An average movie

To be honest, I have lost all hope with Kevin Smith a long time ago but this movie was his only one that I hadn't watched so far so I thought I might as well give it a try. Following  the decent but flawed 'Red State', he decided to make another horror feature (in fact, it would to be the first  installment of a Canadian horror trilogy, seriously). Well, even though 'Red State' was pretty realistic and straightforward, this movie was a complete different kind of ball game, that’s for sure. Indeed,  it is actually rather difficult to describe it, it was basically some kind of horror-comedy with a totally grotesque and preposterous concept resulting in something really weird. Unfortunately, even though it might have sound awesome on paper  (in fact, Kevin Smith's fans actually voted to get this movie made), it didn’t completely worked out fine as a movie. The main issue, in my opinion, is that, ok, the guy is transformed into some man-walrus but then where are you supposed to go from there? Indeed, so far, Justin Long was pretty good playing some arrogant podcaster and Michael Parks was basically born to play such articulate psychos but, from the moment the transformation is done, the only thing they could do was to provide some supposedly funny but in fact rather cringe-inducing scenes. On top of that, nothing much in fact really happens and some scenes were stretched out for too long only to reach a decent running time. For example, as a result, the performance by Johnny Depp which was at first pretty awesome and entertaining became rather boring and obnoxious after a while. To conclude, even though I think I'm being rather generous with my rating here, I still think it is worth a look but don’t expect too much before watching the damned thing. 

6/10