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- 2004
- R
- Fox Searchlight Pictures
- 1 h 44 m
- 2004
- R
- Fox Searchlight Pictures
- 1 h 44 m
Summary Surrounded by limber, wanton women on a booze-soaked island resort owned by rock star has-been Coconut Pete (Paxton), a non-stop party takes a turn for the weird when dead bodies start turning up faster than you could drink a rum punch. (Fox)
Directed By: Jay Chandrasekhar
- 2004
- R
- Fox Searchlight Pictures
- 1 h 44 m
- 2004
- R
- Fox Searchlight Pictures
- 1 h 44 m
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Summary Surrounded by limber, wanton women on a booze-soaked island resort owned by rock star has-been Coconut Pete (Paxton), a non-stop party takes a turn for the weird when dead bodies start turning up faster than you could drink a rum punch. (Fox)
Directed By: Jay Chandrasekhar
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The Broken Lizard guys don't so much send up a genre as inhabit it, and subvert it from the inside.
This genre-busting hybrid is a scattershot affair - bad jokes land with a thud that seems to echo, but the winning ones prompt hearty laughs.
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Based on 62 User Ratings
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Works better than one might think, thanks to the group's modus operandi, which combines a fundamental reverence for the target material and a sly irreverence that's key to their skewering technique.
The film's biggest flaw is its excessive running time: The jokes start wearing thin after the first hour and, by the time the credits finally roll, it's become the kind of straightforward gorefest it started out ridiculing.
Mr. Chandrasekhar's direction is casual to the point of carelessness, but he does give the movie a friendly, convivial atmosphere that contradicts and sometimes overcomes its frequently cruel humor. In short, this is another film that looks as if it was more fun to make than it is to sit through.
About as funny as malaria.
Studios can release movies even more insultingly dumb, crudely assembled and cheaply produced than this one, though such an achievement will require some effort.
Production Company
Fox Searchlight Pictures,
Broken Lizard Industries,
Cataland Films,
Coconut Pete Productions
Release Date Feb 27, 2004
Duration 1 h 44 m
Rating R
Tagline A vacation to die for.
