Two's a Mob

Quite honestly, the best things about this movie are its title and tagline. It has a few moments (including a fairly decent spoof of Marlon Brando with a cute twist at the end of an interview with a father who complains about his daughter's boyfriend) but it isn't really worth the time unless you find it interesting to try to identify locations in it (this is a favourite pastime of many Canadians watching a Canadian-made movie). I was bored after about fifteen minutes and struggled through the rest, desperately trying to keep an open mind, but having a lot of trouble maintaining much focus on it.

Diorio, Kaulbars and Lalande have taken a tongue-in-cheek look at the gangster film genre through the medium of an ultra-low budget film. They blatantly rip-off and overplay every cliche they can fit into its 81 minutes. Happily, they often twist these to give them a different appeal. The violence borders on near-Monty Python a la 'The Pirana Brothers' sketch.

If they have not convinced anyone of their ability to put together a film, they ought at least to win credit as location scouts; they have done a better than passable job of making Ottawa look like a U.S. city - no mean feat.

The film is mildly flawed and uneven in spots but, if you know the genre or know Ottawa, it is worth a look.

As a former acquaintance of the perpetrators of this fraud on the art of comedy I should recuse myself but I just can't.

This film is a sad and sorry attempt by two people who should know better to pass off almost all of their former stand-up shtick as sly and knowing comedy.

This movie is about as much fun as spending two more hours at a dinner party with people who think they are brilliant wits and who can't stop laughing at their own jokes after all of the liquor has run out.