Depending on who you ask, Swiss Army Man — starring Daniel Radcliffe and Paul Dano — is either the greatest, most unique fart film ever in the history of cinema, or it’s an elaborate ruse, one unworthy of the hallowed halls of the Sundance Film Festival. Dano plays a man who makes nice with Radcliffe’s farting corpse character and I can’t believe I just wrote that. Also, Radcliffe’s dead character has an erection. Now, onto Twitter reactions!
SWISS ARMY MAN is the CITIZEN KANE of fart joke movies #sundance
— Jason Gorber (@filmfest_ca) January 23, 2016
Swiss Army Man: yikes. No idea how they convinced people to give them money for that one but I'm sure it will sell on star power. #sundance
— Edward Douglas (@EDouglasWW) January 23, 2016
I've seen thousands of movies and never seen anything like SWISS ARMY MAN. Insane. Crazy. Like entering a bonkers dream. Wow. #sundance
— Steven Weintraub (@colliderfrosty) January 23, 2016
Variety reports that a “continuous stream of audience members” made their way towards the exit during the film’s showing on Friday, which either says something about the quality of the film, or the age of those who can’t stand some gas gags. My gut (a pun!) tells me that it’s that latter. Pretentiousness is a quality that comes by the boatload when it comes to film critics (I used to frequent the film critique scene in New York for several years), but in no way am I trying to say that all film critics maintain an air of snobbiness — just the ones who don’t appreciate an extended fart joke.
Anyway, I haven’t seen the film. It could stink as bad as (INSERT FART JOKE HERE).
(Via Variety)
