Well, not so sure what the title refers to, other than the tattoo one character has on their buttocks.
No, wait, just checked an online reference. It’s a hat tip to a little-known film about a stuntman who tried to jump a mile-wide river between Canadia and the US of A. Which figures, considering the attempt to jump the Cook Strait. On a bicycle.
This is one of those films you’ll love to have a laugh at. Full of bogans, booze and boobs, it’s the kind of slapstick humour you’d always need to see on New Zealand screens. Irreverent, slightly crazy, and blokey as all hell.
But, just quietly wondering? Have the Back of the Y guys jumped the shark? Not so sure they haven’t. Where else do you go with stunt-based humour after this one?
24 October, 2007 at 8:32 pm
Oh, hey, I’ve seen “The Devil At Your Heels”. It was in the Incredible Film Fest in 2001. It was utterly suspenseful and compelling.
I haven’t seen “The Devil Dared Me To”, but a friend of mine has and he noted that all the women in the film die, which gives the film a slightly misogynistic tinge to it if you get all film studies on its ass. Hm.
25 October, 2007 at 5:53 am
there is that. and i believe 2/3 of them are also disfigured before their deaths, but remain sexy.
where to go with that, i dunno.
25 October, 2007 at 7:03 am
Disfiguring the feminine, come on, you don’t know about that motif in American cinema?
25 October, 2007 at 11:45 am
As a non-Kiwi I found it pretty hilarious, although the squeamish bit of me was cringing frequently. At the injuries rather than the acting.
Regardless of motifs, the question du jour in all situations is now, ‘What would Randy Campbell do?’