In my award-winning Fall Movie Guide (2012 Botswana Village Journal’s Best English Blog Film Preview of September), I mentioned that I’ve got this funny, awful feeling in my gut that Patton Oswalt’s latest comedy, Nature Calls, might be a letdown. Yesterday, though, the red band trailer hit Yahoo! and now I can confidently say that this film looks… like it has a lot of curse words and yelling.
Also starring Johnny Knoxville, the late Patrice O’Neal and Rob Riggle, Nature Calls has been billed as Meatballs meats the Boy Scouts, as Oswalt plays a Scout leader clinging to his troop’s last few members, while his cooler brother (Knoxville) keeps stealing kids away with his video games and ice cream. Ultimately, it looks like a much louder version of that Saved by the Bell episode when Mr. Belding’s brother showed up and convinced Zack and the gang to bail on their senior trip in favor of white water rafting.
But, again, louder. So much louder.
I really like Riggle and I think that he’s already a monumental improvement over Frank Caliendo as the new comic relief on the FOX NFL Sunday pregame show, but that’s not really saying much. He’s funnier than just being the guy who yells all the time, right? Like, there has to be more to him than, “Hey, be your guy from Step Brothers again”. Man, I hope my gut is wrong.
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Um, yeah. I like Patton fine, but his “I am the next-level zen master of standup and I will tell you what’s funny” bit sort of grates. Looks like a Redbox rental to me.
An unkind word about Oswalt? Mancini will cut you. With a quickness.
My love of Oswalt is ironic.
cheese whiz.
I’d love to watch Patton Oswalt and David Cross in a celebrity UFC match for the chance to lick Louis CK’s balls. Oh wait…
If you don’t watch The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard for Jeremy Piven playing a mercenary used car salesman, Ving Rhames as his lovelorn associate, or Ken Jeong as the Korean sales associate victim of a Jap targeted hate crime… watch it for Riggle as the pituitarily enhanced 10 year old love interest of an oversexed Kathryn Hahn.
No, it was Belding’s brother who blew off the senior trip, which was a white rafting adventure. I believe it was because of a stewardess.
Rod talked them into going white water rafting and then blew them off at the last minute.
Also, White Water Summer is my favorite Kevin Bacon/Eddie From Growing Pains/Douglas From Charles in Charge collaboration.
Yeah, but they had something planned with Mr. Belding first and they talked him out of that to go rafting with his brother. Then the brother bailed on them. It’s a double bail.
I’ll assume “meats” is not a typo.
/Sandusky liked to meat the Boy Scouts.
Cub Scouts get bent out of shape when you cling to their members. Or so I’ve heard. From Cub Scouts.
Dude, Riggle fucking rules. He’s hilarious AND seems like a dude I’d hang out with. Other than Will Ferrell skydiving with a backpack full of dildos, he and kathryn hahn were the only good thing in The Goods. And obviously, Patton and Patrice are my idols. This still looks shitty.
Why do they keep making Riggle scream? WHY DO THEY KEEP MAKING HIM SCREAM???
Because he got his dick shot off.
Who does that?
PAAOW POW POW
Don’t forget, nobody tells DJ Request what to play!
cheese whiz?
The only thing I took away from this is that it reminded me that Patrice O’Neal is still dead.
True.
I still listen to his O&A bits and nearly piss myself laughing. He was simply the funniest guy on earth.
This is his Raul Julia/M. Bison moment. *sadface*
Yeh, I get the feeling that a bunch of comedians said, “Wouldn’t it be cool to work together?” but didn’t bother to read the script.
I love Patton. This is definitely something I accidentally stumble across on cable at a later date.
Yes and yes.
I’m just going to wait patiently here for someone to explain to me why watching Johnny Knoxville get crucified isn’t worth $10.
Kinda agree with Burnsy here. I like Riggle and all, but with all his screaming and stuff it seems like he’s trying REALLY HARD TO BE FUNNY! I’M YELLING SWEAR WORDS SO YOU HAVE TO LAUGH!!!!!!!!
I think some of Rob Riggle’s best lines are things when he’s not screaming, but I’d be lying to say I don’t laugh my ass off at him screaming shit too.
I think the dude is great. The screaming is def the weakest part of his schtick, but he can usually still pull it off.
I’d like to see Rob Riggle and Ken Marino playing brothers in a movie.
Someone make that happen please.
cheese whiz
I wanna dip my balls in this idea.
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People who don’t love Patton Oswalt make me urinate a baby’s tears with disgust.
Sitting through this will give you an poopshoot like a tube of circus peanuts.
Red band trailers should always have boobs in them, like this one.
Looks like they finally green-lit “Rape Stove”.