Review of The Underground Comedy Movie (1999) by Michael C — 21 Mar 2006

The Underground Comedy Movie.

Starring: Vince Offer, Gena Lee Nolin and Michael Clarke Duncan.

Director: Vince Offer.

Sketch comedy is hard. The comedians that made up the Monte Python's Flying Circus group mastered it, as did a rare few of the "Saturday Night Live" ensambles over the many years. For the most part, everyone else is hit and miss when it comes to creating funny, short comedy bits. And, unfortunately for viewers, the creators of "The Underground Comedy Movie" serve up mostly misses.

Many of the sketches in this film have a seed of Funny at their heart, but they are too drawn out and too repetative to really let that Funny fully emerge. "The Adventures of Dickman" and "The Watts Up Talk Show" are the only sketches that are short and sweet enough to be amusing. Others, which started pretty funny--such as "The Gay Virgin" and "Batman vs. Rhymer" drag on and get repetative to the point where the Fast Forward Button is a blessing.

I'm giving this film a generous rating of Two Tomatoes, because ""The Adventures of Dickman" and "The Watts Up Talk Show" truly were funny. But everything else was too dumb or too belabored to be even close to working.