Originally written Feb 23, 2014
Bad Milo!- the story of a movie that promised little
and gave nothing. When you have a ludicrous premise for a movie, it’s an uphill
battle trying to get people to take you seriously. Most of the time, filmmakers
go for the “Might as well have fun with this” approach and let the weirdness
run wild. But the guys behind Bad Milo! decided to take on the Sisyphean task
of making a dramedy about a colon-demon and then were promptly squished by
their figurative boulder.
In case you were unaware, Bad Milo! is a movie about
a guy with a carnivorous demon living in his intestines. The premise sounds
good(ish) on paper, but somehow the writers royally screwed it up. The first 15
minutes or so of the movie had potential, but the story completely shifts gears
after that and everything goes down from there.
The main character, Duncan, goes to see a therapist
after having nightmare visions of Milo. The therapist is a generic hippie guy
played by the woodchipper guy from Fargo, who tells him that he has some sort
of ancient demon living in his guts. The therapist tells Duncan that he needs
to come to terms with Milo, and then he’ll go away. (Get it? Dealing with
personal demons, except it’s an actual demon! Hilarious!)
What follows is what can only be described as a
weird indie dramedy with ass-monsters. Duncan decides to make amends with his
estranged father, but apparently his dad has a colon-monster too. The movie is
pretty much a blur of sappy father/son bonding stuff, with the occasional
rubbery puppet popping up to break the monotony. But even then the stuff with
Milo isn’t that interesting. There’s a whole realm of silly possibilities to
explore in an colon-demon movie, and the potential is never tapped into.
For what’s
supposed to be a horror-comedy, there’s not much humor either. There’s a brief
bit about how Milo’s killings have been blamed on a rabid raccoon, and that’s
about as funny as it gets. The rest is just poor attempts at gross-out humor.
There’s a certain line that has to be crossed before something becomes so gross
it’s funny, but Bad Milo! constantly falls short of that line.
Overall, this is a weird and lame movie. I’m not
sure what the writers were going for, and it doesn’t seem like they knew
either. The movie has two modes- gross and melodrama. The shifts between the
two are really distracting and make the movie drag like crazy. Bad Milo! barely
clocks in at 80 minutes,but it feels considerably longer than that. This is a
movie about a butt-monster for crying out loud, it should at least be entertainingly
bad. Unfortunately all we got was a boring and confusing concoction of a movie.
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