Review of Heckler (2007) by Julio S — 07 Jan 2013

Heckler starts interestingly enough with how comedians react to hecklers and the unique situations they can create. But it's only good for the first 25-26 minutes. It makes the problematic, broad,unimaginative and ultimately wrong assumption that criticism in all forms trickles down to the argument of "Haters gonna hate". If Heckler showed me anything is that comedians seem to be the most talented people to quickly speak about anything they so desire, but lack maturity to own up to any sort of criticism. When your movie begins with Joe Rogan proclaiming that the #1 rule of hecklers is that they are all "100% douche bags" then I think the filmmakers here have already lost me and others. It's a movie about, unfortunately, cry babies.

If we can mercilessly destroy books, dismantle movies and cleave songs in two with very little controversy or argument of "trolling" then why are comedians exempt from this? It ponders that criticism in all ways is somewhat illegitimate, at least from what I gathered. If that is what the thrusting point of this is then I can't agree, not even if my favorite comics appear to say so. I think there are some valid points that are presented but as it stands, this movie, is a whole lot of nothing. (Kennedy's career included).