[Possible Spoilers] I could list all of the problems for this movie in the Goofs section, but I don't think IMDB.com has enough hard disk space to store the terabytes of text it would take. Like the RM, I took my wife to see this movie on the night it started. We wanted to see Big Fish, but we had just missed the showing, so we decided to give Home Teachers a try.
The first 10 minutes was absolutely hilarious. The situational comedy of counting the seconds to get out of a boring Elder's Quorum Meeting about Home Teaching that drags on and on made me laugh harder and longer than I have in a very long time. It makes me chuckle just recalling it. Kurt Hale, you earned your $5 for that one. But as soon as the movie starts spewing out one slap stick dud after another and the story becomes ridiculously and even insulting stupid and unrealistic the whole experience just gets flushed down the toilet along with the protagonist.
I thought Michael Birkeland gave a good performance, but I think we all agree that we are all getting tired of seeing the same actors from The Singles Ward get regurgitated into LDS comedic cinema. There are many talented LDS actors around and it's time to see some new faces.
The story was good intentioned but I ended up very disappointed and unsatisfied. I know it's hard to consistently come up with good material, but you have absolutely no excuse for the horrible editing job, plot holes, and obvious mistakes.
I looked up the time it takes to drive from Salt Lake to Vernal and it is indeed 3 hours one way. We know he got out of church at noon, brother Nelson came over at 12:15, it took him 18 minutes to fix the flat tire and a half hour to visit the two families. So the very earliest he could have left Salt Lake is 1 pm. If they drove strait to vernal and back they would have gotten back at 7 pm.
But way too many things happened to all fit in one day. Before they even arrived in Vernal you could tell the sun was going down, but they got back to Salt Lake as the sun was as bright as at noontime. Also why did the Cop tell them to wait till Monday to call his towing friend and then drive them all the way back? Do you understand how insulting this kind of stuff is to those who love truth?
I can only assume that the other obvious mistakes were done intentionally as some sort of bizarre inside joke. Like when they were driving back with the deer head in the car, one scene it was in the front seat, next in the back, then in the front after only 3 seconds of continuous conversation. And after the car crashed the shadow of the boom came in and out of the bottom left corner several times. If these kinds of things were intentionally put in the film it was a really bad idea as it was very distracting and made it all look very unprofessional and unfunny. Kurt you really have no excuse for missing easy things like this. The product placement advertisements weren't as obvious as they were for the RM, but still very plentiful. I guess Cream O' Weber, Ken Garff, UtahWeddings.com, Maverick, Red Bull, etc. paid you guys big bucks. Well you are going to need that money since the Box Office isn't going to turn a profit.
I saw that you tried to put in a good message at the end, but the endless slap stick and horrible Gnome giggle that was interwoven throughout was just too incompatible to introduce a spiritual message. The modified hymns just did not fit in at all this time, but I guess you don't care since you just want to make money off the CD.
It is time to put much more time and effort into a truly inspiring LDS comedy. Take your time, do it right. If you're not up to it, then don't bother as it only disappoints your Audience and discourages the truly gifted LDS filmmakers from trying and scares away the investors.
Cut out the slap stick and focus on situational comedy. As I said before and you didn't listen `*Every intention should be to uplift, entertain, and teach. If you are just out to capitalize off the saints, as most of your sponsors are, you will fail.*'
The first 10 minutes was absolutely hilarious. The situational comedy of counting the seconds to get out of a boring Elder's Quorum Meeting about Home Teaching that drags on and on made me laugh harder and longer than I have in a very long time. It makes me chuckle just recalling it. Kurt Hale, you earned your $5 for that one. But as soon as the movie starts spewing out one slap stick dud after another and the story becomes ridiculously and even insulting stupid and unrealistic the whole experience just gets flushed down the toilet along with the protagonist.
I thought Michael Birkeland gave a good performance, but I think we all agree that we are all getting tired of seeing the same actors from The Singles Ward get regurgitated into LDS comedic cinema. There are many talented LDS actors around and it's time to see some new faces.
The story was good intentioned but I ended up very disappointed and unsatisfied. I know it's hard to consistently come up with good material, but you have absolutely no excuse for the horrible editing job, plot holes, and obvious mistakes.
I looked up the time it takes to drive from Salt Lake to Vernal and it is indeed 3 hours one way. We know he got out of church at noon, brother Nelson came over at 12:15, it took him 18 minutes to fix the flat tire and a half hour to visit the two families. So the very earliest he could have left Salt Lake is 1 pm. If they drove strait to vernal and back they would have gotten back at 7 pm.
But way too many things happened to all fit in one day. Before they even arrived in Vernal you could tell the sun was going down, but they got back to Salt Lake as the sun was as bright as at noontime. Also why did the Cop tell them to wait till Monday to call his towing friend and then drive them all the way back? Do you understand how insulting this kind of stuff is to those who love truth?
I can only assume that the other obvious mistakes were done intentionally as some sort of bizarre inside joke. Like when they were driving back with the deer head in the car, one scene it was in the front seat, next in the back, then in the front after only 3 seconds of continuous conversation. And after the car crashed the shadow of the boom came in and out of the bottom left corner several times. If these kinds of things were intentionally put in the film it was a really bad idea as it was very distracting and made it all look very unprofessional and unfunny. Kurt you really have no excuse for missing easy things like this. The product placement advertisements weren't as obvious as they were for the RM, but still very plentiful. I guess Cream O' Weber, Ken Garff, UtahWeddings.com, Maverick, Red Bull, etc. paid you guys big bucks. Well you are going to need that money since the Box Office isn't going to turn a profit.
I saw that you tried to put in a good message at the end, but the endless slap stick and horrible Gnome giggle that was interwoven throughout was just too incompatible to introduce a spiritual message. The modified hymns just did not fit in at all this time, but I guess you don't care since you just want to make money off the CD.
It is time to put much more time and effort into a truly inspiring LDS comedy. Take your time, do it right. If you're not up to it, then don't bother as it only disappoints your Audience and discourages the truly gifted LDS filmmakers from trying and scares away the investors.
Cut out the slap stick and focus on situational comedy. As I said before and you didn't listen `*Every intention should be to uplift, entertain, and teach. If you are just out to capitalize off the saints, as most of your sponsors are, you will fail.*'