ASS BACKWARDS MOVIE
Dauntingly episodic, the movie plays like a series of sketches strung together into a feature. Whether these lifelong losers can snatch dignity from the jaws of public disgrace appears debatable, but they seem willing to take the entire pageant down with them if they can’t succeed.Ĭomedy this broad ought to be appealing on some level, and although co-writers and leads Raphael and Wilson are an experienced comedic team with admirable synergy, their screenplay just doesn’t have enough gas to go the distance. The climactic scenes at the pageant event, replaying all their worst childhood fears of failure and ridicule, is such a colossal catastrophe that it’s clear why their lives have been in a downward spiral ever since.
ASS BACKWARDS TV
An attempt to earn cash at an amateur strip night and subsequent encounter with a drug- and sex-addicted reality TV personality don’t go much better, and the women soon are parting ways, determined to go it alone in reclaiming the Neptune contest crown.
Their journey back to the town of Neptune in a beat-up van is fraught with wrong turns and breakdowns until they’re rescued by a lesbian biker who takes them back to her Sister Solstice “womyn’s” commune, where their beauty-contest aspirations are understandably unwelcome, leading to their forcible ejection at gunpoint. Naturally, it doesn’t occur to either until some time later that only one of them can come out a winner. Laurel’s going to be a celebrity judge at the upcoming 50th anniversary of their hometown beauty contest, which she ruled as a child, convincing the pair to get back into the game and reclaim the crown that they think should have been theirs all along. Chloe lip-syncs dance-pop hits as a go-go dancer in a sleazy club, while Kate gets by as an egg-donor for parents-to-be - hardly promising long-term career options.Ī chance encounter with Laurel ( Alicia Sliverstone), a former acquaintance and child beauty pageant star who’s now a successful self-help author, sends their self-confidence into a tailspin. Convinced they’re all-that, they’re in fact wildly delusional and oblivious to their lack of any viable game plan for the future. Kate ( June Diane Raphael) and Chloe ( Casey Wilson) are single ladies well into their 30s who have been best buds since grade school, which is about the humor level the film is pitched at.
Fortunately, there’s little risk of audiences wasting date money on this clunker, though some viewers might not regret a VOD rental or download. PARK CITY - Ill-advised and amateurishly executed, Ass Backwards begins with a passably funny concept and runs it into the ground within 20 minutes.
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