Early Postal Review: surprise, surprise, it stinks

[CptStern]

Al Qaeda raids Little Germany, a fictional theme park owned by Uwe Boll, who plays himself in the movie. He plays up any and all stereotypes about himself in the film, which would be pretty funny if it wasn't up to and including the one about how his movies are financed with Nazi gold. He pays Troyer in gold teeth. You can imagine where these are suggested to have come from.

If this all sounds funny, it is because I am a pretty funny writer. The jokes, as seen in Postal all fall flat.

Boll seems out to shock his audience into stunned disbelief rather than actually entertain them. Early in the movie, we get a long, leisurely shot of a fully nude Foley scratching his reproductive organs. [ewww - Stern] I don't want to sound like I personally was offended or shocked by anything. In fact, the only time I laughed was during the movie's opening sequence, a comedy skit in the cockpit of one of the September 11 airplanes (they're fighting over the number of virgins they get in Paradise). It was legitimately well-paced and funny. But it was followed by 90 minutes of flat jokes.

that teeth joke besides being tasteless is just stupid, Boll is completely unfunny

http://blog.wired.com/games/2007/08/having-a-boll-s.html

 

[Top Secret]

that teeth joke besides being tasteless is just stupid, Boll is completely unfunny

That joke had me laughing out loud for a solid minute.

 

[CptStern]

the fact that the currecy is jewish teeth? I thought the nazi gold thing was enough, the teeth part was just the same joke repeated another way

 

[Top Secret]

I can only retract from this that I might be a simpleton.

 

[CptStern]

ya the "joke" isnt immediately apparent ..once you realise that Boll is German, it makes it even worse

 

[-Psy-]

Sounds like another winner by the masterful director that is Uwe Bawls.