Movie Review: Postal

Funny and stupid sums up Postal.

...a raucous climate of misfits that exude bad taste and will leave you chuckling to yourself over their rather misguided values.

By Citizen Correspondent Robert Waldman

Date Posted: 05/28/08

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Right from the opening frames you know you’re in for a whale of a time as we stand back and relive the horrors of 9/11. Well, not so fast. Thanks to a “brave” script all things politically correct go out the window as we wind up in a hick town called Paradise. Once on location at a trail park we follow the plight of a bunch of wackos led by a nerdy toothpick of a guy named Postal. This poor sad sack lives with a wife whose not exactly playboy material if you get my drift. Worse yet, it seems that every one in this town has some fault and crabbiness is cranked up to the nth degree. About to explode are the ordinary citizenry who get annoyed at the slightest provocation.

Into this mix goes Postal whose currently at the breaking point. Along with his wayward Uncle Dave the duo hatch an elaborate plan to get even when they’re not too busy playing with the nubile ladies. As if this wasn’t enough food for fodder we also meet up with closet terrorists who have their own ideas of ridding the world of infidels while cashing in on a current craze plaguing the U.S.

Funny and stupid about sums up Postal which is apparently based on a hit video game. Right now production is underway for a new installment in this odyssey. Here though top marks go out to all the actors brave enough to step foot on this controversial set. Head of the pack Zack Ward (Freddy vs. Jason) assumes the position as the wily Postal Dude with fellow Canadian Dave Foley (Dick) hilarious as the religious radical Uncle Dave who would put Hugh Hefner to shame with his antics, not to mention paying homage to Jason Segel’s attention-grabbing opening in Forgetting Sarah Marshall.

Full of wild ridiculous scenes mocking terrorists, religion, the American administration, small town values and the like Ule Boll (In The Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale) succeeds in creating a raucous climate of misfits that exude bad taste and will leave you chuckling to yourself over their rather misguided values. No stone is left unturned as the killing fields arrive in suburbia with bodies dropping everywhere.

Out to enjoy the festivities (?) are fan favourites like Verne Troyer (Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me), J.K. Simmons (Spider-Man) and Larry Thomas as Osama himself with a nice turn from rising star Jackie Tohn.