Assholes

Critic's Metascore: 17!! Need I say more?

First off: Not for everone. But if you like totally unique, hilarious, bizarre, chaotic, and unhinged indies, then this might be right up your... alley. I live for movies like this, where there are no rules, and obviously no one to answer to. The two lead characters in this do such a great job, as popper-crazy, wasted addicts (with some serious VD). Their performances are outrageous and uninhibited, and they even work in some guerilla filmmaking in the middle of Times Square. Hilarious! I want to see these two chracters in another movie, at their highest!

Adah's (Betsey Brown) sex buddy/boyfriend/future husband Aaron (Jack Dunphy) lives with her brother (and future pompous, indiscretionary psychoanalyst), Adam (Peter Vack). Adah has gone straight, but her brother peer pressures her into hits off his bong... and contracts what has to be the most disgusting case of herpes put on film. She promptly passes this along to Aaron, and down the rabbit hole they go. Their behavior in front of their mortified parents is priceless. Love the death metal music cues. That's really all I can tell you, because this movie is full of surprises.

If you're into unpredictable, obnoxious, gross, yet hilarious comedies that have no intention of playing by the rules, A-holes is a solid pick. Actually, more punk rock than anything I've seen in a long time.

I came across this after watching the I Am Divine documentary and feeling nostalgic for old John Waters movies. This movie really has some strong influence of Pink Flamingos in its DNA. I love Peter Vack since watching him in the movie Consent. So I had to give this a try. And I love everything about it. Yes it's foul and disgusting. But if you don't mind that and if you in fact enjoy foul and disgusting movies, then give this a try. You may hate it but at least you can't say it's boring. Thanks Peter for not being afraid to make this disgusting piece of art.

As another review said, it's quite rare such experiments on the rather rear end of the movie spectrum) get produced, so thumbs up (not literally up theirs) for this, also as the (brave) actors are really good (I mean come on, how on earth would you prepare for such characters/roles?) Generally more hilarious and entertaining than gross I found; also the impro street scenes with members of the public presumably not knowing what's going on are quite funny.. All in all an interesting mix of many genres. And even involving a summoned Bowel-Demon - lol.

I guess I'll be one of those that did like this movie. I'm not going to pretend it was the best movie ever but I did enjoy it. I was expecting a comedy and that's exactly what I got. Okay it might not be the humor everybody enjoys, poop and buttholes are a bit childish, but nevertheless the irony and the "dark" humor made me laugh more than once. The cast was actually much better than I thought it would be, good actors with a silly but delicate subject.

This movie will gross out some viewers, but others, including Troma survivors, will shrug and ask what's the big deal. Yes, it includes scenes of anal-oral interaction; yes, it includes a fair amount of well-simulated feces. And yet what discomfited me the most was when the main characters acted out in public as horribly obnoxious jerks, so my perspective may be atypical.

A clinical description: Adah and Aaron are a woman and a man who find their romantic prospects circumscribed by herpes. They find solace in each other's rear ends, and in inhalants. The infection and the drug use escalate, culminating in physical changes that are bizarre and humorously symbolic.

So it's a comic-horror-fantasy-gross out story. Does the director intend this as a satire/lament/celebration of the ongoing mainstreaming of heterosexual anal intercourse? Or as a serious warning of the dangers of drugs, couched in raunchy hyperbole? Or, given that Adah, her brother Adam, and their parents are played by real world sister, brother, and parents, maybe it's just a group of slightly weird people, very comfortable with one another, playing together to stay together? I don't know.

Whatever it's meant to be, it's entertaining. It's funny once in a while, gross much of the time, and usually well-acted. Better special effects at the end would have helped, but I'm amazed that any funding was found for this, so kudos to the Brown family. Hmm... maybe this film was borne from word association!