I first discovered "S*** Show" on Kickstarter and decided not to pledge money to it, but I was still kinda interested in seeing the film after its completion. Well, after watching it, I'm glad I didn't pledge any money to it. It's not terrible, but it just didn't make me laugh.
"S*** Show" has both animated and live action scenes. It starts with two guys talking about the film "You Got Served" and whether or not that's the title of the film. I haven't seen "You Got Served" and I forgot about the fact that it exists. The two guys are playing tennis and their ball is accidentally hit into a sewer, where we meet the three animated main characters. They're a bloody tampon, a piece of excrement, and a used heroin needle. Oh, and they talk. Admittedly, the sewer looks very good and the stop motion animation of these characters is also very good. I liked the voice acting of the needle and the excrement, but not the tampon. That voice sounded rather obnoxious. The tampon screams and I thought it was awful. I wanted it to shut up.
Like I wrote, I wasn't laughing throughout the film. There are maybe a few moments that are a little funny, but that's it. There's a live action scene where a guy says to a woman that he kissed Amazon founder Jeff Bezos in the '80s. Is that supposed to be funny? I don't get it. I dunno what to say. Humour is subjective. Will most people who watch "S*** Show" find it hilarious? I'm not sure.
At times, this film isn't easy to watch. It's gross, but it tries to convince you that the three main characters are more than what they look like. That they deserve to be loved or something. OK, fine, but I didn't really care about these characters. The concept of an ugly looking character having inner beauty is unoriginal. I guess I don't really like films that are too gross. I was watching this obscure feature length comedy film called "Gross Out" and I couldn't finish watching it because it was really disgusting. Luckily, "S*** Show" is pretty short and I still wanted to give it a chance. Plus, while it has excrement, nobody eats it like in "Gross Out".
So yeah, "S*** Show" isn't very funny, but it definitely has good animation and mostly good acting. I should mention that there's a scene with a drug addict that is visually interesting. It kinda reminds me of that film "Spun". "S*** Show" is certainly odd, but an odd film isn't always a good film. Again, it's not terrible, but I don't think I can recommend it.
