Review of Game Over, Man! (2018) by Elseano89 — 02 Apr 2018

You can't really go into this expecting it to be anything especially fantastic or life changing. This is basically a Workaholics episode with a much bigger budget. Not even good Workaholics either I'm talking about the late seasons of Workaholics when it seemed like they ran out of ideas. If you were a fan of the show you'll probably get a decent amount of enjoyment out of this. I didn't particularly mind it but I'd be wrong to sit here and try and pretend it's good. The concept of Blake Anderson playing a closeted gay guy is something they also played with in the show and using it again in this movie felt really tacked on and...just odd. Also the supporting cast around the guys was pretty weak and forgettable. It was basically like they saved all the jokes for the 3 guys and everybody else was furniture.

Commenting on the gore, drugs and juvenile humor is all but admitting that you don't know what the Mail Order Comedy guys are basically about. None of this is anything new from them with the exception of some graphic gore. The analingus scene was already done probably more controversially in the show when Anders had the same thing done to him by a dog.

Therein lies my issue with this though, even as a fan. It doesn't offer anything new and doesn't even offer, in my opinion, the best of what they offer as a trio. Early on Workaholics was crass and immature but it had some genuinely funny dialogue and back and forth between the guys. Now it just seems like they're running out of things to say to one another. Seeing as how the show went probably 2 seasons too long it isn't a great surprise.

All told I can't really say that this was a good movie but nor would I call it offensively bad. I sat through it and enjoyed moments because I'm a fan of their other work and enjoy the group dynamic they have together. But this is a small offering of what they do well, the rest falls quite flat. This is sadly endemic of the way they have been going as a group for quite a few years now, they've pretty much pushed this whole "three wacky guys" idea about as far as they can take it. I held some hope they'd maybe turn a bit of a new leaf here or that being allowed to work on a different project might bring back some of the good stuff they used to create but sadly not.