Every week, the DVD-through-the-mail site Netflix announces new DVDs for rental. Most are films that never got a theatrical release. Ethan Kaye brings you This Week In Netflix, the most inexplicable actual description of an actual film actually posted by the Netflix staff.
This week?
Superbadazz
In an effort to up their cash flow, desperate friends Rodney and Leon open an illegal strip club in Rodney’s parents’ basement. But the boys’ business venture gets off to a shaky start when the girls they hire turn out to be less than perfect. Of course, the fact that Rodney’s parents have no idea that their home is doubling as a house of ill repute only adds to the shenanigans. Shaun May, Randy Clark and Michael Harris co-star.
That’s…not a bad plot. I’m man enough to admit, that’s not a bad plot for a movie. I dislike the use of the word “shenanigans,” but a secret strip club in a basement doesn’t seem to be tremendously awful.
However, the trailer for “Superbadazz” (not to be confused with “Superbad”, a movie that got a theatrical release) is available on the ol’ internets. I give it to you here:
Or here, if your browser doesn’t pop a youtube window up.
From the trailer, it looks less like a strip club and more like, well, sex slavery. If someone invited me to this club I would assume that I would:
a) have my skin end up as someone’s coat
b) get to kill one of the girls as a souvenir
c) be roped into dog fighting
d) contract three different staph infections
e) encounter a foster kid in a cage
The “less than perfect” girls are supposed to be the big laugh attraction, but come off as rather mean-spirited. One’s blind. One’s deaf. One has to talk with a voicebox because she has a hole in her throat. I didn’t laugh at them, I just felt bad. And this was just from the trailer, I haven’t seen the film. And if there is a God, I never will.
But hey, thumbs on the idea of having an unlicensed, illegal strip club full of desperate handicapped people in your filthy basement. That’s comedy gold.
His name… his name is McPencillin
Comment by Esbat — August 5, 2008 #