I watched #YogaHosers at Comic-Con and I ended up regretting it. In fact, I walked out of that place halfway through because the film was so awful, I couldn't even tolerate it. And perhaps I'm not the right audience for it, who knows, maybe it's an acquired taste thing. And I do have a lot of respect for Kevin Smith, I honestly do. If you've seen videos of his interviews or if you've seen him talk, the guy is articulate, he's funny, he's modest, he understands that filmmaking is a collaborative effort, it's like listening to a teacher speak. But YOGA HOSERS has got to be the worst film of 2016, hands down.
Part of true north trilogy which is a horror comedy series by Kevin Smith that started with "Tusk" and will end with "Moose Jaws," YOGA HOSERS is about best friends Colleens, one is Colleen McKenzie, played by Kevin Smith's daughter who has the coolest name on earth, Harley Quinn Smith, and the other is Colleen Collette, played by Johnny Depp's daughter, Lily-Rose Depp. And so the Colleens have after school job at Manitoban convenient store where an ancient nazi evil rises from beneath Canada's crust.
The film also features a lot of people from Kevin Smith's circle, plus a cameo by Johnny Depp whose great talent is absolutely wasted here. Look, to be fair, at the screening I attended, Kevin was there and he said if you like the movie, then that's good, if you hate the movie, that's cool too, man, meaning it sounds like Kevin is at a point in his career where he just doesn't care anymore about good storytelling quality. And sometimes, not caring can potentially be beneficial, sometimes there's power in not caring what other people think about you and your work. But in this case, it backfires.
Watching YOGA HOSERS is like stabbing yourself in the eye with an ice pick. Just the super duper tiny villain himself and how he enters the scene are just atrocious, and at one point, the two girls were just fighting these cloned little bastards inside that convenient store, that scene pretty much describes the entire movie, which is a complete farce. You might argue in defense of this movie calling it Canadian "Clerks," but that won't hold up considering how well-written "Clerks" was. Perhaps Kevin has lost his mojo, who the hell knows. But I think it's time for Kevin to just make movies based on somebody else's screenplay because I still do believe that he's a good director but he shouldn't do his own materials, he should throw everything he writes out the window and down to the landfill, and just direct either adaptations or somebody else's original story. YOGA HOSERS is an obnoxious movie that nobody should ever see.
-- Rama's Screen --
Part of true north trilogy which is a horror comedy series by Kevin Smith that started with "Tusk" and will end with "Moose Jaws," YOGA HOSERS is about best friends Colleens, one is Colleen McKenzie, played by Kevin Smith's daughter who has the coolest name on earth, Harley Quinn Smith, and the other is Colleen Collette, played by Johnny Depp's daughter, Lily-Rose Depp. And so the Colleens have after school job at Manitoban convenient store where an ancient nazi evil rises from beneath Canada's crust.
The film also features a lot of people from Kevin Smith's circle, plus a cameo by Johnny Depp whose great talent is absolutely wasted here. Look, to be fair, at the screening I attended, Kevin was there and he said if you like the movie, then that's good, if you hate the movie, that's cool too, man, meaning it sounds like Kevin is at a point in his career where he just doesn't care anymore about good storytelling quality. And sometimes, not caring can potentially be beneficial, sometimes there's power in not caring what other people think about you and your work. But in this case, it backfires.
Watching YOGA HOSERS is like stabbing yourself in the eye with an ice pick. Just the super duper tiny villain himself and how he enters the scene are just atrocious, and at one point, the two girls were just fighting these cloned little bastards inside that convenient store, that scene pretty much describes the entire movie, which is a complete farce. You might argue in defense of this movie calling it Canadian "Clerks," but that won't hold up considering how well-written "Clerks" was. Perhaps Kevin has lost his mojo, who the hell knows. But I think it's time for Kevin to just make movies based on somebody else's screenplay because I still do believe that he's a good director but he shouldn't do his own materials, he should throw everything he writes out the window and down to the landfill, and just direct either adaptations or somebody else's original story. YOGA HOSERS is an obnoxious movie that nobody should ever see.
-- Rama's Screen --