Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Comwayon A Disappointing Continuation

Brennan Camacho Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

Beulah Bram A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

Steve Pulaski Kevin Smith's dark Comedy Vulgar reminds me of World's Greatest Dad that I reviewed about two months back. Sure it's way newer, but they both have a way of mixing dark humor with Comedy. Plus this one is very clever on dialogue (typical Kevin Smith). I don't think there has ever been a KS movie that has disappointed in terms of dialogue.Vulgar features one of my favorite actors, Brian O'Halloran who plays a twenty-something loser on the verge of becoming suicidal. He is a party clown at kids birthday parties under the name of "Flappy". His dad is dead, his mom hated him, and he is harassed every day by his redneck neighbors. He then decides to become a party clown, then gets gang raped on his first gig, and is taped doing it too.On the edge of becoming suicidal and mentally depressed about the situation, he decides to do something daring, and saves a young girl from her abusive father. Flappy, who was once a loser, is now a big time clown with his own TV show.I don't want to say the conflict, but this movie, surprised me much so. I didn't think I would like this, but ultimately I fell in love with it. I cant figure out why this is quoted "the unknown Kevin Smith movie". This had a pretty low budget like Clerks and Mallrats, but it seems other Kevin Smith movies like Chasing Amy and Zack and Miri Make a Porno covered it up as well. All I have to say is, this movie is not what you would expect from Kevin Smith. This is about as extreme has I would want a KS movie. If you saw the original ending to Clerks, you could see that Kevin Smith wants nothing but misery for poor Brian O'Halloran.

paul david a 2000 film which I have only got around to seeing this year. Yes, its vulgar by title and action, yes its shocking but its a film which draw on your emotions and make you watch until the end. the gang rape of the clown is utterly sick and revolting but you will follow it. when will helps to save the little girl, he becomes a national hero and everybody loves a clown. its a splendid movie overall but not for everyone, as people have said previously and don't expose any kids to it or it will put them off hiring a clown forever. not sure what the overall message was of the film and I have watched it through a couple of times, always grimacing at the sensitive moments. it is a unique film in many ways and shows we are all vulnerable when we least expect it. who would be a clown?

tabolt okay. this is a very bad movie. it is not because of the subject matter, which is occasionally disturbing but so nonsensical that even the darkest moments tend to undermine themselves. kevin smith(whose work i sometimes really like) has his fingerprints all over this movie. the stilted dialogue, the poor plot logic, the uncanny ability to pick a cast who have no acting ability. brian o'halloran is always awful and the rest of the cast deliver their lines as if from cue cards. the one exception is smith himself, whose cameo role is the best actual performance he's turned in to date. i really sort of believed him.anyhow, one of two things will happen. you will either get irritated with the illogical, aimless plot and clumsy acting and struggle to wade through the final 30 minutes (by the climax i couldn't have cared less about what happened) or you will find something in the concept and odd execution here that makes you forgive all that. for me, not possible.

drspam ...but awfully close to it. you know what other "dark" and "controversial" movies have that this one didn't? a point....oh! and good acting. though i guess i wouldn't have minded the teleprompter-ish quality to the dialogue if what was on the teleprompters weren't so retarded.also it might have helped if the sound were actually synchronized to the image, but maybe that's just me being picky.wow, this movie was bad.-f