Starring James LaGros, Enrico Colantoni, Michael Shulman, Lacey Chabert, and Brooke Nevin
Written by Tom Nance
Directed by Craig M. Saavedra
Written by Tom Nance
Directed by Craig M. Saavedra
This is one of those movies where the characters are so ridiculously cliché that you can tell who people are from the first second you see them. That guy's reading a book in a suit on the grass at a college while everyone around him is playing frisbee...I bet he's an uppity nerd! That guy's got shaggy hair and has a cat on a leash. A cat, not a dog...hah! I bet he's kooky!
Sherman Black (Michael Shulman) is the nerdy one...he actually shakes hands with people instead of doing that "pound it" fist thingy! How dorky is he? I could keep discussing the blatant characterization of the main character (the movie certainly pounds it over your head multiple times), but let's move on with the plot. Anyway, the nerd ends up meeting up with the kooky guy Palmer (James LeGros) after Sherman treks across the country to meet up with his girlfriend, only to discover that his gal has left him for an edgier guy. After a "funny" stay in the backwoods, Sherman finds himself. Shocker.
This movie quite possibly has the two most contrived characters I've seen on film this year. Absolutely awful. Nothing nice to say about either of the two main guys. The rudimentary characterizations lacked any type of believability and since the movie focuses solely on the two of them, the movie fails. The only positive is Brooke Nevin who plays the girl that brings Sherman out of his shell. I've never seen her in anything, but she's been in a lot of tv stuff apparently. For some reason, even though she was playing the "funky, artsy gal in a stodgy small town" that you've seen in a ton of other movies, Nevin was the only person that breathed life into this awful pic. Other than that, there's not a thing to recommend. How this movie failed to go direct-to-dvd is beyond me.
Sherman Black (Michael Shulman) is the nerdy one...he actually shakes hands with people instead of doing that "pound it" fist thingy! How dorky is he? I could keep discussing the blatant characterization of the main character (the movie certainly pounds it over your head multiple times), but let's move on with the plot. Anyway, the nerd ends up meeting up with the kooky guy Palmer (James LeGros) after Sherman treks across the country to meet up with his girlfriend, only to discover that his gal has left him for an edgier guy. After a "funny" stay in the backwoods, Sherman finds himself. Shocker.
This movie quite possibly has the two most contrived characters I've seen on film this year. Absolutely awful. Nothing nice to say about either of the two main guys. The rudimentary characterizations lacked any type of believability and since the movie focuses solely on the two of them, the movie fails. The only positive is Brooke Nevin who plays the girl that brings Sherman out of his shell. I've never seen her in anything, but she's been in a lot of tv stuff apparently. For some reason, even though she was playing the "funky, artsy gal in a stodgy small town" that you've seen in a ton of other movies, Nevin was the only person that breathed life into this awful pic. Other than that, there's not a thing to recommend. How this movie failed to go direct-to-dvd is beyond me.
The RyMickey Rating: D-
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