Script Review: The Film Geekz Just F---ked Your Sister!
Written by FilmGeekz Staff
January 14, 2008
IESB's distinguished and world-travelled
reader/reviewer Mr. E is taking a trip down Film Geekz Street this time with a
review of, well, a new script involving copulation and someone's sister.
Writer Melissa Stack's script has got MTV Films behind
It to distribute, fitting actually, with a release set for 2009.
Read Mr. E's review below!
Last Sunday I got a knock on my door with a
special surprise waiting for me.
Behind the door were Breeny and Brienie, two
identically tan non-identical blondes with the most awesome out-of-control dark
roots I had ever seen.
They both had these huge melons and I was
impressed.
It was obvious they had just shopped at the
Farmer's market down the street from my house.
"Mr. E?" they said in unison. It was
like listening to Mary Kate Olsen if she had an identical twin.
"Uhhh.... yes?" I said, pausing to
close my bathrobe. After all, it was 3:45 PM and I had been up late the
previous night fighting crime.
"I'm Breeny," one said.
"I'm Brienie", the other said.
"Like the cheese?" I asked.
"Do I like what cheese?" Brienie
responded.
I flicked the sleep-boogers (bogies, for you UK
readers) out of the corners of my eyes.
"What...what do you want?"
"We want to give you something," one
(Breeny maybe) said, twisting coquettishly, like Denise Richards in the post
carwash scene in 1998's WILD THINGS.
I started to close the door on their Casabas. I
coughed.
"I'm good, really", I said gruffly.
"We have a scrip," the other one said,
biting her pinky like she was prepping for a Maxim magazine shoot.
"You mean a script?" I asked, now
almost interested in something besides watching their dark roots grow in the
bright wash of sunlight that was caressing their orange skin.
"Scrip-tuh?" Brienie (I think)
questioned. "Really? The T isn't silen__, like it is in the song
"Silen Nigh?"
"Lemme see," I barked.
They handed over the script. It was wrapped in
cellophane.
"What's with the shrink wrap?" I asked.
"We wanted to keep it fresh!" they
responded.
"Thanks," I said. "Now scram! Go
bug some other Internet script-reviewing guy. "It's almost time for
Matlock!"
They fled, their blondish ponytails bouncing from
side to side like a pair of Brady girls.
"Who was that?" asked Mrs. E, emerging
from our office.
"Oh nobody," I said "late
Christmas carol singers."
I closed the door, plunked down on the couch,
unwrapped the script and read the title:
I WANT TO F--- YOUR SISTER
To quote Hellboy: "Oh Crap!"
I WANT TO F--- YOUR SISTER is the name of the
script.
Really.
I was so insulted by this title that I could
hardly think straight.
Two Tylenols later and once my head stopped spinning,
I started reading and quickly discovered the script for I WANT TO F--- YOUR
SISTER has one problem: the script.
Okay, so it's not a reprehensible piece of dreck
like SUMMER'S END (review pending-write your congressman), but rather, it's
just too stupid for its own good.
How stupid is I WANT TO F--- YOUR SISTER?
Where to start...hmmm.
Let's start at the beginning - SPOILERS AHEAD!
The movie starts with MANDY leaving her
over-worried parents PAMELA and LARRY, at the Mumford, MA train station for The
Big Apple New York City. Good girl MANDY (think Nancy Drew without the
preachiness or the meddling or the annoying over-reliance on skirt suits) is
off to visit her big brother: hotshot broker DREW. Before I get to him, let me
stay with MANDY. She gets on the train, waves bye-bye to the parental units,
and takes off her sweater, doffs her glasses and shakes her hair loose from its
tight ponytail, gives a killer smile to some lucky dude on the train and...!
She arrives in The Big Apple (surprise, surprise)
gets all of her stuff stolen. This unfortunate turn (but, let's face it,
completely expected) of events introduces LAUREL MCMICHAELS, the nicest beat
cop in all of NYC, and according to the script, she has ...street smarts.
Now to DREW. He's the kind of guy you'd expect to
find doing cocaine off a dead or dying stripper. He's not, because this movie
doesn't know if it's a PG-13 or an R rated flick. Yes, he's at a strip joint,
and yes, he's entertaining clients, and yes, he's completely forgotten about
MANDY.
Funny, yes?
No.
She gets to his bachelor pad and, it's a mess
with pizza boxes, empty bottles, dirty clothes and porn strewn everywhere.
Wow. I never would've guessed that.
Then, there's a
MANDY-cleaning-the-apartment-montage, complete with her chucking the sponge at
DREW's head, and then, there's totally, the shopping-in-New York-montage.
There is one good thing about the script here.
After we get the stupid cleaning-DREW's apartment montage, his newly MANDY
cleaned and decorated bachelor pad is described as having candles and flowers
everywhere and there are pretty pillows on the sofa.
Gee, so nobody told me that MANDY was a part of
the "Queer Eye For The Straight Guy" TV show.
They go get Bagels, meet AARJEV (more below) and
from there DREW schools his little sis on how to ride the subway, they ride the
subway, he tells her about her job and I've wasted minutes of my life reading
this shite.
I hate movies that point and tell you where they
are and where the characters are going. It's like clicking through a travelogue
filmstrip from the 1950s instead of watching a movie with, ya know, a story to
tell?
Anyway...MANDY is to be a summer intern at DREW's
company, which is filled with a million guys ALL EXACTLY LIKE DREW and all of
the interns are hot hot hot chicks and of course, MANDY is the hottest.
PAUSE SPOILERS
The other biggest problem with I WANT TO F---
YOUR SISTER is that every Comedy, like Drama, is built on conflict and these
plot points are so well worn, they make the basic Bikini Car Wash storyline
look like 2005's SYRIANA.
Let's try a few variations on the movie's
narrative and see if there is any funny to be found.
How about this: Hot-shot broker DREW is visited
by his little sister MANDY-she's not hot-but she acts like she is, much to his
embarrassment.
Or hot girl MANDY visits her broker brother
DREW-he's a hotshot broker, but he's completely socially inept, much to her
embarrassment. She decides to turn that toad into a prince.
Or, recently fired big city broker DREW has to go
home and live with mom and dad following getting fired from his big city broker
job. His little sister MANDY is his supervisor at the local Radio Shack.
RESUME SPOILERS
With the exception of AARJEV, a guy that
predictably ends up MANDY's boyfriend, every single guy is a good-looking,
rich, well-dressed, disgustingly loud mouthed cocksmith that talks in non-stop
paragraphs about sex and bodily functions.
Every single woman in this flick, with four
notable exceptions that show up in the last 7 minutes is the hottest woman
imaginable, and they all wear the coolest clothing and the smallest bikinis and
they go to the trendiest nightspots and, of course, MANDY is the smartest,
sexiest, most hot, smallest bikini-wearing one of them all.
But that's not all, folks. Every location is the
most: the hottest/the most sexy/the richest/the biggest/the trendiest...
whatever.
There's even a champagne tower that's described
as being twenty feet high.
See big equals funny so real big equals really
big funny.
But wait, there's less:
I WANT TO
F--- YOUR SISTER discovers too late, that it wants a heart, too.
So there's a semi-reformed DREW, and a
"heartfelt" speech about what it's like to be a big brother that made
me choke back my gag reflex - what were you thinking, tears?
The script is, bluntly put, a pile of crap.
I didn't laugh once and this script is lame-o.
END SPOILERS
How lame-o?
When I was 19, I shared an apartment with two
guys that got drunk Thursday through Sunday, including the playing of
"Quarters" until the wee hours of the night with their fellow drunken
idiot friends. When they woke up, they'd have chili for breakfast and then
enjoy sharing their farts all day long.
At least after I read the script for I WANT TO F---
YOUR SISTER, I didn't have to pick up all of the empties and trash them,
surrounded by the ripe odors of old beer, stale cigarette ashes, and funky
fresh flatulence.
If you saw the fast-talking corporate bullshit of
WALLSTREET and the family picnic bit in MR.MOM and the visiting the big estate
scene from THE SECRET OF MY SUCCE$S and the guy with a ladder at the window
hogwash from "Dawson's Creek" and the breast popping out of the
bikini top in US SUPREME COURT VS.THE BIKINI CAR WASH, then you've already seen
this movie.
Or, if you've watched the ads for HBO's
"Entourage", then you can skip I WANT TO etc.etc.
But that's how lame-o it is.
I WANT TO F--- YOUR SISTER gets a DRAMA (Kevin
Dillon) from HBO'S "Entourage" out of a possible SHAUNA (Debi Mazar)
from HBO's "Entourage" or 1.5 out of 10.
Mr. E would like to cast the super cool Debi Mazar
as Lois Lane if they ever did a Superman movie set in the 1940s.
One person has commented on this article.
No.1 Crap
I agree. The script was absolute crap. Now wonder MTV went for it. Also, yeah, I laugh at fresh off the boat Indians. Tall and skinny is how Aarjev is described. Yeah, lots of Indian are skinny, because generations of poverty and malnutrition are hilarious. But wait, you know what else I find funny? Black people are nothing but walking diabetes cases, STD factories, broken home builders, and wait, the unemployment rate in Harlem in the 60\'s was an astounding 10%. What is it now? OVER FIFTY PERCENT. That is an *insane* figure. I wouldn\'t believe it if someone told me it was 20%.
But you know what, I don\'t see a lot of movies made by white people with black people having big lips and the complete inability to speak English. Instead, pretty much every commercial you see on television has a black guy in a power position over a white guy. The white guy can\'t work the treadmill, needs his insurance policy explained to him, whatever.
Stop taking cheap shots at Asians. I laugh at our differences, too, but it\'s racist, and that\'s a term I think is thrown around way too much. I hate overly politically correct B.S., but I also hate seeing an entire culture lampooned for a cheap laugh.
The script is awful. Just awful. And no, I\'m not bitter, my film is getting distributed by Focus, so there\'s no comparison.