Author: Paul Spence

Format: NTSC

Release Date: 12-11-2002

Details: Amazon.ca This out-of-control mockumentary follows aspiring filmmaker Farrell Mitchener's (Gordon Skilling) attempt to "document a subculture traditionally known as 'headbangers.'" Mitchener's subjects, two brain-dead mullet-heads named Dean Murdoch (Paul J. Spence) and Terry Cahill (Dave Lawrence), couldn't care less that they're the focus of the film and spend most of the picture shotgunning beers and trashing everything they come into contact with--including each other. From the get-go, they take particular joy in traumatizing Mitchener; a screening of one of his incomprehensible art films brings shouts of "Turn up the good, turn down the suck." Dean, who refers to himself as "Deaner," wears tight black stretch pants, plays bass guitar and sports a big bushy moustache, while the scrawnier Terry is partial to baggy sweatpants and half-shirts that say "F***in' Eh!" Chances are good that you either hung out with or hid from guys like this in high school.FUBAR unapologetically glorifies the pair's relentless and frequently reckless pursuit of a good buzz, loud rock, and chicks, from a front-porch bull session that leads to a hilarious vandalism spree to a camping trip where everything that's not bolted down gets tossed on a gas-fuelled bonfire. The rough, hand-held camera work and choppy editing of producer-director-cowriter Michael Dowse perfectly capture Terry and Dean's frenetic spontaneity as they stumble from one ridiculous misadventure to the next. Spence and Lawrence share writing credit, and the characters they become are pure genius--sort of updated, heavy metal versions of Bob and Doug McKenzie. Fans of Spinal Tap, American Movie, and Dazed and Confused should not miss this. --Adem Tepedelen

UPC: 065935144199

EAN: 0065935144199

Languages: English

Binding: DVD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood