Konterr Brilliant and touching

Brendon Jones It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Lidia Draper Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Andrew Pelechaty With a 20-year film career, Kevin Smith is entitled to indulge his passion projects. "Yoga Hosers" is one such project. A spin off from "Tusk" (the first of a proposed True North trilogy), it stars his daughter Harley Quinn Smith, Johnny Depp's daughter Lily-Rose, Smith's wife Jennifer Schwalbach Smith, Depp himself and Depp's ex-wife Vanessa Paradis, even Stan Lee and Jason Mewes have cameos. It's like a parody of the old 'Adam Sandler doesn't make movies anymore, he just invites his celebrity friends to an island and films it' joke.The plot is ridiculous: set in Canada, Harley and Lily-Rose play teenage girls Colleen and Colleen, both obsessed with yoga, gossip magazine "Them" and their phones (characters are introduced with Instagram-style text, a bit of a gimmick but it works). The girls team up with Guy Lapointe (a strangely-accented Johnny Depp) to fight Canadian Bratwurst Nazis (played by Smith himself). Seriously, these little guys are the size of a Bratwurst sausage. With ridiculously OTT Canadian accents, clichés (though the end credit version of the Colleens' singing 'O Canada' is pretty good) and a strange Canada-meets-Nazi backstory, this movie's hard to take seriously. It's a world away from Smith's more realistic and foul-mouthed earlier work "Clerks", "Mallrats" and "Chasing Amy".One of the better running jokes is Justin Long's yoga instructor Yogi Bayer constantly being sued by Warner Bros for inappropriate business names.You can take this horror-comedy two ways: either hate it for its stupidity and blatant nepotism or embrace it for its unashamed silliness.It's not a patch on Smith's great earlier work, but it's enjoyable enough.

Wuchak RELEASED IN 2016 and written & directed by Kevin Smith, "Yoga Hosers" stars Harley Quinn Smith and Lily-Rose Depp as teen besties from Winnipeg who enjoy yoga and work at a convenience store. When the two Sophomores are invited to a Senior party they have to deal with Satanic slashers and, worse, a horrible evil buried beneath the earth hailing from WWII. Johnny Depp is unrecognizable as legendary man-hunter Guy LaPointe while the director plays the diabolical one-foot Bratzis. This quirky comedy/teen/horror flick is a spin-off of 2014's "Tusk" with the same cast, but I haven't seen that movie yet. Anyway, curvy cutie Harley Quinn Smith is one of the main highlights of "Yoga Hosers" and the camera doesn't fail to accentuate her spunkiness and beauty. (There's no nudity or sleaze, thankfully, and understandably so since Harley is the director's daughter). She was 17 during shooting (or ALMOST 17).Aside from Harley, the first 55 minutes are fairly entertaining, but kinda curious in an "I'm not sure if I'm gonna like this movie" way. It's the entire last act where this flick soars with ingenuity and laugh-out-loud scenes. Ralph Garman knocks it out of the ballpark as the mad creator of the Bratzis, Andronicus Arcane. THE FILM RUNS 88 minutes and was shot in Santa Clarita & Los Angeles. ADDITIONAL CAST: Justin Long plays the yogi while Tony Hale plays the father of one of the girls and Natasha Lyonne his babe. GRADE: B+/A-

Michael Ledo Collen C. (Lily-Rose Depp) and Collen M. (Harley Quinn Smith) are sophomores who work at the Canadian "Eh-2-Zed" convenience store where they practice their band in the back room. They take yoga at the strip mall from Yogi Bayer. One night Puppetmaster style Nazi bratwurst invade the store....The film is comedy and not horror. It makes fun of everything Canadian, more so than "Canadian Bacon." I originally believed this was made by Canadians making fun of themselves until I saw this was shot in California. Too late. I already laughed. The film also makes sport of our over crazed smart phone teens who love celebrity and everything outside of the real world...also the target audience-whoops. The humor was quirky. I loved "Pucky Charms" cereal as well as the girls inability to sing and their gems like, "Nothing is as bad as Canadian Idol." Stupid, smart, and fun. This is not for everyone.Guide: No swearing, sex or nudity. Sexual references. You must do a shot every time someone says "aboot" and feel free to stop 10 minutes into the film.

timber01 I love most of Kevin Smith's movies and I enjoy his recent stuff that steps outside his norms as he plays with whatever ideas intrigue him but this is the one notable exception. The movie had so much potential and fell so far short of it that the movie is virtually unwatchable. The acting sucks, even notable actors gave crappy performances in this. The fake Canadian accents and dialog had me turn the movie off twice before I was able to finally force myself to sit through the rest of it. Hopefully his next venture isn't as fantastically bad as this one was.