This wannabe shocking and in-your-face offensive "politically incorrect" comedy operates under the premise that human beings are inherently mean, selfish, and just plain nasty. The detestable creeps featured in this flick are among the most hateful, irritating, and grotesquely unsympathetic pieces of subhuman slime to ever ooze their loathsome way across the screen. Unfortunately, they are also extremely boring and uninteresting. Spending over 100 minutes in the company of these repellent a**holes is anything but a breezy, amusing, and enjoyable experience. Worse yet, the various bad taste jokes about such things as AIDS, rape, taking drugs and getting high, masturbation, religion, vomiting, tampons, and homosexuality aren't remotely funny or witty. Writer/director Bill Zebub's flat and uninspired execution of the rambling narrative doesn't help matters any: the pace plods along at an agonizingly sluggish rate, the blaring alternative rock soundtrack is merely headache-inducing, and the static cinematography further sucks the energy out of the already drab proceedings. The dreadful acting by a lame no-name cast rates as another substantial detriment, with Zebub in particular contributing a very stinky performance as an obnoxious longhair sleazeball. The sole redeeming aspect of this otherwise thoroughly fetid and worthless garbage is some nice gratuitous nudity by a few hot chicks. An absolute clunker.
3 Reviews
The "John Waters" of the new decade!
sleazoid-695-74493125 March 2010
I had heard so many great things about this movie and had kept putting off my purchase. The number one selling point to me was the sentiment among many reviewers that not since John Waters has any director angered as many mainstream idiots. Verily, as I searched the Internet for the title I saw quite a lot of boring people getting their panties in a bunch.
I guess you can say that this is high brow and low brow at the same time. There is a huge amount of irony and sarcasm, so dim-witted people will hate the movie. That goes for brain-washed people too. It's the kind of movie that will make fools condemn it publicly, to appear mature in the eyes of others. But any condemnation of this work of genius is really showing how obtuse you are.
It was amazing to see how the humor hit the toilet level AND the subtle level at the same time. It's a true social-mirror comedy, but it feels hilarious and "wrong" instead of being preachy. Simply astounding.
The cinematography is superb. The camera in a comedy has to be impartial - the actors create the motion. But some really tricky shots and camera movement are in the movie too - but you don't notice because the director is a master. The camera only moves when there is a strategy to the movement. Simpletons who grew up on the MTV (short attention span) style will commit suicide watching this.
I have not laughed this hard in a long time. It's the funniest movie of the year so far. I'll say this again - it fools you into thinking it's basic, but it is complex beyond imagining. When the story first unfolds it almost seems like meandering absurdity, but the story brilliantly resolves in totally unexpected ways. It's so packed with information that each time you watch it you will discover new things. I foresee this movie one day being MANDATORY in film schools.
I guess you can say that this is high brow and low brow at the same time. There is a huge amount of irony and sarcasm, so dim-witted people will hate the movie. That goes for brain-washed people too. It's the kind of movie that will make fools condemn it publicly, to appear mature in the eyes of others. But any condemnation of this work of genius is really showing how obtuse you are.
It was amazing to see how the humor hit the toilet level AND the subtle level at the same time. It's a true social-mirror comedy, but it feels hilarious and "wrong" instead of being preachy. Simply astounding.
The cinematography is superb. The camera in a comedy has to be impartial - the actors create the motion. But some really tricky shots and camera movement are in the movie too - but you don't notice because the director is a master. The camera only moves when there is a strategy to the movement. Simpletons who grew up on the MTV (short attention span) style will commit suicide watching this.
I have not laughed this hard in a long time. It's the funniest movie of the year so far. I'll say this again - it fools you into thinking it's basic, but it is complex beyond imagining. When the story first unfolds it almost seems like meandering absurdity, but the story brilliantly resolves in totally unexpected ways. It's so packed with information that each time you watch it you will discover new things. I foresee this movie one day being MANDATORY in film schools.
Dirtbags is the funniest movie ever made from a couch
btjohnny22 August 2010
Bill Zebub is the bastard cousin of John Waters and Rob Zombie. If you can grab his style, it's his best work yet. I am a fan of some of his work, and hate most of it. "Dirtbags" is easy to laugh at because he knows how to make himself laugh. Fat Slob Druggy moron on a couch masturbates and takes drugs. A minstrel show black-face drug dealer and numb-skull Christian daddy interact as the script becomes didactic with a statement on human behavior. All an excuse to offend those who don't get Bill Z. Like watching a stand-up comic wizz on the guy in the front row who won't crack a smile. Thats the Joke! Go with it, and watch this movie from the back row.
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