Sep 15 2008
The Onion Movie
I think I might keep this review short and sweet, so you can get off your ass and go and get this movie tonight. Th movie I speak of is The Onion Movie. And if you have never read the news paper, The Onion, you have been doing yourself a great misservice. Go and read some when you are done with this awesome review.
The newspaper is a satire on current news and trends. Kinda like the Daily Show, but in printed form and MUCH MORE satirical instead of flat out humor. Plus the newspapers are free. Why aren’t you reading them?
Anyways, the movie is very reminiscent of the 1970’s “Kentucky Fried Movie” and the 1980’s “Amazon Women on the Moon.” The films are skits and fake commercials and news reports strung together by a narrative slung in through out. Some movies that try this fail miserably. However, in the vein of “KF Movie,” this movie bases it’s satire on the current pop culture and media trends. So while people might not be able to identify as well with “KF Movie” they will surely recognize the inanity of the ideals this movie is portraying.
Touching on topics like pop icons being too sexual, politics being asinine, terrorists portrayals, and racial stereotypes abound. From reading this list, one would think this would be classified in the “Epic Movie” genre and therefore: shit on, burnt, ate by a Hollywood Studio Exec, shit out once again, and placed inside of an evil warlock’s nut sack. But this isn’t the case. And the movie let’s us know along the way that they are self aware. And this only ads to the beauty this film portrays. There is a moment when the film pauses and evaluated itself with “film experts” and a modern film watcher.
The movie at times is low brow and crude, but at other times intelligent and thought provoking how we run our media. Either way, it’s a hell of a ride and I will be buying this one for sure.
Grade: B-
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And finally your moment of Zen….
The attempts at trying to find anything worth while watching the pilot to the new TV show…FRINGE
