A ragtag group of supremely unfunny comedians vie for a spot in an upcoming stand up comedy festival in the mockumentary style. Starring Jim Gaffigan, Victor Varnado.A ragtag group of supremely unfunny comedians vie for a spot in an upcoming stand up comedy festival in the mockumentary style. Starring Jim Gaffigan, Victor Varnado.A ragtag group of supremely unfunny comedians vie for a spot in an upcoming stand up comedy festival in the mockumentary style. Starring Jim Gaffigan, Victor Varnado.
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I don;t think making fun of retardid people is very funny but there's a lot of funny other stuf in this like a white guy playing a black rapper and a middleage lesbian who tells vagina jokes. I couldnt help but laugh a lot. My brother is in a wheelchair and he does fall down sometimes and sometimes it IS funny. I also like the music. The nudity is scary and funny - that something you dont see every day.
This is a funny movie with a serious point. Excellently written and directed. Good acting. If you like truthful, irreverent movies with outrageous humor, this movie will have you laughing so much there will be no time for popcorn. If you have a more restrained sense of humor, are offended by ethnic jokes, or don't care about using humor to get to the truth, you qualify for more popcorn. But you will also leave the theater with a full belly of entertainment and a few humorous moments where even the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse could not restrain the guffaws.
Hacks is about some incredibly lousy stand-up comics in New York City and the inept agency that manages them. See the movie to get the point.
Hacks is about some incredibly lousy stand-up comics in New York City and the inept agency that manages them. See the movie to get the point.
I dont normally write reviews of things 'cause i don't want to waste the time, but after reading the first review of this film, i HAD to write to defend this movie. i saw the movie at sundace film festival in january. ohmigod - i have never laughed so much in my life. i went away from this film blown away at the kinds of things being done on such small budgets. i know the budget from this site anbd cant believe it. Hacks was beautifully shot, expertly performed, brilliantly edited and f*cking hilarious. and in an extremely intelligent way. i read the first guy's review and freaked. i agree that auple of parts (only two VERY small ones) were a bit long, but c'mon!! the movie was so quick paced - and the jokes and perfomances so funny, the slow parts were a nice break! and to suggest that things were done 'in poor taste' - PLEASE! the movie is a parody. if you really GET the joke, you understand that the film was intended to make fun of the self-righteous morons that run show business - even on the lowest rung of the ladder. i thought the movie was f-ing brilliant. you can tell that the people who made this film were very smart, clever individuals who unedrstand that just because you employ certain comedy devices, it doesn't necessarily make it 'low brow' as slower people might lead you to believe. anyway, the movie rocked and deserves to be in every friggin theater in the country. the cast of Hacks are all going to be household names very soon. mark my words. if you can catch this movie anywhere near you - i urge you to do so. you've never seen anything like it and probably never will again (unless these guys make another movie).
Hacks is not tame by any stretch of the imagination, nor is it safe. It is sick, twisted, obscene, disturbing, and brilliantly funny. It manages to take the worst group of stand-up comedians (a group even worse then what you find on basic cable) as they `take their first step to showbiz mortality'. The movie is full of so many incredible lines that still continue to be funny months after having seen the film. In typical-lame-Hollywood-stereo-type-pitch terms, it is Waiting for Guffman raped by Spinal Tap while being exploited by Drop Dead Gorgeous. It is easily the funniest movie to hit the film festival market in years. It will survive in a Cineplex so pray that you can find a copy or it makes it into a film festival near you. If there was ever a movie that needed desperately to find an independent distributor to open up its market it is this.
Saw this movie at New York Film festival and was blown away. The crowd was packed - the laughs were out of control. I knew nothining about this flick going in and didn't know anyone associated with it. It was so smart and hilarious - this flick better come out in the theaters soon. The country needs this now.
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