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Tim And Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie

TIM AND ERIC’S BILLION DOLLAR MOVIE (Mongrel, 2012) D and w/ Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim. Rating: NN Blu-ray package: NNN Rating: NN


Somewhere in their admittedly lacklustre commentary, writer-director-stars Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim point out the moment when we, the audience, are supposed to get on side with Tim and Eric the characters.Then they add that they don’t see how it’s possible, given what the characters are doing at the moment. Later on, one of them mentions that they’re not good actors.

Those two flaws pretty much kill Tim And Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie as a conventional idiots-on-the-loose low comedy, a form that goes back at least as far as Laurel and Hardy and hasn’t changed since. All it requires are likeable idiots, funny gags and a nominal plot.

They’ve got the plot: after the failure of their billion-dollar movie, Tim and Eric flee Hollywood and get work revitalizing a moribund mall.

This leads to lots of dialogue scenes where Will Ferrell, Zach Galifianakis, John C Reilly and others get to be funnier than the stars, who have two expressions: insincere smiling and blank indifference.

Despite these failings, the movie has a few amusingly odd moments.

EXTRAS Commentary, cast and crew interviews, extended and deleted scenes, more. English audio and subtitles.

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