Swearnet: The Movie (2014)
Directed by Warren P. Sonoda
Fed up with being censored in their post-Trailer Park Boys lives, the out of work stars/world-renowned 'swearists', Mike Smith, Robb Wells and John Paul Tremblay decide to start their own uncensored network on the internet.
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The key difference between that duo and the Trailer Park Boys, however, is that the majority of Parker and Stone's self-generated efforts—the good (Book of Mormon, the “South Park” movie), the bad (Orgazmo) and the uneven ( Team America: World Police )—at least use their brash, provocative mode of comedy to speak to one unifying Big Idea.
A mere week after inflicting the ungodly awfulness of Trailer Park Boys: Don’t Legalize It on our shores, the Canadian cutups have the effrontery to do it again with their meta-themed, purported comedy in which Mike Smith, Robb Wells and John Paul Tremblay play versions of themselves rather than their beloved (in Canada, at least) characters.
Here’s an indication of how bad the out-of-character Trailer Park Boys ’ comedy Swearnet: The Movie is: the best thing about it is bottom-drawer Canadian comic Tom Green .
Swearnet—both the film and the website it's named after—is the brainchild of Mike Smith, John Paul Tremblay and Robb Wells, a trio of Canadian comics who are collectively known as the "Trailer Park Boys," the title of a successful mockumentary TV series they've headlined since 2001.
Green gets off some self-aware zingers — a Freddy Got Fingered gag included — with deadpan delivery that contrasts with the increasingly desperate and unfunny antics of stars Robb Wells, John Paul Tremblay and Mike Smith .
Swearnet: The Movie is, if you will, The Muppet Movie version of how Swearnet: The Website came to be, offering up a lightly fictionalized version of the site's origin with the three principals playing themselves.
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The key difference between that duo and the Trailer Park Boys, however, is that the majority of Parker and Stone's self-generated efforts—the good (Book of Mormon, the “South Park” movie), the bad (Orgazmo) and the uneven ( Team America: World Police )—at least use their brash, provocative mode of comedy to speak to one unifying Big Idea.