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My experience with Birdemic is wholly exclusive – in fact, you’ll see me if you focus very intently on a two-second scene in the teaser trailer for Moviehead: The James Nguyen Story, included on this disk. Mr. Nguyen, the self-titled “master of the romantic thriller”, made an appearance at his film’s New York premiere and my friends and I were first on line. I bought a ticket almost immediately after seeing this astounding trailer. The next couple of weeks saw an actively cajoling of close friends in an effort to warm them up to this film. Without having seen it, I secretly hoped it would approach the grandeur of Tommy Wiseau’s The Room – that improbable genius that results from a film so ineptly orchestrated that it redefines your idea of how bad movies get.

Sadly, it doesn’t – but that’s not to say Birdemic doesn’t carve...

Chicago – There is a fine line that separates entertainingly bad movies from all-out bores. “The Room” is a truly original, wholly accidental work of comedic genius that greatly benefits from the impenetrable strangeness of its writer/director/star Tommy Wiseau. The film is so funny in so many different ways that it could easy hold up under countless viewings.

“Birdemic: Shock and Terror” is the first film to aim for “Room”-like success with audiences, passing itself off as another unintentionally side-splitting travesty. Yet the picture is nowhere near as hilarious as it thinks it is. Filmmaker James Nguyen is a charmless hack who blatantly steals the plots and characters from classic Hitchcock movies. His copying of “The Birds” is so shameless that it recalls the scandalous cut-and-paste job done by Camillo Teti, who populated his jaw-dropping “Titanic: The Animated Movie” with an assortment of thinly veiled Disney characters.

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