Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie (2012)

Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie (R) Review

"The Bonfire of the Absurdities"

Tim and Eric bring their basic cable grade bizarro comedy stylings to the bigscreen with T&EB$M, a profoundly stupid yet questionably funny film about the duo losing a billion dollars to an evil corporation that funded their movie within a movie and then who try to recoup their losses by running a derelict mall filled with degenerates and social outcasts before the evil corp takes it out on them and their mothers.  The results is a circus of depravity and truly macabre that would make any fetish convention organizer flinch with a smirk.
This isn't winking at the camera, this is rapidly flipping the bare light bulbs on an off as they chew off your firmly planted tongue in cheek. An entire film is for sure beyond the scope of their comedy M.O., they excel at short strangely produced/edited clips that repetitiously hook your brain and torture you with awkward laughter.  Not much of that carries over here (since it was a completely separate property and devoid of those licenses) except the Cable-Access TV Show/InnerCorporate Video aesthetic shines though.  There is a forecast for the possibility of chortles, chuckles and maybe even laughs but your mileage, and ability to withstand shrim, may vary.
The cast is actually filled with A-listers hamming it up to an almost unacceptable degree which does add to the fun.  The story line has been much derided in the press, but how can you point out the plot is bad when Tim and Eric's whole shtick is being able to consistently create skits feverishly "so bad its good, on purpose", one of the rarest and hardest kinds of comedy to pull off.  Somehow pulling it off is what Tim and Eric were made for.

5.5 Fish Hook No No's out of 10 (MEDIOCRE)