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Surf School (2006)
Joyless and half-hearted
Of all the movies I've seen, even the terrible ones, I haven't encountered many that cared as little about themselves as this movie does. It seems uninterested in the characters, the plot, and even the premise of the story. Despite being titled "Surf School", the process of learning to surf gets very little screen time. More time is spent chasing after the women of the film, who seen to serve no purpose except to model swimsuits. Then again, the men are only there to chase the women.
Someone in production must have found the line "Mahi-mahi" hysterical, as Rip repeats it several times throughout, never achieving more than a vague sensation of nausea. Again, someone must have found the emcee for the competition tolerable and perhaps even amusing as he gave lines that must have been ad-libbed about the attractiveness of teenage boys. The list of bad decisions goes on and on.
I suppose it's moderately entertaining to watch this for the purpose of mocking it, but then there are so many other movies that serve that function so much better.
Breaking Wind (2012)
It really couldn't be much worse
I write this review as a fan of bad movies in general. I've tried to watch my way through lists of the worst movies ever and thus came upon this film. So please take that into consideration when I say that this movie belongs near the top of my "Most Hated" list. It's worse than the Friedberg/Seltzer parodies and far less creative than anything the Wayans brothers have done. It is truly one of the most demented cultural products I have ever witnessed.
That all of the jokes consist in flatulence, excrement. The viewer is subjected to a 71 minute barrage of content that ranges from the lazy to the outright revolting, such that I am baffled that anyone involved in the production of this movie ever thought anyone might enjoy it. Scene after scene is revealed to be nothing more than the set-up for someone having diarrhea or snot in their nose.
To top it off, the movie concludes by mocking various online videos of Twilight fans gushing about how much they loved Eclipse. At this point, the full enormity of Breaking Wind is clear. No one connected with the making of this movie has any right to criticize Twilight fans for anything. Yes, their fandom is excessive and embarrassing, but I'll take that any day over this movie that revels in its own vulgarity and offensiveness and a filmmaker that takes a cynical delight in assaulting the sensibilities of his audience.
Finally, it's worth noting that if you haven't seen the Twilight films, a decent number of the "jokes" in this movie will be incomprehensible to you. It relies heavily on its audience having watched multiple movies of the Twilight saga, making it unclear exactly who it is trying to reach.
It's not funny, not competent, not creative, and not worth anyone's time watching.