Hot Rod (DVD)

When I was a youth there was a cartoon series that was the talk of the playground. You may have heard of it, the show was called 'The Simpsons'. What made 'The Simpsons' so wonderful was its mystery and unavailability. You see this was before BBC2 and Channel 4 showed it and only rich friends with Sky had it. Luckily for me one such friend recorded several episodes onto VHS for me and I duly watched said episodes over and over again to the point were I still know all the dialogue when these episodes inevitably turn up on TV. One episode saw Bart want to become a stuntman; trying to put him off this idea his parents allow him to visit a stuntman in hospital. Rather ...

(Also appears at ShaunMunro.co.uk) Director: Akiva Schaffer Cast: Will Arnett, Isla Fisher, Ian McShane, Adam Samberg, Sissy Spacek Release Date: August 3rd, 2007 (US), August 17th, 2007 (UK) Certificate: PG-13 (US) Hot Rod, quite simply, is one of the strangest, most offbeat comedies to come our way since Napoleon Dynamite (a film which, I hasten to add, I wasn't terribly fond of upon first viewing). Filled with irreverent gags, and so-called "random" interludes of "humour", Hot Rod is a curiosity of a comedy. It becomes clear early on that much of the laughs to be sought in Hot Rod are physical, ...

I've just been to see my brother who's just got back in the country the other day having been out to Dubai on business. We said the usual 'hellos' and what-not but then he asks me if I've seen a film called 'Hot Rod'. Apparently he watched it on the plane back to the UK, thought it was fantastic and asked if I wanted to watch it now. You've got to bear in mind that by watching the film we would have missed the football on TV so the film must have been a cut above the rest! It was. The story is the usual american mr. nobody comes good formula but where this differs is that whenever it appears that it is going to get disgustingly saccharin it side-swipes you ...