Review of The Sasquatch Gang (2006) by Devon B — 22 Sep 2008

An indie movie that could almost be a sequel to "Napoleon Dynamite" (it even features Jon "Napoleon" Heder and Jon "Uncle Rico" Gries in it) only these nerds make Napoleon look like Billy Dee Williams.

These are uber-nerds. NERDS in ALLCAPS because that's just how incredibly nerdy they are. These are nerds who have sword fights on their front lawn with giant foam rubber swords they made (whilst playing "Lord of the Rings"-type fairy music on a boombox in the background).

Head nerd Gavin runs a bootleg video rental service out of his bedroom. Hobie is the big fat nerd (you always need at least one), and Maynard is the "small for his age" blonde kid that looks up to the bigger nerds.

Their nerd world is populated by bullies. Bullies like "Zerk Wilde" (hilariously played by Justin Long), a mullet-headed whitetrash dumbbell and his friend, "Shirts" (who ironically, never wears a shirt).

Another bully is Shane (Michael Mitchell). Shane is the prototypical bully who's never without his two stooge-like henchmen. One day, the NERDS find sasquatch tracks (and a giant sasquatch turd) while looking for arrow heads in the woods.

Bully Shane tells Gavin he didn't find any Sasquatch tracks (or turd) and bets him his chinese throwing star for Gavin's video collection that he didn't. Meanwhile, Zerk owes $1400 to a credit card company ($5 of which came from a fastfood purchase he made in 1999, the other $1395 is in interest), so he tries to raise the money through several bone-headed schemes.

All the characters interact in the final reel ("Pulp Fiction"-style, in fact, this movie is edited much like Pulp Fiction, all the scenes are out of order), and Carl Weathers even makes a special appearance as the Bigfoot expert, "Dr.

Artimus Snodgrass". Besides the Carl Weathers cameo, this movie heavily features laser tag, dirt bikes and corndogs. This is quite an unusual, painfully funny movie (the pain coming from childhood memories of being an uber-nerd, I guess), and it might even go down as a cult classic one day.

Just like Napoleon Dynamite.