The Exquisite Corpse Project

The Exquisite Corpse Project has to be one of the most innovative movies out there today! Perfect movie for the youtube generation, the movie is part documentary, part comedy, part sci-fi, part action, and part beautiful madness!

The director Ben Popik proposes an idea to his five comedy-writing friends in the beginning, to write a full-feature film. However, with a few stipulations: sequentially, each writer only could write 15 pages of the movie, and only was allowed to see the previous writer's 5 pages!

The movie starts off switching between documentary and film, and is intriguing enough to want to see what happens! Depicted in the film, are the struggles that occur when working with friends. Each person has a viewpoint, and a vision. When these conflict in a working environment, especially between friends, problems arise that challenge the true bonds between relationships.

Not only is The Exquisite Corpse Project a hilarious montage of ideas and stories, it touches on the personal aspects of what it's like to have legitimate conflict and portrays the reality of relationships.

The movie itself and the documentary aspect were wonderfully woven together. I will see this movie over and over again! Good luck Exquisite Corpse Project!

Five writers! Are you kidding!? But it works. I've never seen a documentary-comedy of this sort. Each writer is so likable and the interplay of differing creative minds is what makes this film so much fun! Dynamic writing styles, personalities and friendships all come into play here, and director Ben Popik has meshed fresh talent and these wacky writers(real friends)to produce a truly unique comedy doc. What else can you expect with five writers? The film includes doc footage, a love story, sci-fi and supernatural thrills and phenomena, and... a reptile. A funny and thoroughly enjoyable experience. Big Bravo, and, a grin! Olde English has finally taken their humor to feature film length!

The film funny and quite clever. I found the idea of exquisite corpse interesting, especially in this context... the story itself being one dimension and the relationships shared between friends being another. The story line moves from one voice to another as an exquisite should, sometimes incoherently, but always with cadence keeping the wit in the dialogue sharp and snappy. I felt that by the end of the film, it had grown into something more than a group so friends trying to put together one last project. It became a looking glass into the relationships of this group of friends. Great independent films that I would fully recommend!

I'll give this movie credit for doing something different, but as you would expect from the premise, writing a script like a game of telephone, it fails. Actually it starts off well enough, the first segment is OK, if contrived and too-cute. And the second segment is so deliberately bad it's acceptable. But they really needed to bring the talent to redeem it by some miracle after that point, but it becomes mired in silliness without being funny, and the behind-the-scenes segments are just not interesting. Assuming it's not fictional, and the collaboration really was blind, I'll congratulate them on their integrity, and I'm sure they amused themselves, but making a bad movie is not much of an accomplishment.

Saw this film at the Belize Film Festival showing in San Pedro. The premise of it was odd but intriguing enough to capture you from the start. Then the laughs and twists unfold into a fantastic movie that is likely to to be enjoyed by a wide range of movie-goers.

If you enjoyed any of the Olde English skits from years gone by then you will surely enjoy their creative styling throughout this film.

Keep an eye out for this enjoyable movie at your local film fest or request your local theater to show it.

Well done by the writers and director. Very entertaining and very highly recommended!