Saccharine surreal suburb slam.
Surreal is not quite the right word: the humor is split between both non sequiturs and jagged barbs to pierce the middle class bubble world. The DVD included a 16 minute low-budget original short which might be more preferable for folks are deterred by the absurd. I enjoyed the expanded version, but definitely not for everyone.
The short shows a firm skeleton that is fleshed out here, both include a crucial metamorphosis and the competitive friendships of the soccer mom set. The braces shown in the poster help establish a weird uniformity in the community, Stepford Wives in a Peewee's Playhouse world where Bob from Twin Peaks might have spent time as a child. The braces also just seemed to make every smile hurt.
There feels like a lot going on here, and the writing and re-writing per an interview I just listened to....a 21-gun page-one-redraft salute by the two stars/writers/directors who share this film as their baby. Swimming pool water becomes magical, phrases get spun back upon themselves, no guns but plenty of knives.
Films like this bend the connections between uneasy insight and humor, in terms of which provokes which....while I think they intended the humor to provoke deeper uneasiness, I think it went the other way.
Anyways, the leads are talented....I agree with a lot of other reference points mentioned by reviewers here, did someone bring up Miranda July? Or more of a stretch if Carole Burnett were young today. Shake and bake in fake commercials a la Kentucky Fried Movie - Bouquets to Bald Men?!?!? Maybe leftovers from their Upright Citizens Brigade?
One last note, I wonder which of the two, Jocelyn and Dawn will be first to have a pet dog as a proto-child, that they throw a birthday party for?
Surreal is not quite the right word: the humor is split between both non sequiturs and jagged barbs to pierce the middle class bubble world. The DVD included a 16 minute low-budget original short which might be more preferable for folks are deterred by the absurd. I enjoyed the expanded version, but definitely not for everyone.
The short shows a firm skeleton that is fleshed out here, both include a crucial metamorphosis and the competitive friendships of the soccer mom set. The braces shown in the poster help establish a weird uniformity in the community, Stepford Wives in a Peewee's Playhouse world where Bob from Twin Peaks might have spent time as a child. The braces also just seemed to make every smile hurt.
There feels like a lot going on here, and the writing and re-writing per an interview I just listened to....a 21-gun page-one-redraft salute by the two stars/writers/directors who share this film as their baby. Swimming pool water becomes magical, phrases get spun back upon themselves, no guns but plenty of knives.
Films like this bend the connections between uneasy insight and humor, in terms of which provokes which....while I think they intended the humor to provoke deeper uneasiness, I think it went the other way.
Anyways, the leads are talented....I agree with a lot of other reference points mentioned by reviewers here, did someone bring up Miranda July? Or more of a stretch if Carole Burnett were young today. Shake and bake in fake commercials a la Kentucky Fried Movie - Bouquets to Bald Men?!?!? Maybe leftovers from their Upright Citizens Brigade?
One last note, I wonder which of the two, Jocelyn and Dawn will be first to have a pet dog as a proto-child, that they throw a birthday party for?