Quasi (2023) The title of this latest comedy from the Broken Lizard troupe could also describe the percentage of times it makes' you laugh.......depending on your affinity for a throwback to the kind of throwaway raunch-fests once pumped out by National Lampoon and Mel Brooks.
Yes, it freely borrows Victor Hugo's pathetic, poignant Notre Dame bellringer Quasimodo and plops him into a completely different series of equally dismal circumstances in 18th century France.
But never fear, the usual stuff's in place here......torture mob cruelty, devious imbecilic royalty, endless abuse heaped on poor 'Quasi'......and everyone spitting out 21st century gags at each other with the speed of an AR-15. It's what a Monty Python movie might look like if all the Python guys underwent lobotomies before they sat down to write the script.
But......I'm embarrassed, mortified and humiliated to reveal.......
I laughed. God help me.....more than once.
So you should know what you're getting into here......prepare for stupidity and silliness on a massive scale,,,,,,it that type of comedy tickles you (even after early adolescence), then it's passably amusing 3 star (***) effort.
I'll say this much for the Broken Lizard Guys, they function well as tireless, non-stop farceurs. Don't worry if you think any particular gag comes off as lame, dumb and unfunny.....rest assured that if one joke doesn't land for you, about a thousand others are right behind it.
If, however, this goofball, rogue 'Mad Magazine' stuff doesn't so much as crack a slight smile out of you......give it a hard pass.
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