Rob Schneider, Adam Sandler and Pauly Shore made a profitable career of playing the fool. Unfortunately I must confess to having helped their careers over the years, for their mentally challenged stock jokes rehashed in slightly different situations have made them a firm favourite of my younger brother.
This means that in recent years his Christmas and birthday presents have consisted of 'Bio-dome', 'Airheads', 'The Hot Chick', 'California Man', 'Blackball', 'The Waterboy', and now 'Orgazmo.'
Other than Pauly Shore's annoying voice, 'Bio-dome' and 'California Man' are surprisingly good, if you can stomach prolonged early 1990s pot-dazed slacker humour. The latter co-stars Brendan Fraser as the resurrected caveman in the title role, as well as playing Chazz (Chester) Darvey in 'Airheads', a film which demonstrates that in order to be successful in the music industry you should should take multiple hostages.
'Blackball' was about the exciting world of British bowling, and was part funded by the now defunct Film Four organisation. Film Four also financially asssisted the Czech language 'Little Otik', a film about a couple who adopt a man-eating tree stump baby.
It was not a high point of British cinema by a long shot, whilst simultaniously being infinitely preferable than Bridget Jones style comedy romance.
Rob Schneider has a well-deserved reputation for starring in films about a man who accidently becomes a carrot/dog/schoolgirl/other funny transformation and then has wacky adventurers which are somehow resolved and have a loose moral message in the last 15 minutes. His films also tend to be highly annoying and amazingly vacant, but on the up side they are very cheap to buy.
Despite inital reservations about exposing Beavis to this amount of toilet humour and an overdose of unrealistic apirations that largely involve 94 minutes of wacky adventures resulting in an unfeasably happy ending; Beavis has turned out totally grounded - he is now in Wales playing Ultimate Frisbee for the next three years.
Until 'Orgazmo' entered into the equation, all the films that Beavis wanted had broadly been suitable for most audiences. The prospect of a comedy about a Mormon actively engaging in porno films in the guise of Captain Orgazmo was fairly offputting to start with, but with the addition of a horrifically obese woman, it just became plain nasty.
'Orgasmo' is wrapped and under the tree ready for Beavis' viewing delight Christmas morning. I am just very glad I am not planning on being around to see him open in in front of his mother.
