June 10, 2008
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Even with mustard, it's still just animal parts.Mark Steilen's unexpectedly mundane 2008 comedy Wieners is, in my rough estimation, the sort of second-rate direct-to-video motion picture one generally watches after consuming large amounts of cheap alcohol in the unfinished basement of a friend's sparsely-decorated house. In other words, this one's strictly for the boys -- women need not apply. At all. Simply put, it's the Generation Y equivalent of a Police Academy movie, a hodge-podge of poorly-written sketches centered around a central premise that no sane adult would find the least bit appealing. That said, Steilen and crew -- which includes Kenan Thompson, Fran Kranz, and Zachary Levi, among others -- do manage a few genuine moments of inspired hilarity in-between frantic bouts of overblown gross-out gags and misplaced homophobic wisecracking. Go figure! And if naked ladies and bodily fluids aren't enough tickle your funny bone, the filmmakers have also generously equipped their dodgy production with Hitler jokes, hillbilly jokes, and, yes, hot dog jokes in a lame attempt to violently yank laughter from its audience. The film's heart is certainly in the right place, to be sure, but most won't be able to see the gentle forest for the vulgar trees. That's because Wieners is brutally juvenile, powered by the imagination of an awkward teenage boy who has just discovered the unbridled joy of wanton masturbation. If a road trip featuring the oh-so familiar misadventures of a pair of goofy twenty-somethings sounds better than anything else you've got going on at the moment, perhaps Wieners will satisfy your indiscriminate hunger for humor. It may be as hollow as your grandmother's rotten wooden leg, but at least it's better than Saturday Night Live. Barely.
Recipe For Disaster: Darrell Hammond's Dr. Phil Impersonation + One Too Many Potty Giggles + Please, No More Beyonce Jokes
Jenny McCarthy Rocks: She's really the only reason I'd recommend this moldy dog to anyone. Actually, just save your money.
Wait for someone to upload her scene on YouTube, instead.
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