Tim & Eric's Billion Dollar Movie (Blu-ray/DVD/Digital Copy) (2012)

My wife and I are big T&E fans... I'll admit that I'm a much bigger fan than my wife, but we both love their work on TGTTM and T&EASGJ!, not to mention the many other pies they have their fingers in. I have watched every episode of the aforementioned shows so many times that I'm surprised that there's room for anything in my brain *aside* from Tim and Eric quotes at this point.

Now that B$M is out, the Internets are filling with 5or 10-star reviews from other fellow fans. So I guess I'll be the first to say that we were both a little let down by the movie.

A lot of folks have commented that this is "just like Awesome Show." I agree and disagree, and on both fronts it's not necessarily a 100% good thing. A great number of the gags are things that have been effectively recycled from past Awesome Show episodes. Stretched out to cinema pace and viewed through the "clearer" eye of film, the recycled stuff doesn't work nearly as well as it did when new.

Meanwhile, the intertextual public-access / VHS-glitch stuff that makes so much of their comedy on TV doesn't quite jibe on the big screen, since there really is no cinematic parallel to the raw, unintentionally hilarious crappiness of public access (unless you consider Birdemic to be mainstream cinema). T&E seem to have wisely recognized this, and have (mostly) kept the broken/ obsolete-tech humor to segments that are based around the third-party viewing of TV formats. But it's sorely missed... and when it's present, it looks pretty odd (as opposed to funny).

The plot is a ridiculous afterthought, effectively, and I don't think any T&E fan would reasonably expect otherwise. T&E have left room for as many pokes at big / dumb mainstream cinema tropes as possible. But given this, it really could have contained a great deal more pokes. The pacing seems a little slow and lazy in quite a few places, although I suppose almost anything would seem slow compared to Awesome Show.

And though it feels weird to bring this up in a review of a Tim and Eric production, I also feel that things were formally imbalanced. With all the time spent at the S'wallow Valley Mall, we only get a (painfully) narrated rush-through of how T&E ended up in their billion-dollar predicament to begin with. In my mind, at least, it would have been so much funnier to *see* this setup play itself out. (Maybe this went down because they were trying to keep things to 90 minutes. I've gotta ask: why do all modern comedy movies have to be exactly 90 minutes long? Things can be funny for longer than an hour and a half.)

Finally, Zach G and John C. Reilly-who have contributed SO much to past episodes of Awesome Show (and of course, in the latter case, to Check It Out!)-find their talents kind of wasted in this film, in relatively one-dimensional roles that could have been so much bigger and so much more funny and/or complex. Will Ferrell is great, though (something you can't always say for him), and Will Forte is also wonderful as usual.

T&E have also found great roles for nearly all of their "best" non-celebrity Awesome Show supporting cast; it's so great to see more than five seconds of a Quall standup routine for once. (I still would have liked to see more Palmer Scott, though, and I am sure some of the many DL-H fans will be a little disappointed with the extent of his screentime.)

The Reddit Q&A that T&E undertook on the day of on-demand release seems to suggest that they see the immediate future of their work in film. Make no mistake, I liked B$M, thought it had some really great moments, will undoubtedly watch it many more times... and I would LOVE to see another film from Tim and Eric (and yes, I'm also chomping at the bit for a chance to see The Comedy).

But I don't think Tim and Eric can make another film anything like this one and remain vital. I'm hoping that, having gotten the apparent cinematic conclusion to Awesome Show out of their system, these two geniuses will now turn to showing us what they can *really* do with the movie format... something really new that departs significantly from their past work, while retaining their inimitable and uncompromising sense of humor-*and* the cerebral qualities of their best past work. The latter is the part I think I miss the most in watching B$M, which comes off like T&E at their intentionally-dumbest more often than not on first blush. Maybe I will feel differently after repeat viewings, though.

One last note: This movie is for existing fans. Contrary to what you might reasonably expect from the duo's first Big (or "Big") Theatrical Release, there is absolutely *no* accomodation for the uninitiated, who will probably hate this and/or will have no idea what the hell is going on throughout. If you're new to the T&E universe, start with an early season of Awesome Show, or possibly Tom Goes To The Mayor.

Another winner by timanderic.com. This movie was inspired by Jackie Chan's 100 years in show business. My dad would be so proud of the boys but is unable to hear the movie because of an unfortunate incident with the trumpets.

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--There is no reason to consider this movie if you aren't into this kind of humor--

This humor, Time and Eric/Matt and Trey/ type humor is so crazily specific that I can't possible understand why you would bother buying this without at least doing some research on it first. Check out their other things, their web episodes of their shows, check out interviews online, watch the trailer, if you don't like it then don't touch this movie because it is so at a complete other level of humor that the only way you'd like this movie is if you KNOW you'll like this movie before you even see anything other than the title.

If you don't know what this movie is, if you don't recognize the name combination "Tim and Eric['s]" and if you haven't seen Tom Goes to the Mayor, Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job, or Check It Out, then you will not like this movie. Check one of those shows out and if it's your bag of bones they you'll love this movie with it's outrageous story and effects (basically no budget and a bunch of celebrity spots). It's a crazy stupid story, of course, but it's an amazing movie if you are fans of Tim and Eric.

Also the movie is really gross. Having said that I'm going to get this.

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This movie is so terrible, but that's probably why I like it so much. I am a massive Tim and Eric fan and this Blue-Ray of their movie is a must-have. Let the shrim wash over you.

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Epically hilarious, as Tim and Eric always are. If you loved the show, be prepared to fall in love all over again. Thankfully, my new husband also enjoyed it. I'd hate to have to divorce him.

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