Eye Candy #334 - "Stuntmen"

Stuntmen:  The first 2-3 minutes of this film is very promising, but once you get past that, you realize just how thin this script really is.  Two nigh-idiotic stuntmen, Eligh Supreme and Tank Macho, are both up Stuntmen of the Year.  This mockumentary delves into both stuntmen, their friends and family, and the film crew making the mockumentary.  Absolutely everyone featured in this film is an oddball like Eligh’s over-libidinous grandfather.  With several turns from familiar faces like Brandon Routh and Zachary Levi, and lots of off-the-cuff dialogue, this is one giant let-down.  I thought Alanna Ubach as producer Tovah Freiberg acquitted herself the best (she has a very exchange where she tries to get her mute, blind elderly husband to stop from touching himself).  Unfortunately she’s not in it enough to carry the whole film and it doesn‘t take long before this self-referential, Hollywood in-joke wears thin.  People making a film that pokes fun at people who make films may only be amusing to people who make films.   It’s 90 minutes feel interminable and it could have very easily been a 30 minute short. Woodchuck sez, “Almost completely disappointing.”