i must have seen a different film!!

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

and people who write long reviews try to analysis this movie. ************************************************************** people with old fart syndrome who's feed up with all the BS on mass media might find this movie amusing... f*** this...the minimum length for reviews is 5 lines of text.

Fran a middle aged man is diagnosed with a brain tumor . Becoming increasingly frustrated at popular culture he decides to hit back at society Fed up with a world where heroes are defined as people with their own reality TV show and Twitter accounts are more important than real life ? Yeah me too. So not only should GBA be right up our street but should be knocking on our door as well. The disappointing thing is that I haven't seen a film recently with such a premise that it genuinely promises to talk to me then proceeds to blow everything in a short period of time !!!!! SPOILERS !!!! From the get go you can see the point director/screenwriter Bobcat Goldthwait is making . Just in case you don't the narrative spends much more time than it needs to spelling things out. The media insist on making stars out of nobodies . Yes we know . Yes I understand . Can you please change the record now , we get it . Yes please get on the story please. Please. There then follows a scene which is blackly comical and quite shocking in equal measure . I was in two minds about this . One is how are you going to follow this up for another 90 minutes ? The other thought I had was this is really a dream sequence. Guess what one turns out to be true ? At several points in the movie I constantly asked myself if the entire story is a dream sequence due to some staggering ill thought out plotting. Frank teams up with a 16 year old sociopath girl called Roxy after killing teenage reality star Chloe. They then kill Chloe's parents. However there is a significant time gap between the two incidents where the parents are unaware of their child's death which doesn't make any sense . Wouldn't the school immediately contact the parents ? Wouldn't the police turn up at the doorstep to break the news ? Yes they would but the screenplay is littered with such clumsy ill thought out writing such as Roxy going back to her parents claiming she was kidnapped while the story forgets that there are witnesses to her crimes . In reality both her and Frank would be fugitives if this all happened in real life. The film constantly does this ignoring common sense as to what has happened before This is a pity because as I stated earlier in the comment this is a film that wants to say something to its audience about shallow popular culture and is a really great premise. This is all ruined by dreadful writing which totally dilutes the scathing blackly comical elements. So much so one wonders if Goldthwait is worried the film would destroy his career in much the same way as NATURAL BORN KILLERS destroyed Oliver Stone's reputation. As it stands the GBA has backfired anyway

Frank Murdoch (Joel Murray) is tired of the crass popular culture. His ex-wife Alison is remarried and moved out of town with their daughter Ava. He gets fired from his job and told that he has brain cancer. He watches a reality show of spoiled entitled teen Chloe and sees her influence on his daughter. He kills Chloe which impresses smart-mouthed teen Roxy (Tara Lynne Barr). She talks him out of suicide and they go off on a killing spree.Bobcat Goldthwait delivers a scathing diatribe against the modern popular culture. It is unrelenting but it's not done in a funny manner. It's a satire that is too close for comfort and ends up not being that funny. Murray is a sad sack everyman. The girl has plenty of sass. The elements are there but I'm not laughing.

Not bad, but felt too self congratulatory and pretentious at times and the characters become unlikeable towards half the movie.-The monologues from the main guy are pretentious -The girl becomes unberable towards the end. But the message is still great and the TV reality spoofs are hilariousThe movie could have been amazing for me if they just showed instead of giving the characters dialogue that is supposed to be so clever and sharp when it comes as just unneeded.I'm giving it 6.0 out of 10