As any meander through the movies that have their origins in�Saturday Night Live sketches will demonstrate, comedic ideas that work in the short form do not necessarily a funny feature make. You have your Wayne's Worlds, sure, but then you also have your�Night at the Roxburys and It's Pats, interminable variations on the same joke dragged out longer than anyone either watching or on the screen wanted. The comedy of�Tim Heidecker and�Eric Wareheim, creators of�Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!, might as well come from a different galaxy as those SNL bits, but�Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie�has at least one thing in common with The Ladies Man�— neither demanded nor benefits from the leap to the big screen.
I should confess I arrived late to Tim and Eric. I only delved into their�Adult Swim series after seeing the film, the opposite direction of the likely viewers for the�Billion Dollar Movie, which will go over best for established fans; at this year's Sundance premiere, the numerous walkouts of those presumably new to and displeased by the pair's work included people who actually�shouted invective at the screen on their way out. This didn't seem to faze the directors/writers/stars, who clearly thrive off of a certain adversarial relationship with their audiences. Like the pair's shows,�Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie�revels in a kind of aggressive anti-humor, with its fetishistic pleasure in home-video-worthy production nonvalues (edits that come a beat too soon or too late, frames that freeze on grotesque expressions, odd, deadpan line delivery), its distorted take on genre conventions, its love of low-level corporate ephemera and an utterly nonsensical plot. The picture is tonally and stylistically consistent with what they've done for TV, but those episodes run 11 minutes.�Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie is…
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