Tim & Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie: Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim’s television work is not defined by restraint or timidity, but rather delirious excess and unrepentant weirdness. But the duo’s television shows can’t help but look austere compared to Tim & Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie, a cult classic in the making that features sights and sounds and images never before seen in a commercial American film. Tim & Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie begins by going too far, then just keeps on going. The film’s ramshackle plot finds a Hollywoodified Tim & Eric enraging the heads of a sinister multi-national corporation (run by a perpetually apoplectic, eternally expectorating Robert Loggia) by spending one billion dollars on a “film” that wouldn’t stand a chance of recouping its budget even if itwas longer than three minutes long. Tim & Eric find themselves in desperate need of the billion dollars that will allow them to pay back their debt to Loggia. Thankfully an opportunity to make exactly one billion dollars arrives unexpectedly when eccentric businessman Will Ferrell (who shares a producer credit with partner Adam McKay) offers anyone an opportunity to make a billion dollars to run a mall so rundown and hellish it looks like the last commercial enterprise of a bleak post-apocalyptic future or something you might find in one of Detroit’s nicer neighborhoods. The mall’s inhabitants include a diseased man played by a gloriously inhibited John C. Reilly, an angry sword-shop proprietor played by the always game Will Forte, an incongruously dignified man who runs a used-toilet-paper outlet, and most importantly, a somewhat attractive middle-aged woman who inspires a sexual competition between Tim & Eric as intense as it is stomach-churning. Billion Dollar Movie features one of the most graphic and unsettling sex scenes in recent memory; it’s a testament to the film’s considerable chutzpah that something infinitely more disgusting (involving children!) is happening at the exact same time. Freed from the restrictions and censorship of cable television, the duo is able to really let loose and let their warped imaginations run wild. Tim & Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie boasts the courage of its lunatic convictions. Rather than attempt to broaden the duo’s fanbase the film seems gleefully and perversely intent on scaring away mainstream audiences. In a timid comedy world, Tim & Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie feels genuinely dangerous and transgressive: it’s funny and shocking in equal measures and unlike anything that’s liable to appear onscreen this year or any other.
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“Two guys get a billion dollars to make a movie, only to watch their dream run off course. Starring Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim”, shrim.
