TITLE: The Onion Movie
YEAR: 2008
GENRE: Comedy
RELEASE DATE: 3rd June 2008 (USA)
DIRECTOR: Tom Kuntz, Mike Maguire
iMDB URL: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0392878/
Plot: Satirical interpretations of world events and curious human behavior…
I downloaded rented(?) this film the other day. Thought, “hmmm might be good…”. Wasn’t fussed about watching it straight away. So Monday night, chilling, playing WoW and thought [I] might as well watch a film at same time (Dual monitors, right! :D)
So I fire it up, and instantly presented with cheesey news broadcast music and various newspaper headlines spiraling onto the screen. All with humourous titles from, “World’s Largest Metaphor Hits Ice-Berg” referring to the Titanic (duh!), to a picture of a group of scientists with the title, “Female Orgasm Discovered”.
The film is based around a News programme. 90 Minutes of news reports generally taking the piss out of everything; Stereotypes, Media, Politics, Peoples hobbies and interests, and pushing political correctness to the limits without crippling the comedy.
My favourite sketch from the show, a guy goes to upgrade his PC for the “new” Bates 4000 to find out when he gets home, the Bates 5000 is just out. He returns the PC to hear on the radio the 6000 is out. Back to the store, buys 6000 when a delivery guy is taking away left over 6000’s cos the 7000’s are out. Cut to Gill Bates (CEO) office where he is talking on the phone about the Bates9000 PC and gets a visitor… a brilliant insite to how new pc’s are obsolete within days. Hehe!
Of course, if you’ve never heard of The Onion before now (Like me) have a look at this promo video:
[ The Onion: Promo ]
Posted under Funny, Movies
This post was written by Grunt on June 9, 2008
Tags: Comedy, film, Funny, intarweb, internet, Movies, news, newspaper, Onion, video