Fishing with Gandhi

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.

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.

This is laugh out loud funny. It is Sling Blade meets Dumb and Dumber, think about that for awhile. The twins in this movie are incredible and their subjects of conversation are beyond belief. Of course, this is a rather low budget film and sometimes the audio is less than perfect, which is sad, because you really want to hear all of the brilliant lines being spoken. This movie details the adventures of Dan who is returning from Oregon, where he has just attended a wedding, his mother marrying his uncle. Dan is given a ride back to California by two brothers that are, let's just say, "touched." The rest is for you to enjoy. This is not rocket science, just good fun.

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.

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.