The Disappearance of Toby Blackwood (2022) User Reviews

When power corrupts... make a mock & scoff film

[mike-c-b · 1/10 · 27 May 2023]

Any topic that's weird topic that would normally be a human, adult conversation, in this film is a chance to misunderstand, mock, degrade, form gangs about, and create psychological barriers so no one says or thinks anything about the associated topic without threat of being socially outcast.

People can relate to the idea of when power corrupts in the film 1984, but in this film people police any and all weird social topics. How is the viewer supposed to relate to this?

Mocking as humour doesn't work no matter what the topic is, and it paints the characters as trolls and gremlins... What is a movie with just trolls running around...

This movie is hysterical!

[miserylovesshotguns · 10/10 · 5 January 2023]

I heard about this from Dan Cummins on the Timesuck podcast, he said he made a cameo, and I immediately knew I had to watch it. The gist of it is that these people are in quarantine, a guy they used to know has found youtube fame making conspiracy/prepper videos, and now he's missing. They interview a bunch of unhinged maniacs to find clues about where he is and those interactions were probably my favorite part of the movie. They had some big actors make appearances and my wife especially got a kick out of seeing Winston from New Girl. I assumed that the front end would be loaded with humor and then it would slow down and have a less amusing second half but that wasn't the case. They do eventually figure out where Toby is and that whole scene is amazing. It was a solid story with laughs throughout, and most of all, it was an original idea. There isn't anything else I can think of like this and I appreciated that. My primary takeaway; buy a urine filtration system! Watch the movie and it will make sense.