"Do the thing that you want to do, but make sure you actually like it."
I wanted to see a David Lowery movie tonight. I liked it. I nearly loved it, but then it sailed straight past what I thought was the perfect ending and kept on going for a couple more scenes until it landed on an adequate ending.
"Could it be that one monster has created another?"
The longer this goes on, the sillier it gets, but it's the kind of silliness that, if embraced, makes for a tremendously fun night out at the movies. With its emphasis on bodily harm inflicted in grisly and grimly amusing detail, it's easy to peg this as a Halloween sequel from the makers of Pineapple Express.
This "film" has a running time of about 79 minutes. Here's how that breaks down:
5.5% - Kirk Cameron's smug, hot chocolate-obsessed introduction
3% - A seemingly unmotivated cutaway to what looks like a much more interesting movie but is, in fact, not (Bonus: We get to see this footage again in its entirety when it's placed in the proper context)
2.5% - Cheaply animated opening credits set to a ska cover of "Silent Night"
7.5% - Kirk's "brother-in-law" --…
