Fishing with Gandhi

This film has quickly become one of my top 3. Sure, it's filmed where I live, but the dialoge (when you can hear it--the sound quality's not great) is a crack-up throughout and the casual pace of the movie makes it fan-double-tastic. Up there with Clerks. Watch it a few times if you don't think you caught everything because it. is. worth. it. In response to a previous comment, the "rednecks" don't "torment" Danno, they help him re-evaluate his priorities and take a lighter-hearted approach to life. I think I'm going to have a sweatshirt made that quotes something from this movie...maybe "I'm your brother...Ghandi loves everybody" or "upside-down blood fountain." Very highly recommended!

This is one of the funniest character comedies I've ever seen. It's obviously a low-budget film with minimal plot but offers original humor you just can't find in Hollywood movies. The Reichmuth brothers especially are brilliant, portraying central California's unique brand of yokel. Meanwhile, the San Francisco based characters resonate perfectly, using humor to target the neuroses of post-collegiate city life.

I saw it at a San Francisco film festival, and the place was breaking up. See it if you can find it.

We have watched this move a dozen times and still love it. It is low budget and has bad sound at times, but it is so funny. It's like if your best friends were funny as all get out and made a student film. It is weird, but if you don't like it, there is something wrong with you. If you judge the movie on its own merits instead of comparing it to well financed movies, I'm sure you will enjoy it.

There are really two parts to the movie and they are different in character. In one part Danno (Klein) hitchhikes home with Roy and Gil (the Reichmuths). Now, I am not going to describe Roy and Gil; that is not possible. I can only say that we had to watch the movie three times in a row because we all laughed so hard at them that could not hear the next joke. The second part concerns Danno's roommates as they prepare for his homecoming. This part of the movie is not nearly as funny, at least not in the guffaw inducing Roy and Gil way. The third time we watched it though, we all appreciated the characters and humor more.

This has become a classic with us and we still quote it after five years.

I saw the trailer for this movie and thought it would be hilarious, but BOY was I disappointed. I can see how it was SUPPOSED to be funny, but the entire plot was about how two incredibly stupid redneck brothers saw the world and tormented a poor hitch hiker who was returning from his mother's wedding to his uncle, only 6 months after his father had died. Maybe I would have "gotten it" a little better if the sound was consistent, but the whole thing to me sounded like a bunch of nonsensical redneck grumbling. What a waste of a film.

Fishing With Ghandi is one of those movies that you can quote every line with you friends and watch over and over again. Cow Monkey is their latest movie. Please check out the site royandgil.com and order your VHS tape of Cow Monkey or DVD of Fishing With Ghandi.