Hacks

I saw this mockumentary at Sundance in mid January and was in love. When I was at Sundance, I saw a huge amount of self-important angst-ridden crap that's been done a million times (albeit in many different forms). I had no idea what to expect from this movie - it's a mockumentary about a group of horrendously bad stand-up comics. Sounds like it MIGHT work, right? Well, I was thrilled to see that it DID work in ways I've never seen done before. The movie has a really weird feel to it. It's definately not a typical mockumentary. In fact, it's not you typical anything. It's just insane. My friends and I were cracking up even after it ended. I won't give away the ending, but it was REALLY cool. You wouldn't expect this kind of movie to have any kind of real message, but there is one - and it's totally cool. You get the feeling the folks who made this really GET it. Very cool. If you catch this flick, remember to "cup the balls!" There should be more movies like this. Movies with balls. Peace

There's some really funny stuff in this fake documentary about a bunch of misfit stand-up comics. I caught this at a festival in Park City, UT that was happening at the same time as Sundance. While some of the stuff in the film is hilarious, some of it is just in poor taste. The biggest problem with this movie is that it's about half an hour too long. You can cut all the boring slow stuff out of it and have a really funny hour long film. Worth catching if you can see it with some college freshmen while drunk.

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.

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.

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.