Trailer Park Boys: The Movie

I've never seen the highly improvised Canadian series, but I probably will now after seeing the movie, which seems to be pretty much the same thing. It's very crass, pretty strange and damned hilarious throughout. Part of the appeal is the Canadian accents, which are just different enough from what I usually hear to make listening to most characters a little more enjoyable, and combining it with the strange life views of the residents of Sunnyvale Trailer Park. It's just foreign enough from real experience to make the juxtaposition somehow funnier. Like the series I guess, it's somewhat of a mockumentary, with periodic interview segments with the characters, although the rest of the movie isn't really filmed like the crew is part of the scene, which shows like The Office always try to make seem legitimate. It's not really a distraction, though.

What makes the movie great is the characters. They're all unique and bizarrely comical in their own way. Ricky manages to be a likable protagonist despite being kind of a dick the entire time. Julian is a lot of fun too, kind of smarter than anyone else but still dumb enough to remain part of their backwards lifestyle. Bubbles is the most obviously weird, although he manages to avoid being a gimmick pretty well. Leahy and Randy are a solid villain and henchman combo, and a particular scene showing off Leahy's immense ability to drink made me laugh more than anything else in the movie. The plot's not really original or anything, but it's a perfect background for the absurdity that happens for an hour and a half as the good guys try to get one last big score before going back to growing dope and getting their lives back together without getting evicted from the park or sent back to jail. Totally worth checking out for fans of comedy.