Gervais, The Office and Extras are both hilarious to me, but "isn't uncomfortable real life funny", well, perfectly describes it. I admit, it might have come off as a little dismissive, but it's not off the mark. and I don't think Massa was trying to diss these guys as much as he was trying to say, "in case you're thinking this is more of the same, which it might seem from the previews, it's not. it's something completely different." and that's good, because although I like the lonely island guys, and Samberg is great, I really didn't expect much from this, after seeing the preview. so let's just wait to see the film when it comes out, and then we'll all meet up in whatever Batman stroke-fest talkback closely follows it, and discuss our findings.
Finally watched Dick In A Box... by oceanic86	Aug 1st, 2007 08:46:18 PM
Despite the fact that I don't find Andy Samberg funny, it did make me laugh. It reminded me a little bit of the Three Times One Minus One sketch from Mr. Show.
I'm hip, I'm with "it".... tucka, tucka, tucka, tucka by The Dum Guy	Aug 1st, 2007 08:50:32 PM
I just went and saw the beggining of Uwe Bolls Postal movie, and thought it was kinda funny... Humor is a very subjective thing.
Random shit? by Jonesey1111	Aug 1st, 2007 08:58:41 PM
Oh, like every episode of Family Guy
'random' jokes, fake mustaches, making fun of the 80s by LarryTheCableGuy	Aug 1st, 2007 09:40:05 PM
seem like cheap laughs to me these days. i havent seen this movie yet and like these guys on snl, but i dunno if this movie deserves a review at all.
I like some of Samberg's SNL by RandySavage	Aug 1st, 2007 09:44:37 PM
I like some of Samberg's SNL digital shorts (Lettuce, Narnia, Dickbox), but I just watched 8 scenes from this film at commingsoon.net and each one was laughless and downright embarrassing.
It's my dick in a box. by lost.rules	Aug 1st, 2007 10:00:19 PM
First, You cut a hole in the box.
I feel We Are off Topic. by Donnie_Drunko	Aug 1st, 2007 10:24:20 PM
Is this not all about Gymkata. I mean what the fuck is Hot Rodney?
Just read this to see how Hader did... by DanielKurland	Aug 2nd, 2007 12:13:28 AM
Love him so much. He's doing consistently funny work, and just seems like an all around nice guy. Apparently he was so absent from SNL last year due to the various movies he was in. Let's hope he's used plentifully this year.
Got Three Toes, but I'll Down Three Thousand Bud Lights by George Newman	Aug 2nd, 2007 01:12:03 AM
SLOTHS! SLOTHS! SLOTHS!
I dunno know which came first by Fried_Puppy	Aug 2nd, 2007 03:40:03 AM
but The Devil Dared Me To looks like exactly the same film, only actually funny... http://tinyurl.com/2tgpn7
I hate "random" humour by Spandau Belly	Aug 2nd, 2007 08:03:14 AM
Give me jokes that make sense and characters that actually are consistent characters with motivation. I hate this Family Guy, Will Ferrell crap where a bunch of people say and do and say totally unpredictable things and none of the other characters react with anything but their own random wacky behaviour. Maybe it's funny in real life when somebody just says the wierdest/grossest thing possible, but in movies it feels cheap and becomes boring damn fast. If I wanted absurdism I'd call Jorodowsky.
Xiphos by Veni Vidi Vici	Aug 2nd, 2007 12:17:52 PM
thank you very much, i appreciate your help. you have made my day. thanks again.
Support random unpredictable humor! by BillyPilgrim	Aug 2nd, 2007 02:00:37 PM
Manatees gotta eat!
May I Say Something? by Tomkennyrules	Aug 2nd, 2007 02:38:37 PM
I'm sick as fuck of these reviews where something comes out, and suddenly everything else in that same genre is stupid, outdated and irrelevant. Now, I think this movie looks awful. But that's my opinion. What I don't get is the slamming of Gervais and Apatow. Let's say Hot Rod is the funniest comedy ever made... why does that suddenly make Gervais and Apatow irrelevant? Time and time again, reviewers want to show off how hip they think they are. Big deal - you saw "Hot Rod" a week before everyone else. Awesome. But let's leave others who are quite successfully doing comedy alone. Mkay?
Ha by McClane_Corleone	Aug 2nd, 2007 06:37:56 PM
When you trash Ricky Gervais, Judd Apatow, and Will Ferrell in the beginning of a review about a comedy, your opinion becomes meaningless. Like that guy who slept through Halloween.
And for Massawyrms next trick by McClane_Corleone	Aug 2nd, 2007 06:43:33 PM
he will suggest that Andy Samberg writes funnier and more biting satire than Trey Parker and Matt Stone.
this review by helga56	Aug 8th, 2007 05:13:08 PM
right on. totally random but inspired humor.
so different from family guy by helga56	Aug 8th, 2007 05:16:19 PM
that show actually tries too hard to say, this is random humor. Let's throw in a directly introduced comparison between the Kool-aid man and Ex-Justice Sandra Day O'conner (having SEX)!! Why is that funny? Oh yeah, it's not.

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