Review of Ass Backwards (2013) by Stevie J — 24 Nov 2013

This despicably unfunny comedy was written by its two stars -- June Diane Raphael and Casey Wilson -- who are longtime best friends in real life and who also play them in Ass Backwards. Kate (Raphael - Bride Wars) and Chloe (Casey Wilson - 'Happy Endings') live in a delusional reality of their own making as they are living it up in the big city believing themselves to have made it as highly successful adults.

Kate is the CEO of her own company ... a one woman (her) egg donor service and Chloe is a "dancer" at a nightclub in which she is paid to dance in a box. Perhaps these two women are supposed to be admired because of their adversity .

.. but they are so delusional they are more tragic than anything else. When the girls get a letter in the mail reminding them of their childhood dream of being a beauty queen in a hometown pageant, the girls race cross-country to enter it anew as adults in hopes of showing the town what it had been missing with Kate and Chloe away in the big city.

Their one-time rival Laurel (Alicia Silverstone - Clueless) wishes them a snarky good luck and the two are convinced they are winners ... not really realizing only one person can win (and it definitely will NOT be either of them .

.. duh). The characters the girls meet on the road are supposed to be funny ... but they are actually even more tragic. Vincent D'Onofrio (Men in Black) plays one of their fathers ... and the scene is heartbreaking instead of hilarious as they are all sad individuals who simply have NO idea.

It is an uncomfortable comedy ... and an unpleasant one as well. They want us to laugh at pathetic, sad and depressing situations which truly aren't funny ... which means they have named their movie perfectly.

Kate and Chloe have got nothin' on Romy and Michelle.