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This film ran on the Sundance Channel last night, and after watching less than ten minutes of it, i knew I was in the presence of yet another poorly written, embarrassingly acted piece of TLA crap. This film had me groaning out loud at how poorly written the dialog is. It makes Kevin Smith films seem like Shakespeare...and I hate Kevin Smith.

If you are so starved for frontal nudity, I guess you could turn the sound off and get a few nice bodies to look at now and then. But I warn you, if the sound is on, you're going to be screaming at the screen.

Don't waste 90 minutes of your life on this mess. Rent "Shortbus" instead.

I was a big fan of Jessica Yu's previous film, "In The Realms Of The Unreal" about outsider artist Henry Darger. There she used animations of Darger's creepy outsider art drawings to great narrative effect.

Challenging herself to do the same with this film, she's incorporated four moderately interesting (and i do mean moderately) stories of four disparate men and tried to merge them into a 90 minute Greek tragedy with cheesy puppetry and Greek inspired title sequences: "CATHARSIS", "CERTAINTY", "CHARACTER", "COST", "DOUBT"....etc. I would've settled for just one "PRETENTIOUS". The puppets at times had me laughing out loud (Watch for the bank robbery sequence with the quivering shaking teller puppet. It belongs in Team America, World Police.

I much prefer the work of Errol Morris, whom I think Ms. Yu lifts heavily from.

Do yourself a favor, and rent a great film like "The Thin Blue Line" or "Gates Of Heaven" or "Standard Operating Procedure". This will seem pretty thin after those.

This is really not a very good comedy. Although I have enjoyed watching Corolla as a comedian and on such Comedy Central shows as "The Man Show", this is a poorly assembled, no-surprise comedy.

I guess the real benchmark in a comedy is whether it makes you laugh or not. This one doesn't have much that even made the group I was watching it with laugh...or even grin.

There's no chemistry at all between Corolla and the female lead. A long, long, long scene at the La Brea Tar Pits just feels like the Woody Allen scene with Diane Keaton in the planetarium from "Manhattan". Redone.

I did enjoy the actor playing the Nicaraguan sidekick, but its not enough to recommend you wasting 91 minutes of time on this.

Sad to say I bought it from a clearance table at a video store. Something should have told me it was a turkey seeing the large stack of them for sale at $6.

You're funnier than this, Adam...I expected more.

One star.