Cecil B. DeMented - Ah, John Waters. He either creates horrifying movies you can never bleach out of your retinas, or he makes a nutty little alternate universe that's great to check out once in a while. After being called a "cinematic terrorist" one too many times, Waters decided to take that concept literally, putting Stephen Dorff as the title character, leading a cabal of malcontents on a crusade to punish bad cinema like Roland Emmerich's crimes against art. Something we all often wish we could do.
Detroit Rock City - I have no idea why more people don't love this movie. Four 70s rock dudes struggling to find a way to get from Cleveland to Detroit in order to check out a KISS concert, and having ridiculous, testosterone-fueled and amusing adventures along the way. It's all about the original rock 'n' roll spirit, man! James DeBello is particularly amusing as the rockin'est rock dude who calls himself Dr. Love.
Pumpkin - It starts out as a standard upper-crust satire with a John Waters">John Waters/Tim Burton/We'll-Let-You-Know-When-You're-Taking-Things-Too-Seriously sort of feel to it, but as sorority girl Carolyn {Christina Ricci) slowly starts to fall in love with here mentally-challenged charge Pumpkin, the film begins to ratchet up the twisted dark comedy as her downward spiral deepens. Sam Ball in particular rides that weird line between realistic depth and bombastic caricature well as Carolyn's bullying boyfriend, and the ridiculous conclusion of his character arc completely makes the movie.
Pootie Tang: Chris Rock's HBO series spin-off, which looks like it was shot on a budget of $79.95, gives us Pootie Tang (Lance Crouther), a world-wide gibberish-spouting celebrity superhero who smacks people around with his belt, and whose adventures are amusingly narrated by J.B. Smoove. Rock plays three roles and Reg E. Cathey's Dirty Dee is completely ridiculous. It's disjointed, ridiculous, random, stupid, goofy, awkward and funny. Perhaps chemical influence of some sort will add to your enjoyment. Sa da tay!
Run Ronnie Run!: A troubled production journey caused David Cross and Bob Odenkirk to disavow this movie, but even with awkward editing and their lack of input into the final cut, there's still a lot of raw funny in this flick. Ronnie Dobbs is one of those crazy rednecks that people watch Cops to point and laugh at, and he becomes a big-time celebrity. A Mr. Show character taken as far as he can go, there's plenty of insane turns and loony satire to make it worth checking out. Even so, I bet Bob and David are currently laughing about the fate of New Line Cinema, who screwed them over with this film.
