A friend of mine has been trying to get me to watch this movie forever and I finally agreed, so I went in expecting to hate it. I was surprised this wasn't a Jared Hess film, since a lot of the characters seemed like they were trying to be Napoleon Dynamite the whole time.
Despite my initial misgivings, there were stretches were I was enjoying myself. It's definitely the kind of movie that you would want to watch with friends. The narrative structure is one that switches perspective, and I think this technique worked well for story. And some of the characters deliver genuinely funny moments. But there was the occasional moment, usually a fight scene, that turned me off, especially in the film's climax.
Ultimately, my friend wasn't wrong to like the movie, but it's not one I would ever insist others to view.
The Sasquatch Gang
2006
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Drama
The Sasquatch Gang
2006
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Drama
Plot summary
Young fantasy and science fiction aficionado Gavin Gore and his friends stumble onto some huge footprints in the woods. A local cop, reporter, and a renowned Sasquatch authority investigate, while two of Gavin's dim-witted neighbors hatch a scheme to profit from the situation.
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The shirtless guy is named Shirts and he's the best part of the movie
Making a lot out of a little
I think the nicest thing about this movie is the way it makes so much of a movie out of such a simple premise. When it comes down to it, there isn't very much plot at all to this movie. Mostly what we get are well-developed character vignettes that revolve around a central story element.
I like the fact that it's non-chronological, even though it's not handled in such an interesting way as "Memento." I like the way the story is told from differing perspectives, but I wouldn't compare it to the eloquence of "Rashomon."
Of all the cute lines in the movie, I think the best single line in the script was Hobie's reference to the "bloodbath of sour grapes." There was some poignancy in that turn of phrase, and what it meant to not only his motivation, but most of the central characters, and perhaps the entire generation.
Or not.
Great way to kill 90 minutes.
Justin Long is Gavin's burn out neighbor, who desperate for money hatches a somewhat brilliant plan to sell fake plaster casts of Bigfoot prints. Gavin and his friends discover the Bigfoot tracks while out hiking one afternoon and race off to tell the authorities. Eventually the law (Jon Gries) brings a Sasquatch expert (Carl Weathers) to see the Bigfoot poo and prints they find in a local forest. Gavin's friends and rivals decide to complicate matters and sabotage Gavin's chance for fame.
Tim Skousen, of 2001's Leon, apparently decided to have his actors pretend they were in Napoleon Dynamite. What happened was some crazy amalgamation of Napoleon Dynamite, Joe Dirt, Bully and several other influences I recognized. Here the main character, Gavin (Jeremy Sumpter), seems in many ways to be the least nerdish character in the group. I applaud Addie Land who played what is easily imaginable as a real life unflattering role of the cute girl who inescapably has it in her genes to become fat. Most of the acting is not credible but the performances are caricatures anyway so it matters little.