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July 31, 2006

More late Comicon blogging

I know, I know. But I think maybe some of this will be new stuff.

The guys from RENO 911 showed up twice, once in-character for the RENO 911: MIAMI movie, and then out-of-character for their movie BALLS OF FURY, which is a parody of Jean-Claude Van Damme martial arts movies with ping-pong instead of kickboxing.

The Reno 911 trailer is a beat-for-beat parody of the Miami Vice movie trailer, which was great fun to see two weeks before that movie had opened, but they need to hurry it out to the public now if they don't want the joke to get old. Clips included one where the gang have trouble operating an airport x-ray machine, and another one where the female cop is being taught Miami-style slang by her black partner, ending with her going too far by calling her partner "nigger." I can't really do it justice in describing it here, but the cast, in character, went on about how "fucking libelous" the "documentary" is, and how it was part of a Jewish conspiracy.

For BALLS OF FURY, the guys aren't the stars of the movie, but have cameos. The villainous Eastern crime lord who puts on the underground ping-pong tournament is played by Christopher Walken, and they showed a scene where he offers the hero a chance to sample his harem of sex slaves. After much moral debate, the hero agrees, and they all turn out to be men.

There was the usual Q&A from the audience. One guy asked if they'd sign his BALLS OF FURY underwear, to which they responded that they'd only do it if he was wearing them, so he put them on over his pants, and the deed was done. Another of the questioners angrily wanted to know how dare they mock the serious athleticism of ping-pong. He was clearly a plant -- the guys came down off the stage and started beating the crap out of him, then chased him all around the hall. Security didn't seem to get the joke, as all three were escorted out.

Maybe The State was funnier than I remember. I still don't find Michael Showalter funny, though.

A clip shown from the BORAT movie made me think that we'll never see its like again. Consider that the movie in large part involves Sacha Baron Cohen doing stuff in character in front of unsuspecting real people. Now, let's talk about the clip:

Borat is naked in a hotel bathtub. He gets out of the tub to find his fat producer on the bed, also naked, masturbating to a magazine picture of Pamela Anderson. Enraged, because he wants Pam to only be his spank fantasy, Borat starts fighting the guy, and in the process they end up in every compromising position you can imagine, including one where the fat guy starts yelling "Eat my ass!" There's a vertical black bar over Borat's penis to make it look bigger than it is, but everything else is shown.

Then the fight breaks out into the hotel corridor, with both men still naked, and Borat somehow wielding a dildo with a rubber hand on the end of it as a weapon. They go into a crowded elevator and stand still as various uncomfortable folks in there with them gradually exit. Then the fight continues anew, finally spilling into a massive business conference in the hotel's main hall, with the two breaking tables as they knock each other down, before getting taken out by unamused security.

I couldn't believe this would be in an MPAA rated movie, let alone shown before a family audience. I wonder if Comicon people will be more diligent about screening stuff in the future. Not that I mind, but I suspect many parents might.

more to come, including Wicker Man, Happy Feet, The Grudge 2, and The Tripper...

Posted by LYT at July 31, 2006 6:02 PM [Message Board]

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