Review: ‘Miss March’

I’m about to open myself up to mounds of ridicule for this review but I say bring it on. Miss March currently has a 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and you will probably have a lot of trouble finding a single review giving it more than 1 star. Until now.

It’s safe to say that I did not have high expectations upon entering the theater. The trailers made this film look like a dumb unfunny teen sex comedy that, like most films of that genre, seemed to miss the mark. But I was pleasantly surprised to find myself laughing quite a few times. I was even more surprised that I was one of the only people in the theater enjoying the film. While leaving, I overheard the people in front of me say they could not believe they used to think Zach Creggor and Trevor Moore were funny when they knew them in college.

Zach Cregger and Trevor Moore wrote and directed Miss March. They also star as Eugene and Tucker who go on a road trip to break in to the Playboy mansion so that Eugene can be reunited with his high school sweetheart who is now a Playmate. They are probably best known as two of the five members of the sketch comedy group “The Whitest Kids U’ Know.† I know the last time you heard about a movie being made by 2 of the 5 writers of something already known/funny we got Date Movie but I don’t think that’s the case with this film. However, in some reviews I read for Miss March, Friedberg and Seltzer’s names did come up. I think this is mainly because of the randomness of the humor. Some jokes have a long buildup but there are some gags that seem to come out of nowhere. A few of them are even explained afterwards so they make sense. And others are reused until they are beaten down by a bat. These are normally strikes against a film, as anyone subjected to the horrors of Epic Date Disaster Movie can tell you, but I found myself laughing a lot.

The film does have some flaws. Most of these flaws can be attributed to Zach and Trevor’s sketch comedy background. They are not actors; they are comedians playing roles. As a result, the acting is over the top and sometimes lacking in emotion but I find that completely forgivable in a comedy like this. There are also some jokes that take a little long to develop. Since I had never watched “The Whitest Kids U’ Know† before, I decided to check a few sketches out when I got home from the screening. I went to the best place to find copyrighted material for free, Youtube. I watched 20 or so sketches and the results were mixed. Some were very funny and a few dragged on without so much as a chuckle. I did notice that just like the film, the humor is very odd, ridiculous, often gross, very crude and not at all PC.

I would say that anyone who is a fan of their show or that type of sketch comedy will most likely enjoy this film. If you are looking for an Apatow/Smith bromance between the two leads and a film that has as much heart as it does laughs, than this movie is not for you. If you want to see a movie where the main character defecates all over himself (several times) after waking from a coma or hear Craig Robinson sing “Suck my d*** while I F*** you in the A**† then see this film.

[Rating: 3.75 bunnies out of 5]

Jerry Cavallaro – www.AreYouStuckLikeChuck.com