Very Cool!!!

Overrated and overhyped

Memorable, crazy movie

Did you people see the same film I saw?

Maybe I can count myself lucky, because I decided to watch this movie because of it's original title: "Little Fish, Strange Pond". I quite often feel like a little fish in a strange pond - a very strange pond. While watching this movie I realized, there probably are quite some people, to whom that pond seem even more strange, which made me laugh - at first. Soon enough one get a feeling. You couldn't predict anything, but you feel this is going from bad to worse and I suddenly was not sure whether I laughed because it was funny or my laughter was plainly hysterical. I saw this movie last week and I was ever since having some thoughts I didn't ever before. I must admit others who have seen this movie might not have been stirred up like me and again others might not have liked being stirred up. I think that's the reason this movie gets a lot of low ratings and yet some excellent ones.

i wish i could leave a vote of -1. this movie reminds me of the few times that i've picked up a paperback thriller based on how well the first paragraph reads only to be so disappointed by the rest of the first chapter that i delight in tossing it into the fireplace, to burn it to black carbon.i was trying to figure Mr. jack out. he is an intolerable character that has nothing noteworthy to say and how he says everything is annoying. how he speaks grates on your nerves. his character is annoying and so boring you begin to go to sleep. then these two chums (jack and Sam) end up in a porno film shop. they wait to be attended to by Bucky, who is arguing with a boy that appears to be 12 years of age trying to rent some porno DVD, but he gives in and lets him have it. it takes SUCH a long time for Bucky to let the lad leave the store.then Mr. jack and Bucky end up in the back room of the store and Mr. jack wants Bucky to give him the new magic dope, some new and interesting psychedelic, i guess, since it is never clear what the dope does to you, not even after Bucky FINALLY gives it to Mr. jack and he ingests it. Mr. jack doesn't appear to become stoned or high, or even become slightly changed from taking the drug. he is totally unchanged in his behavior and manner of speaking. you'd pray that the drug would shut him up because he irritates you so much with his disgustingly and antagonizingly boring method of speaking as well as to the topics he addresses. isn't an illicit street drug supposed to change your behavior in some way? why would Bucky sell it as a special high, and why would anyone ask for it if it does nothing to change how you feel? this question is never addressed. never. then let me tell you about the balance of the first chapter that tells me how dreadfully confusing and stupid the rest of the "book" will be. this blabber-mouthed thug makes a big deal of coming into the porno store waving about a big, bad revolver in his hand. he even puts the largest and heaviest type of chain you can imagine (this side of ship building) and locks the door to the rest of the world. he makes a big speech from some scrap of paper on which are a set of steps one goes through when committing a robbery. all of a sudden, he shoots a man whom has mysteriously appeared behind the counter. i mean, you never saw him all the time the kid was buying his porno, nor did you see him when these two clowns walked in (the main protagonists), nor did Bucky say anything to him to indicate to we, the audience, that he is even inside of the store, acting as an employee, or as a customer, nor does he play any role while Bucky takes Mr. jack to the back of the store to sell him some super special sort of dope, since he is never introduced in the film whatsoever until the thief shoots him dead. yes, plugs him a couple of times in the chest with his bad, bad gun. while the thief, who locked the door so tightly with his heavy padlock and chain jibber jabbers on and on about these steps about what one should do when he robs a store, is suddenly shot in the skull. now you ask, "who shot this creep?!?" viola! there is a plains-clothes detective who was brought forth by some other unseen and magical person who has got to be hiding out somewhere with a magic lantern, rubbing it to bring forth the police officer genie, who kills the robber. because, since he chain and padlocked the door, how did the cop get in? and then, i will add just one more thing that could convince you to never bother with this pile of scata:Mr. jack and sweet Sam leave the porno shop and end up conversing about nothing interesting as they walk a tiny block of the Los Angeles garment district. the roll-down steel doors over the store windows tell you that it must be a Sunday. but how they walk about the neighborhood is strange. they walk up the street, past no more than eight stores, then they cross the street and walk back down the street on the other side past no more than another eight stores, then they walk across the street again and walk past the very same stores that they had walked by to begin with. they walk in circles, like the demented. nothing in their useless conversation tells you why they are walking in circles, exactly next to the same old shops that they had just passed by. and, although Mr. jack is now surely to be stoned by the magic pill, he drones on and on exactly like he did from the beginning of the movie. believe me: bucky had to be selling some darned BAD STUFF, MON, since there is absolutely no change at all to mr. jack's behavior or topics.you want to pull the DVD out of your player fast, since this movie drives you to such irritating distraction that if you do not, you will pick up the player and go about bashing it all about your walls. this is the worst movie that i have seen in 45 years. don't be tempted. don't. don't buy it. don't rent it. don't agree to watch it with anyone. don't bother.

Yes, this film jumped on the ZG bandwagon and that's probably the only reason anyone honestly watched this film. It's also the only reason anyone got to see an interesting idea get completely butchered by terrible writing and equally awful directing. Perhaps it's because the budget was so low, perhaps its because the writers and director were simply talentless. The concept, without spoiling it for you (but really, don't bother) is a discussion of violence and what is evil, what is addiction, and what is human nature. Interesting, right? Yeah. Toss in some relatively talented and interesting actors and its all up to the writing and directing to bring this film together. Those two cogs fail miserably, and we're left with a film that features a superb ZG doing what he does best for about fifteen minutes. After that, you're left to fumble around the film on your own. Good luck, but don't bother. This film was a failure. A good idea, but poorly executed.

AKA Frenemy. Whoever put Zach G.'s picture on the front of this owes him and anyone who watches this movie an apology. It's clear that someone was blatantly trying to exploit Zach Galifianakis's fame to dupe people into renting this waste of time. Not only that, but there were so few comedic moments there is no way it should be called a comedy. Dark, yes, I'll give them that but it was as random as watching Family Guy but completely devoid of humor. The only reason that I gave it two stars is because the main cast and most of the acting was pretty solid. It's kind of like the "abstract art" that nobody really gets but so-called "deep thinking" critics say they love just to make you think that they know something that you don't. It was less than an hour an a half long and it still seemed to go on forever. I want my dollar and my 80 minutes back!