Operation Taco Gary's

I saw this film at a film festival with an audience anxious to laugh and have a good time. A comedy with Dustin Milligan from Schitts Creek and Simon Rex from Red Rocket? I was optimistic this would be a winner.

It's clear that the writer used Harold and Kumar Goes to White Castle as his inspiration. Two doofus leads, a "C" level celebrity playing an alternate version of themselves, and Taco Gary's as the stand in for White Castle. But where that movie made me laugh out loud, this just made me cringe. The writing so poor, and the directing so amateurish that almost nothing worked. It wasn't funny stupid. Just stupid. Almost every joke fell flat. By the halfway point numerous audience members abandoned the mission.

Rex mercilessly chews the scenery here. It was hard to believe this was the same actor who was so good in Sean Baker's Red Rocket. Milligan fares slightly better, but the script and direction continuously let him down. Hot Frosty is an Oscar winner compared to this.

I doubt this film will go any further than a few festival showings. If you do have the opportunity to see it, I recommended you resist the urge and go to White Castle instead.