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'Poop' Movie Disappoints
Connecticut-Based Movie Flops On DVD, Even With Locals
Stephen Ortiz
Issue date: 3/18/08 Section: Focus
First off, do not buy "The American Poop Movie." Don't rent it, don't download it and if by some chance someone gives it to you as some sort of gift, be offended and punch them in the face.
If that doesn't say enough to you about how terrible this film is, then read on and prepare to be convinced - this is a bad movie.
Now you must be thinking, "There's got to be some sort of saving grace, it can't all be entirely terrible." Well there isn't. Almost. Before the title was changed, this was "The Connecticut Poop Movie" because, obviously enough, the movie takes place in state. The director and writer of the film, Joe Kingsley, is a UConn alum and used his experiences at the university as the basis for his film, so much so that he also used shots of the university in the movie. The film sports brief footage of Towers and Northwest residence halls and also Mirror Lake.
The movie also briefly features the "See Sammy" Girl, Kirsten Babich, probably the only reason why this reviewer sat through this. Looking back, her five lines really weren't worth it.
"The American Poop Movie" revolves around Russ (Ross Kidder) who is a graduate from Connecticut University, or Conn. U. as it's referenced to (see what they did there), who worked for the student channel Conn. U. TV (again), and after graduation is left hoping to join the major broadcast channel CSB (sigh). Oh, and it references to the student newspaper, the Campus Daily. Beyond that, there's not much else to the movie. The plot is a tired cliché of boy-trying-to-get-back-with-an-old-love-and-at-the-same-time-trying-to-find-his-place-in-the-world.
The jokes are immature, and not even in a good way most college students looking for dumb laughs would enjoy, but in the tasteless, unnecessary way. In one scene, after a night of partying, Russ awakens in a jail cell. He and the police officer talk about how he's hit rock bottom, and just before he's released, the officer grabs Russ' crotch and says, "Remember, rock bottom."
If that doesn't say enough to you about how terrible this film is, then read on and prepare to be convinced - this is a bad movie.
Now you must be thinking, "There's got to be some sort of saving grace, it can't all be entirely terrible." Well there isn't. Almost. Before the title was changed, this was "The Connecticut Poop Movie" because, obviously enough, the movie takes place in state. The director and writer of the film, Joe Kingsley, is a UConn alum and used his experiences at the university as the basis for his film, so much so that he also used shots of the university in the movie. The film sports brief footage of Towers and Northwest residence halls and also Mirror Lake.
The movie also briefly features the "See Sammy" Girl, Kirsten Babich, probably the only reason why this reviewer sat through this. Looking back, her five lines really weren't worth it.
"The American Poop Movie" revolves around Russ (Ross Kidder) who is a graduate from Connecticut University, or Conn. U. as it's referenced to (see what they did there), who worked for the student channel Conn. U. TV (again), and after graduation is left hoping to join the major broadcast channel CSB (sigh). Oh, and it references to the student newspaper, the Campus Daily. Beyond that, there's not much else to the movie. The plot is a tired cliché of boy-trying-to-get-back-with-an-old-love-and-at-the-same-time-trying-to-find-his-place-in-the-world.
The jokes are immature, and not even in a good way most college students looking for dumb laughs would enjoy, but in the tasteless, unnecessary way. In one scene, after a night of partying, Russ awakens in a jail cell. He and the police officer talk about how he's hit rock bottom, and just before he's released, the officer grabs Russ' crotch and says, "Remember, rock bottom."
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