Oh, so wrong...

Oh, dear lord.

The movie is hilarious and wrong and horrifically disgusting and uproarious. If you are of age - interestingly, the Esquire is carding for this movie as though it were an NC-17 even though it's unrated and they've shown unrated movies there before without the carding thing, an example of mild censorship? - then you should absolutely go see this film. It's a series of professional comics and comedy writers and entertainers (including jugglers, a card trick expert, a couple of magicians, and an hilarious mime) telling and talking about the same joke for about two hours, but the time absolutely flies by.


We get to see the South Park characters tell the joke. We get to see Kevin Pollack tell the joke as Christopher Walken. Sarah Silverman recounts how she was a part of the act long ago. The editorial staff of The Onion work up their own version of the joke. Robin Williams, Martin Mull, and Drew Carey tell similar jokes. Eric Idle screws the joke up. Rob Schneider nearly passes out from hearing Gilbert Godfried tell the joke. Andy Richter and another comedian tell the joke to their infant children. Jason Alexander tells the joke in a sidewalk cafe. Bob Saget works about as blue as it's possible to work, finally blinding the boy in the joke. Oh, it's a wonderful couple of hours.

The film's not perfect. The pacing's odd and a little akward at times, and there's really no ending, just a stop, but that fits in with the joke. Do stay around for the credits, though, as they go through the various commedians and give names, and then the whole thing closes with an encouragement for people to send in their versions of the joke to be included on the DVD - which I will be owning when it comes out.

For filmmaking value - two stars out of four.
For entertainment - four out of four.
Overall - it's a three...nice beat, you can dance to it.