I Did Not Have The Time Of My Life Watching Nimrods
I laughed exactly once while watching Green Day's new movie Nimrods , which is dubiously billed as a comedy. It quacks like a comedy, anyway. Characters make outlandish, insanely dumb decisions that result in slapstick gags. They speak in what are clearly supposed to be funny voices. Various quasi-famous comedy types make cameos that are somehow too short and too long at the same time. I didn't…
I experienced exactly one laugh while watching Green Day's film Nimrods, which is ambiguously promoted as a comedy. Despite its comedic appearance, the movie is riddled with absurd, ridiculous choices that lead to slapstick humor. Characters deliver lines in exaggerated, funny voices, and several semi-famous comedians make brief yet overstayed cameo appearances.
I did not chuckle at any of those moments, but I did find amusement in the scene where all seems lost for our teenage protagonists, who seem destined to return home to Kansas City with their dream of opening for Green Day unfulfilled. The opening guitar riffs from "Wake Me Up When September Ends" unexpectedly interrupted their descent, eliciting a chuckle that wasn't intended by the filmmakers. The post "I Did Not Have The Time Of My Life Watching Nimrods" first appeared on Stereogum.
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