Bagboy

Bagboy asks a lot of you. One, it assumes you know who Dr. Steve Brule is (he's a John C. Reilly character from the Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job universe who also has his own spin-off show, Check it Out!). Two, it asks you to believe that Brule's idiot-doctor character (who is in no way qualified to be a doctor) has somehow written, directed and starred in a sitcom pilot set in a grocery store. Three, it demands that you accept that Brule has somehow pulled this off while being the least professional actor (remember, an actor playing an actor) on set, constantly blowing his lines, getting into legitimate accidents, and blurting out directions to other actors mid-scene.

It's a big ask, but it's okay: Bagboy is a comedic gem for those in a Tim and Eric mindset. The pacing is tight, the jokes are constant, the premise is absurd, and the cast is a delightfully weird mix of a couple of "legitimate" actors and a whole host of the non-actors that powered Awesome Show Great Job, like David Liebe Hart and his terrible, terrible puppets.

If you like absurdist comedy and have 22 minutes to spare, you could do a lot worse than Bagboy.

There's 20 mins of my life I can't get back. Not sure what was worse....seeing John C Reilly make a fool of himself in whatever this was suppose to be or the rest of the cast, who seem apparently, to have never acted before. They all look like they are reading off cue cards. The dialogue is nonsensical. I don't understand how anyone can rate this more than a 1. There is not one drop of humor in the show. Its moronic at best. I don't even understand how a pilot got aired...The laugh track plays constantly, yet there is nothing remotely funny. If I were in this production, I would be embarrassed...As for Steve Brule...I shall remember not to watch anything he is ever associated with.... I just can't believe anyone associated with this show would want anyone to see it....

...But you should already know that, because John C. Reilly had been playing this character for years, so it's obviously a bit of a passion project and not something to which he grudgingly or tentatively agreed. I do think that some responsibility falls on the viewer to not judge a work solely by the very end of its continuity, though I suppose that the argument could be made (for little more than the sake of argument) that a work does better when it can stand alone (although plenty have fallen to narrative dishonesty in pursuit of this quality). Anyway, you should already have consumed a few of the shorter segments starring Dr. Steve Brule so you have any idea whether you're going to enjoy him in a twenty-plus-minute dose or if that's just going to leave you feeling confused and upset.

Made to look like a old TV-show from some odd little local TV-Channel but lacks even an ounce of humor. I can enjoy a good spoof, but the problem here is that it is an awful piece of (insert a suitable word of your choice that really reflect the worst thing you know). I feel bad writing more letters than this, because every single letter is yet another moment of my life wasted by this garbage so I think I'll stop righ

Another reviewer is criticizing reviewers from three years ago that they had to do some research about Bagboy, that it was a Brule special, or whatever. To me it doesn't matter what kind of special it was, and yes I don't know Brule and I honestly don't care, as this short movie is just dumb. Silly humor okay, at least once in awhile, but this is just beyond silly. I did like John C. Reilly in Step Brothers but I wonder what he was thinking agreeing to play in Bagboy. The only positive thing about Bagboy is that it is really short so you only waste your time for 22 minutes.