06/01/06 Live Freaky Die Freaky

Live Freaky Die Freaky (2006), directed by John Roecker

watched w/ Leslie (partially); DVD rental (Netflix) @ car ride (from Southern Pines, NC to Raleigh, NC); suggested by John S.

If you thought "Team America: World Police" was a twisted puppeteer adventure of the worst kind...well, you will definitely loathe this one. If you thought that the "South Park" guys bringing us into the world of rude, crude & socially unacceptable behavior in puppets was only the beginning of the slow decline of civilization into the abyss...than you may want to avoid this sin. However, if you thought that those guys only touched the tip of the sick-o iceberg with their mastery of the puppet parts...then this may be the hellish second chapter that you have been longing for. I personally thought that while "Team America" was crude yes...infantile maybe...it still provided laughs and spared no punches which is at least commendable. However, what the filmmakers and voice-over actors have done here with this "Freaky" flick is, well, freak this reviewer the heck out. OK, I'm willing to give an experimental film its due in a trial run, and with some of the oddball friends I have suggesting movies to me...I get some doozies to see. This one, was downright stupid and gross. Basic premise...in the post-apocalyptic year 3069, a wanderer stumbles across a copy of "Helter Skelter." The vagabond believes the book to be a sacred text, and Charles Manson to be the new messiah...so he embarks upon a drug-induced quest to change the world's viewpoint (I think I've got it so far). In a world in ruins by war & pollution, the population consists of miscreants and psychos who like to dabble in revolting activities and song & dance numbers. Yeah, and they're puppets folks! Puppets who dabble in sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. And the guy who directed this obviously has tons of friends in the biz, and they somehow owe him a ton of favors...because he got so many top names in the punk rock scene to do voices in the film (e.g. John Doe, Jane Wiedlin, the Green Day guys, the Rancid guys, Davey Havok from AFI, Travis Barker from Blink-182, Sean Yseult from White Zombie, the Good Charlotte bros, Henry Rollins, and the ever-annoying Kelly Osbourne here under pseudonym Nelly Posbourne). It's a sick, sad movie...makes you want to vomit. Hey Jason, you might like it...plus the songs were pretty catchy...I can't get Billie Joe's tune "Maniacal Man" out of my head. Alas, Charlie don't surf.

1 out of 5 stars