I like Seth Green. Have ever since
Austin Powers, and it was a factor in my seeing this otherwise throw-away
slasher spoof. I was not expecting much, but it was a funny film at times, and
the other six people at the 5 o'clock Saturday show seemed to like it. Seth was
his buffy-like self.
The downside is that Idle
Hands shows a lot of drug use (marijuana is a drug) and the
consequences (demon possession, havoc, murder, decapitation, slashings,
fannings, crotchings, earrings(?), truckings, scratchings, amputations,
bongings, and scalpings) don't seem to be too great a price to pay as long as
you get to watch repetitively mindless butt-grinding music videos (where is
Tipper Gore when you need her?):
"My dream life would be to lie
around all day in bed and watch TV while some hot broad brings me food."
Enter the druidic priestess (Vivica A. Fox) with a sure
cure, the hunky mechanic ( "Breakdown's"
Jack
Noseworthy) for(d) ritualistic sex, and the back-from-the-dead
side-kicked-its and the film suddenly takes on an other dimension. Makes me
think of Rock and Roll High School and other cult films. That's all. No deep
analysis.
