Not like I was expecting too much but this is definitely one to catch on streaming. It might be better served.
Where to start. Well, there’s homeless people melting but not in creative ways. Mostly, you’ll see someone with clumpy latex already on. They will get gassed. Goo will flow. Bladders on their head and neck will bullfrog up. They’ll claw their face off, have their legs buckle, tear off limbs and clumps inadvertently, and spurt. There’s a few that mix it up a little that are kind of fun.
Viper is now a gas cooked up by an evil, elitist mayor’s scientist. It’s in South Africa not New York and it’s a Troma-y dystopian city. The main characters mostly provide a barrage of bits. Maybe 1 in 10 lands. There are several runners that the movie feels the need to remind you of constantly so you can have some semblance of a payoff. There’s a robot drone, muddled action, characters that flail to be charming, and some deep eye rolls to be had.
Biggest problem is how slow it moves. Where Fried Barry was at least propulsive, this dicks around. Drink or smoke yourself onto its level and you might get more out of the comedic retelling of Disney movie plots or the horny puppet hallucination. On paper, it sounds fun but it’s poorly executed. This wants to be anarchic but it’s not really provocative. A little more viscerally gross than the original but the repetition and fumbling take that away.
First time going to the New Bev, though, so I got that out of it.
Not like I was expecting too much but this is definitely one to catch on streaming. It might be better served.
Where to start. Well, there’s homeless people melting but not in creative ways. Mostly, you’ll see someone with clumpy latex already on. They will get gassed. Goo will flow. Bladders on their head and neck will bullfrog up. They’ll claw their face off, have their legs buckle, tear off limbs and clumps inadvertently, and spurt. There’s a few that mix it up a little that are kind of fun.
Viper is now a gas cooked up by an evil, elitist mayor’s scientist. It’s in South Africa not New York and it’s a Troma-y dystopian city. The main characters mostly provide a barrage of bits. Maybe 1 in 10 lands. There are several runners that the movie feels the need to remind you of constantly so you can have some semblance of a payoff. There’s a robot drone, muddled action, characters that flail to be charming, and some deep eye rolls to be had.
Biggest problem is how slow it moves. Where Fried Barry was at least propulsive, this dicks around. Drink or smoke yourself onto its level and you might get more out of the comedic retelling of Disney movie plots or the horny puppet hallucination. On paper, it sounds fun but it’s poorly executed. This wants to be anarchic but it’s not really provocative. A little more viscerally gross than the original but the repetition and fumbling take that away.
First time going to the New Bev, though, so I got that out of it.
