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You'll hate it or love it. Entirely self effacing main character with no scruples beyond getting drunk and getting laid. Lawrence's dialogue is brilliantly obscene and the main focus of a show with the most threadbare of plots. Whenever you start to empathize with Butchy, Lawrence takes it away by plumbing even greater depths of debasement and depravity. The other characters are cartoonish except perhaps Blanche, but the show works. Don't expect great season enders, as the entire series is a merely vehicle for Lawrence's brilliant humour. Show ran for three seasons with at least a dozen episodes each. Pretty good for Canadian fare, you'll walk away or laugh and pour yourself a drink.

The film's a parody of Johnny Cash and the film "Walk The Line". It makes no bones about being clever, and it really isn't. You can see the jokes coming, but they are pretty funny. The whole film is predictable but it is also enjoyable. The best parts are the songs, which are full of pregnant pauses and innuendo, especially the parody of "Jackson". Jenna Fischer is gorgeous and easy on the eye compared to the befuddled and eternally confused character of Dewey Cox. There are only a few letdowns in the film. The final song, the summation of the character's life "Hell of a Ride" was unlike the rest of the film in that it was bland and totally unmemorable and a real let down. The other is the casting of the obese Jack Black as a young Paul McCartney. The film isn't worth owning, but if you can borrow a copy it is worth a watch. 6 out of 10.

2 out of 10. A stupid film with bad acting and horrible effects that have nothing to do with any past Bond films. Totally forgettable random effects and no story line. The film opens with a chase scene that would have done Spiderman proud, replete with exploding gas tanks, and out of control bulldozers and skyscraper fist fights. It was a cartoon, not an action film. This "Bond" kills innocent bystanders. We see Bond's first kill - a badly choreographed wrestling match in a filthy men's washroom where he tried to drown the bad guy in a fetid sink. The opening credits are cartoons with bad graphics of "Bond" killing bad guys with card symbols. The song is forgettable and poor and there are no Bond girls. Dame Judy Dench is the new M who is just a rough pig who swears incessantly and walks fast. Whatever this is, it ain't James Bond. No style, no panache, no irony. It's like a porno, straight action and no story. Unwatchable and a huge disappointment. 2 out of 10.