Whereas other low budget films like "Tokyo Gore Police", "Vampire Girl VS Frankenstien Girl", "Machine Girl", "Bad Taste" and the original "Evil Dead" were very low budget, they are memorable because of how extreme and screwed up they were.
They have moments that would have you talk to your friends about; "Oh there's a moment where this gruesome scene happens" and so on.
AVGN The Movie has nothing screwed up or extreme about it.
It doesn't have any exciting scenes that you're dying to tell your friends.
It is cool that James has finally made his first feature film. But he's not a professional filmmaker, he's more of an internet video maker.
The jokes in this are quite poor. Since neither James or Kevin are professional comedy writers, we have some really lame jokes that are obviously from first timers who have never written comedy before.
James himself is not an actor and yes, his bad acting adds a charm to the Nerd. That's fine for 15 minutes, but when you keep up the bad acting for 2 hours, the charm wears out very fast.
Yes, the overuse of the Nerd making references to fecal matter is just tiresome. It was tiresome in the show and it is no better here.
The cinematography is lame and feels like a straight to DVD film than an actual movie. Even the trailer looked cheap and bad.
This movie looks more like something you would see on the Sy-fy channel than a theatrical feature.
The special effects in this movie are bad, but are intentionally so for the sake of comedy, like in Austin Powers, Team America, The Lego Movie, Harry Hill's work and The Young Ones. But those movies and shows were actually funny.
Here, the joke doesn't work. It could be the really bad HD and straight to video feel that puts off the charm of the bad effects.
Also the sloppy editing. There are some unfinished looking shots here.
The movie is self aware it's low budget and tries to make fun of itself, but it's just not funny. I'm not a fan of self deprecation. It's too "winking at the audience" for me.
I will have to admit, the score is very good. The opening theme is amazing and I like the theme "Birds Before Nerds".
If this was an internet movie like the TGWTG Anniversary specials, it would've worked. But here, it's an internet movie trying to be theatrical and fails.
AVGN works as an internet series, but not as a movie.
