This movie has a few humorous moments, including a screwdriver impacting a guy in the head fairly well. It’s also filmed extraordinarily well, with good sound and camerawork.

  It’s just really not that interesting. By and large, it’s trying to be funny. Taking the form of an infomercial pleading with people to drop a buck on their movie project, it intersperses pleas for money with little vignettes of comedy. Problem is, they’re not funny, they’re very much a crowd of in-joke styled humor, and it’s awkwardly disjointing in narrative.

The idea of selling out, being anathema to most of what I live for, can’t really help this piece’s case, either. I understand that they’re doing it in the name of sarcasm (or maybe not, as they inform us on their website), but regardless, beyond very fine satire that straddles the line even then (“Sell Out” by the Reel Big Fish, for example), it falls flat in terms of humor to anyone save those who have sold out, who will not, by and large, want to laugh at indie produced films.

It’s also sad to watch this film and see the technical skills that is obviously here go to waste on such a piece. I remember thinking if they can do something this polished without financing without funding for fifteen minutes, that’s a good quarter of a decent piece right there, assuming the plea for money is real, and assuming the plea for money is not real, why not simply make a feature film?

On a whole, they would have done well to take this fine film crew and attach it to a good comedy writer. I’d be interested to see what these guys could do technically if they actually got a hand on something entertaining.

• For more information on "Sellout!" visit its official web pages: http://www.myspace.com/selloutfilm and http://www.selloutthe99centmovie.com/

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