This movie has so much potential. At least from a “quality guy gets lots of tail” perspective. However, it doesn’t matter, the end result sucks. It’s rather sad too. I usually like David Deluise and it’s got a Belushi in it.
Bachelorman is based on the stand-up comedy of Rodney Lee Conover. Rodney has a fairly large role in the movie that he help co-write, but he did a terrible job of listening to himself. In the extras they have a few clips from his stand-up act that helped influence the movie, including his “What are you, high?” joke that apparently killed in clubs. Here’s why that joke would be funny in a club, we all knew a person like that growing up, hence funny. When you make “What are you, high?” every fourth line in the movie we revert back to “holy crap that is annoying.”
So, basics of the movie. “Bachelorman” has a lot of luck with the ladies. Basically every line a normal guy uses in a bar and gets laughed at mysteriously works for him. This of course makes his friends look up to him as a superman which gives birth to stupid animations of “Bachelorman.” Then in the natural flow of Hollywood his dream girl moves in next door. However, she’s the one person who can resist his charms. He falls for her, she eventually falls for him, they go out, Bachelorman realizes he’s whipped, breaks up with her only to realize he wants to be with her. And from there it sorts itself out.
Now, this movie isn’t completely useless. There is one funny line. When both characters have dates over and are pretending to be going at extra loudly so the other one can hear through the wall, Missi Pyle’s date looks at her with a straight face and asks her if she’s faking it. At that point he’s sitting on the bed fully clothed and she’s standing next to the wall fully clothed screaming in “Joy”. Whoops, I just spoiled any reason for you to watch this. All of the other jokes just completely fail, most from being beaten to death. From “What are you, high?” to “Programming needs to step it up.” it’s just pitiful.
There’s nothing from a video standpoint to really put this movie at the top of any lists either. The film making isn’t bad, but not great either. The animation scenes are pointlessly stupid. It’s like having the movie paused to go over what just happened even though the movie isn’t complicated and I’m pretty sure a monkey could follow it without the animations. Again, in the extras, the writers/producer types talk about how they wanted to use animations because everyone said “You can’t use animation in a movie like this” so they put it in as a bit of an “effe you”, well I’m here to tell you, sometimes, it’s ok to listen to everyone. They are right every now and then.
Bachelorman is presented in 1.78:1 Widescreen format and Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound.
The audio is good, and the video is fine. I didn’t care for the music all that much, but it’s what they could afford and fits the story pretty well.
There is a 19 minute 42 seconds behind-the-scenes feature which includes:
The Baby
Making of BachelorMan
The Beginning
Band of Bachelors
Stunt Baby
Poker
13 minutes of Deleted Scenes that thankfully got cut or the movie could have been worse.
10 minutes of Outtakes that are bad
A trailer and a TV ad
Then the extras wrap up with footage from Total Complete Sports Network (The company “Bacherlorman” works for)
Bad. Real bad. That special kind of bad that you can taste.
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