Weirdsville

Yeah, I just finished this Canandian junkie movie. It's nothing compared to "Trainspotting", still watchable though. It has a few of its hilarious moments, and you will never get too bored to finish the movie. If you watched the America Pie 6, you shall find the funny midget actor in the "doggie-style-the-sheep" scene also generates a load of laughters in here.

Below is a review randomly chosen by me, take a look if you are interested.

Weirdsville
(out of 4)

Starring Scott Speedman and

Wes Bentley. Directed by Allan Moyle. 90 minutes. At the Scotiabank. 14A




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You don't have to be stoned to watch Allan Moyle's latest small-town escapade, but it might help.

He packs dwarves, Satanists, a miraculous hooker and a man with an icicle in his head into this wildly uneven comedy of two heavily inhaling buddies who must do the dirty deeds of a drug dealer. The only thing missing are straight laughs.

Slacker pals Dexter (Scott Speedman) and Royce (Wes Bentley) live in the mythical Northern Ontario town of Weedsville, its town sign defaced by punning vandals.

"You know what your problem is?" hooker pal Mattie (Taryn Manning) tells Dex and Royce. "You have no ambition."

That's about to change – involuntarily. When Mattie succumbs to a lethal dose of drugs that Dex and Royce were supposed to be handling for the kneecapping local pusher (Raoul Bhaneja), our hoser heroes are stuck with disposing of her body and coming up with $1,700 for the missing drugs.

An attempt to bury Mattie in a shuttered drive-in leads to an encounter with preppie Satanists, led by Greg Bryk and Maggie Castle, and that's for starters. Before the night is out, Dex and Royce will have met enough freaks to start their own circus.

The macabre nature of the proceedings is at odds with the attempts at buddy-picture humour. Moyle compares Weirdsville to the films of Danny Boyle – think Trainspotting and Shallow Grave – but neither he nor scripter Willem Wennekers are up to that level of black comedy.

Better Moyle had stuck to the more gentle type of humour he excels at, as seen in New Waterford Girl, his 1999 festival hit. It had a talented Canadian cast and a tale of far more resonance than this shaggy bong story.