Eye Candy 376 - "The Slammin' Salmon"

The Slammin’ Salmon:  Whoever said this was the best Broken Lizard film yet has apparently never seen just about anything else they’ve done.  This is a middling effort at best, almost a complete waste of time at worst.  The film is about one night in the life of a trendy Miami restaurant, The Slammin’ Salmon, owned by ex-boxer and all around nincompoop Cleon “Slammin’” Salmon (played by Michael Clarke Duncan; think George Foreman here, but belligerent).   He’s run up a debt to some yakuza, and needs the restaurant to clear $20k for the night to appease them. The Broken Lizards gang are all waiters who have to help the restaurant reach that goal, over-selling food and alcohol all the way while dealing with various foibles like horrible burns, lousy customers, while some of them are drunk, stoned, or off their meds.  Not anywhere near as entertaining as either “Super Troopers” or “Beerfest”, with the laughs coming few and far between.  Feels almost more like one of those cheap “American Pie” or “National Lampoon” films.  Woodchuck sez, “Skip it.”