The FP (2011)

The FP (R) - Review

"What's a town with no ducks?"

Delightfully silly parody of the "dance off" movie genre, this ultra low budget farce makes up for its shortcomings with exuberance and dry humor.  The FP is short for Frazier Park, and is a city under control of a gang of thugs since local champion BTRO was killed by his rival L Double E a year ago.  Killed by playing BEAT BEAT REVOLUTION, a DDR clone with lethal after effects that the youths use to settle conflicts and estrablish the pecking order.  When JTRO returns to town looking to avenge his brother, he find The FP has become a shell of its former self, a town where L Double E is in control of the liqour supply, causing a shortage of food for ducks in the park.  After some montages and warm up matches, JTRO is finally able to try for revenge, and for love.

The entire movie has a dialect all its own, a sort of surburban white ebonics that is at first intentionally jarring but one soon adjusts and finds it adds to the overall fun and ambience to the film.  It takes work to enjoy this, just like all the practicing and teenaged boy sweat one must wade through to get a perfect score on DDR in an arcade, the cost of which is probably pretty close to the overall budget of the film.  Tiring, yet with warm glow of energy (and quarters) well spent.

6.5 Eyepatch Heros out of 10 (GOOD)