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 movie is extremely funny. Don't listen to the people saying it's not. The movie isn't as hard to understand as people are saying, you just have to pay attention and turn the sound way up. But it's worth it. The thing that some people don't appreciate is that you're just thrown into the dialogue of Roy and Gil like being dropped on a desert island and you have to figure out where you are. When you listen to them, sure they're Rednecks and extremely stupid, but they have a certain quality. I mean, they are out there in existence getting by just like the rest of us, so who's to say that they're hopeless or anything. They have their own logic, it just takes a while to understand that because they say such ridiculous things that serve as proof that in a strictly booksmart sense, they're probably on about the second or third grade level. But don't feel sorry for them. As for the rest of the cast, they're equally brilliant. Giles and Stephen are great at getting on each others nerves, and you can see when Dano finally gets home that the best dynamic for them is the three man. Chris Culdoon is similarly a stroke of genius. Anyone who appreciates movies driven by interesting and humorous dialogue instead of big budget effects and inane and predictable dialogue and stories won't be disappointed.

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.

In spite of its rather poor sound quality, this is one of the funniest films i've seen (~45 times). Borrowing some character and plot elements from Hamlet, and adding a few of its own, Fishing With Gandhi explores the farcical reality of coming to grips with grief and the failures of language in dealing with difficult emotions. The dialogue is intense and often outrageously funny (note, for example, the twins' memorable discussion of "electrical heart explosions"), and the characterizations weirdly familiar. Granted, due to the poor sound quality it took me ~10 viewings to figure out exactly what was going on - but that's really part of the joy of this film: every viewing offers new discoveries, most of them hysterical.

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.