The Video Guys
USA/NR/95 minutes
www.videoguysthemovie.com
Your wedding day can be the most stressful day of your life. These video guys have seen it all, from cheating grooms to sexy brides. They know how to be discreet and how to deal with any problems thrown at them. Now they face their greatest challenge, to shoot one of their ex-wife's wedding.
The Video Guys is the directing day beau for its director/star Dan Brennan (Paul) and he does a very credible job of it. The film gives a different comedic twist to Men in Black (1997) and Ghostbusters (1984). This troupe of misfit losers have banded together at the low end of film event preservation and go to any length to make sure that the groom shows up, the bar mitzvah boy does his speech and the birthday girl doesn’t drink too much. In so doing they are guaranteed to be able to edit a wonderful and “honest” video to preserve this magic moment for posterity.
While the acting is good the comedic timing is just OK, the production values are good and the editing pulls the story together. A special mention has to go out to Sabrina Brennan (Miss Piggy), the director’s daughter. She does a heck of a job and could really be a child actor to watch. However, I couldn’t help getting the feeling that The Video Guys was a pilot movie for a TV series. While the film doesn’t use gratuitous sex, nudity or violence to tell its story, I couldn’t help feeling that if it did, like Californication (2007 TV series) or Weeds (2005 TV series), it would actually play better and be funnier and more interesting The ensemble cast of misfit heroes reads well as a sitcom in this day and age of reality television and distrust of authority. I hope that the film makers are able to use The Video Guys as a spring board for a new HBO, TNT or Showtime original series. In the meantime, you can rent this little gem and imagine the lengths that a cable network can develop it into. Three stars.
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