This is a moving, sensitive tale of the plight of a lonely, misunderstood bigfoot monster, and the tragically comic chain of unfortunate events that lead to the death of this majestic creature.
A central theme of the film is the depiction of several characters' struggles with cruel disabilities. Chief among these: bigfoot's excessive hairiness (shared, to a lesser extent, by Brick McPherson, forging an emotional bond between these two characters that could only be severed by a chainsaw), Mark the Lumberjack's plight of having lost an eye in Vietnam (backstory which, while never explicitly mentioned in any way whatsoever, is clear from the subtle context of Ken Johnson's multi-faceted performance), addiction to chicken and/or human flesh (again, a common bond between bigfoot and Brick), and really, really severe mental retardation (entire cast and crew).
Summary: You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll gradually shed skin cells and you'll convert some oxygen to CO2. It helps if you drink a few beers during, before and after the movie, and also while you write your review. (Trust me on this one.) Actually, a few beers are a good idea pretty much all the time. Go have some beer right now. (This, by the way, is another central theme of the Lumberjack movie - almost forgot to mention it!) My Rating: 10 bottles of beer on the wall.
A central theme of the film is the depiction of several characters' struggles with cruel disabilities. Chief among these: bigfoot's excessive hairiness (shared, to a lesser extent, by Brick McPherson, forging an emotional bond between these two characters that could only be severed by a chainsaw), Mark the Lumberjack's plight of having lost an eye in Vietnam (backstory which, while never explicitly mentioned in any way whatsoever, is clear from the subtle context of Ken Johnson's multi-faceted performance), addiction to chicken and/or human flesh (again, a common bond between bigfoot and Brick), and really, really severe mental retardation (entire cast and crew).
Summary: You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll gradually shed skin cells and you'll convert some oxygen to CO2. It helps if you drink a few beers during, before and after the movie, and also while you write your review. (Trust me on this one.) Actually, a few beers are a good idea pretty much all the time. Go have some beer right now. (This, by the way, is another central theme of the Lumberjack movie - almost forgot to mention it!) My Rating: 10 bottles of beer on the wall.