Shawn's Bruce and Lloyd Out of Control Review

2008 Movie #93 - Bruce and Lloyd Out of Control

For those of you who don't know, this is a direct to dvd movie which follows two of the supporting characters from the recent theatrical Get Smart movie. You remember those characters? No? Well they were the ones that weren't very funny but it was ok because they weren't in the movie much. So who decided enough people wanted them to have their own feature length film?

I don't mind the idea of releasing what is essentially a side story to another movie. It's actually a pretty good idea and one that could be done really well. This is a failed oppurtunity and one of the biggest mistakes is again, these aren't characters who needed to have their own movie, not at all. If you're going to present a side story then you better make it worth our while, but this one is not worth the time.

I wouldn't mind a movie about these characters if at least it was funny, but this movie is really, really not funny. It's almost flat out embarassing at times. Many of the jokes are just roll your eyes terrible. You eventually start to feel bad for the actors who are a part of this. Although it looks like a lot of them could really give a shit either. It's a little strange how bad this movie is because it actually does have the same two writers as the actual Get Smart movie, which I enjoyed. Maybe they were contractually obligated to write this movie as well and just didn't the time or caring to make it a good movie.

I like Masi Oka (mostly from Heroes) but he just seems uninterested here. I also feel bad for Jayma Mayes because she seems like she has comedic potential (her character gets the only moments that even somewhat resemble something that could almost be maybe kinda funny) and she is very attractive, but between this and Epic Movie she has been in some awful movies. I should write a movie just for her because damn it, she deserves it. The actor playing Lloyd is actually pretty fucking irritating and is just trying way too hard. It doesn't help to take unfunny material and scream it in your face, just ask College Road Trip about that.

Overall, I think this is a novel idea that could have worked but just fails and fails spectaculiarly. Just a really really really unfunny movie. At least it's only 63 minutes, but that didn't help Meet the Spartans case at all.

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