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2002 |
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Rated: PG-13 for
violence, adult language, and sexually suggestive content. |
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Genre: Comedy |
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Directed By: David Semel |
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| Review
by: Felix Vasquez Jr. |
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Review Date: 11/02/03 |
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| If you like this,
try: Big Trouble, Raising Arizona, Sweet Home Alabama |
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LONE STAR STATE OF MIND |

Earl: Baby, you ever get the
feeling you're being watched?
Baby: You mean by, like, horny guys?
Earl
Crest (Joshua Jackson: Dawson's Creek, The Skulls) is a workaday mechanic
who is supporting his beautiful fiance and stepsister Baby (Jaime King: Pearl
Harbor, Slackers) who has aspirations to become an actress. Mayhem ensues,
when her retard friend Junior (D.J. Qualls: The New Guy, The Core) gets
into trouble with gangsters, they must attempt to retrieve the money and return
it before they're killed.
While
watching, this tended to remind me of "Raising Arizona", with only one
exception: Raising Arizona is good, and this is bad, really bad. There's a movie
that you can watch that is so bad that it makes you feel like tearing your
eyebrows off one by one just to numb the pain. The cliches are so thick in this
film that it inevitably tears down the film with no chance of recovery. There's
practically every known cliche and stereotype in this film applying to Texan
people. There's the lead character played by Joshua Jackson who is so unlikable
and so paper thin it's hard to empathize with anything he does in this.
Joshua Jackson doesn't sound like a Texan
but sounds like he's trying his hardest to create a Southern accent and it isn't
a pleasant one. As always the southern town in which the film sets down on is
teeming with you basic array of uneducated Southern yokels who bowl at every
chance and guzzle beer like it's water. There's the gravel teethed lowlife who
also acts as the comedic villain, the retarded inbred invalid (played by D.J.
Qualls) who pretty much gets himself in a mess and has other people clean it up
for him, the gangster boss tycoon who dresses like a cowboy and pretends to be
dangerous when in fact he's just dull,
and, there's the Mexican gangsters who
speak with a thick accent, spurt Spanish on every other word in a sentence and
(this is the kicker) have a cell phone with a ring tone that plays "La Bamba".
Wow! How original, and how utterly
offensive. This is only the tip of the annoying iceberg that continues
throughout the film, and it becomes just terrible as the movie continues. Writer
Trevor Munson bombards his script with nothing but predictable and often
desperate attempts at comedy with a running gag involving a gun, and the
homosexual character Jimbo who decides he has a crush on one of the villains.
And, if that doesn't take the cake, there's a completely inane and tacked on
ending that makes absolutely no sense and has no effect on the story because
there's no build up.
The writer and director attempt to
desperately mimic a Cohen brothers movie with it's mean spirited tone and black
comedy nature, but this type of material is more suited for someone who enjoys
the pain of root canals, because it's just that bad.
This is
a bad lowbrow unfunny attempt at comedy but does nothing but display Southern
and Ethnic stereotypes and cliches at every corner and becomes steeped in
predictability.

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