The Junkyard Willie Movie: Lost in Transit

Fine, okay, I'm exaggerating in the title just a little. I've been a fan of the Touch Tone Terrorists for more than 10 years now. Most of their prank calls are brilliant and, just like the Jerky Boys, RePete created some awesome, lovable characters in his calls - Blade, Willie and JimBob. I was excited to see the movie and watched it with a few friends this week. I was only slightly let down, as I wasn't expecting much from it.

It was a fun movie to watch and I will definitely be watching it again, but probably never again while I'm completely sober. The production seemed flawless. I was constantly amazed with the professional looking sets and props. For a low budget film, it seems like they spared no expense making this movie look great. Every line of the main character's voice was dubbed over and I didn't notice a single discrepancy with the mouth/voice, which was impressive too.

The acting was what I expected. The 3 main characters did an excellent job on their parts, but all the extras were pretty awful. And there were a lot of extras, most of them seeming to be plucked from the sketchiest strip clubs available.

The movie's main problem was the plot. It started out promising as a movie about a bunch of shipping company employees doing wacky things, but eventually went all over the place with each character having their own crazy set of misadventures. It was all fun to watch and I admit that I laughed a lot, but after awhile it seemed like it was just a bunch of bad SNL skits all strung together that would never end. I know it's stupid to complain about the plot in a movie like this, but I'm doing it anyway.

All in all, it was a fun movie and I'm sure I'll see it again. I can't imagine anyone who's not into the Touch Tone Terrorist prank calls "getting" this movie, so be sure to at least go to the TTT website and listen to all the hilarious prank calls clips. If the prank calls make you laugh, then you should be able to appreciate most of the humor in this movie too.

This was so bad. I struggled to get through it, but I wanted to see Erika Jordan, Mary Carey and Beverly Lynne. Beverly's character had the only funny joke in the entire film. I think part of the problem is like that the comedy styling of the Touchstone Terrorists is not visual, so their jokes really don't land on a visual medium like a movie. When I saw the poster for this film, I thought I'd check out their prank calls afterwards. But after watching this, there is no way. I didn't even want to finish the film. I sped it up to 1.4x speed and only kept it running because I was watching/suffering, with friends.

Save your time and watch something else, or skip ahead to Beverly's joke and keep it playing a few mor minutes to see Erika Jordan's scene. But you can skip the rest, even Mary Carey's scene. No offense to Mary, but even she's too good for this film.

I love this film. I love Junkyard Willie! Too often movies like this are not recognized. It's ashame that Lost in Transit isn't or wasn't in theaters.. I wish it would have had better distribution. Could you imagine Junkyard and Jim Bob on a 40' screen! I think the Junkyard Willie movie will be a classic in time to come. Self distributed movies rarely see the light of day but I hope Lost in Transit can have a second wind as I think it deserves an audience. I love the TTT cd's and all f the characters as well.

To quote Junkyard Willie; "What'choo Talking' 'bout!"

Barry G