WARNING: SPOILERS! GRAPHIC SEX, VIOLENCE AND PROFANITY. IF YOU READ THIS POST, YOU WILL HAVE NO REASON TO WATCH THIS STUPID MOVIE ABOUT THE DIRTIEST JOKE IN THE WORLD.
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A man comes into reality TV show producer Mark Burnett’s office. He says, “I have a great concept for a reality show.”
Mark says in his British accent, “Hit me.”
The man says, "We bring in a pastor’s family: husband and wife, their son, daughter and their cute golden retriever."
"The pastor beats up his wife and punches her in the face until she’s cut and bleeding. Then he face-fucks her until he reaches orgasm and comes on her face, the jizz mixing in with the blood. He ties her up in a chair and brings in his daughter and starts fucking her while his wife watches. After he’s done he ties up his daughter and brings in his son. The father forces the son to fuck his daughter and when the son is done, the father starts fucking him. Then he brings in the dog and makes the dog fuck the wife, the daughter and the son, and then he fucks the dog."
Mark sits there stunned.
Then he says, “I like it! It’s fresh, it’s ground-breaking!” He jumps out of his black leather chair and starts pacing. “We may have to blur and bleep out some parts but I think it will be a hit!” He turns to the man and asks, “What do you call it?”
The man says, “The Republicans.”
“Perfect! What about a sequel? Any ideas about that?” asks Mark.
“Absolutely!” says the man, “For the sequel, we bring in a black family and do the same thing except the wife will be pregnant and the father will perform an abortion. We’ll call it The Democrats.”
That’s it. That’s the movie. I just saved you $10. Before you go all lunatic on me and start flaming this post, I want to mention that everything I wrote here is in the movie except Mark Burnett. I also left out the part about the n*ggers and Jesus coming back to earth to fuck everyone.
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Article comments
1 - Johno
Thanks for the very honest and candid review! Oddly, I still want to see it.
2 - No Milk
After seeing the movie and reading the reviews, I disagree that this movie is about comedians and how they interact with each other backstage and the history of the dirty joke. This is not that movie. That movie would've been interesting.
This movie is about a dumb joke and how dirty and 'shocking' a bunch of comedians can make it. I wasn't shocked. The jokes weren't funny.
In fact, the funniest versions of the jokes were performed by a mime and a magic card player and the characters from South Park. If the director decided to take the joke and then get a bunch of kids or regular people to come up with their versions of it, it would've been funnier. It would've been a movie about the taboos in America and how we use jokes to overcome them.
This movie is just about shock value. I wasn't shocked. Therefore, no value.
3 - ClubhouseCancer
I thought the movie was hilarious, and surely not dependent on shock value. In fact, the point of the film is quite the opposite. I mean, who gets shocked by scat or deviant sex anymore, especially when it's just described?
Every comic tells the joke in a kind of "stage blasé" attitude, as if a vomit-covered one-armed Belgian sheep farmer fisting his retarded cousin were a logical part of a novelty stage act. I think if you're expecting to be shocked, you won't enjoy the film.
They certainly included a lot of barely remembered 80s "Night at the Improv" folks, many of whom were just not funny, so it's too long by 40 minutes, but the best parts are PIP (pee-in-pants) funny.
4 - No Milk
fine CC, that was (maybe) funny the first time it was told, watching the casual way they threw out the joke. then you get 50+ other comedians doing it pretty much exactly the same way, most of them laughing through their own "delivery." i was nearly catatonic after the 3rd time. the funny parts of the film was when they weren't focusing on the joke but on the comedians themselves, like sarah silverman, but they give it so little screen time. this movie shouldn't have been about the aristocrats joke, it should've been about else, something really funny, like the IRAQ WAR.
5 - Natalie Davis
I definitely was shocked by much of it. A lot of those things I had never heard of before. But I didn't see those ruminations on, say, the Dirty Sanchez or the Strawberry Shortcake, as the point of the matter. Frankly, I think that if you didn't get that the film's primary focus was about the art and nature of comedy and the comedy world (the secondary focus being freedom), you either weren't paying attention or you were too focused on the smut factor.
6 - HausW
I concur with No Milk, if the movie were about all things many people are implying the movie was about, then why spend the first thirty minutes talking about the history of the joke without revealing the joke. Then when they finally reveal the joke and the smuttiness of it, then they proceed to have the comedians do their versions.
If this movie is about censorship in art and comedy and all that jazz, they could have used other jokes, other topics as well, not just The Aristocrats joke.
If this movie was about the camaraderie of comedians backstage, then why are all the interviews singular? Why are there no shots of comedians hanging around together? Why is there no "showdown" of the joke. If this was the point of the movie, the director made a very poor job of it.
7 - Darwinfish
I am suprised to find so many people here think that the movie was about comics telling the same filthy joke. The point of the documentary is that this joke has been told since the days of Vaudeville and each comic has his or her own way of telling it. Many of the comics' versions weren't even especially filthy. The Aristocrats is a superb documentary that was interesting as well as funny.