Eye Candy #476 - "The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia"

The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia:  Johnny Knoxville produced this latest chapter in the continuing saga of Jesco White, “mountain dancer” and general ne’er-do-well from Boone County, West Virginia.  This film showcases more of Jesco’s fantastic hillbilly relatives (he is one of at least 13 children) and their spawn.  Some are dead.  Some are incarcerated.    Sadly some of the relatives featured in the “Dancing Outlaw” have shuffled off this mortal coil (for example, Jesco’s brother Dorsey shot himself on accident…in the head; his wife Norma Jean passed away in 2008).   We get to watch his family snort coke together, smoke out together, get out of prison, it’s like “Ozzie and Harriet”, if Ozzie and Harriet smoked crack with David and Ricky.  Those family members featured are violent, crude, just generation after generation of failures congregating in Boone County, West Virginia (to be fair, not all members of the clan have been showcased;  the hope is that some of them are normal).  They all seem to have spent more time at the tattoo parlor than the dentist.  We do get to meet Poney, Jesco’s brother that moved to Minnesota and whose family wants nothing to do with Boone County.  Watching this film is like watching an 88 minute car wreck.  And while some of the bits are funny, it’s not as funny as the original and most of the Whites are devoid of the charm that Jesco has (and he still thinks he‘s Elvis sometimes, so that‘s nice).   As Jesco says, “Some families jes’ cain’t get it together.“  Woodchuck sez, “Worth a look.”