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Review: The Slammin' Salmon

The Lizard is broken indeed
By CHRIS FARAONE  |  December 9, 2009
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Here's how the shit version of Waiting likely came to be: the Broken Lizard boys (David Heffernan directs) thought the concept of a boxing-champ-turned-Miami-restaurateur was funny, and they wrote and shot a major motion picture without bothering to design a plot. The result is the year's least-funny film — even Jim Gaffigan can't pry a laugh from this script, which might provoke the Academy to revoke Michael Clarke Duncan's Oscar nomination.

Hyperbole is unnecessary when lampooning "the biz," yet here natural restaurant observations are left out while donkey-punch and Cleveland-steamer clichés further pollute the tired dialogue. Salmon is more awful than people who return entrées, more awful than celebrity bar-and-grills, more awful than all the other Broken Lizard flicks combined.

Only one thing might be worse: the thought of Comedy Central's airing this bomb four times a day.

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Comments
Re: Review: The Slammin' Salmon
I saw it and thought it was hilarious. You sound like a stick in the mud. BTW: You should do better editing, because the director's name is Kevin, not David.
By Ginnylithe on 12/09/2009 at 11:13:15
Re: Review: The Slammin' Salmon
I saw it and thought it was hilarious. You sound like a stick in the mud. BTW: You should do better editing, because the director's name is Kevin, not David.
By Ginnylithe on 12/09/2009 at 11:13:22
Re: Review: The Slammin' Salmon
Yikes-- this guy does not have a sense of humor-- Don't trust this review. The movie is really funny. Only one thing might be worse than this review: this guy at a party.
By brokenfan on 12/10/2009 at 11:58:55
Re: Review: The Slammin' Salmon
This review is by an idiot. Don't trust it. See for yourself. This movie is fantastic and is a well told story. Michael Clark Duncan gives his best performance yet and the audience was rolling. I guarantee this guy saw it alone on a DVD.
By giraffe on 12/11/2009 at 12:33:01

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