From the new Valentine's Day DVD "viewer reactions" track

After being “the growly-voiced guy who lit a chair on fire” for a good 20 years, Bobcat Goldthwait is enjoying a well-deserved new reputation as a guy who makes sharp, dark comedies. His latest, God Bless America, stars Joel Murray as a guy with a brain tumor who gets fed up and starts murdering reality TV stars. The trailer shows a Bad Girls-style show in which the stars actually throw poop at each other. Mmm, that’s my kind of satire.

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This is the latest trailer for World’s Greatest Dad, written and directed by Bobcat Goldthwait and starring Robin Williams.  It made the festival rounds to pretty good reviews earlier this year and will get a theatrical release beginning August 21st. If you don’t want to wait that long, it’ll also be available on On Demand starting this week.

When his son dies in the throes of autoerotic asphyxiation, dad (Williams) makes it look like a suicide and proceeds to use it to launch his own writing career. [Cinematical]

Robin Williams is at his best when he isn’t overtly trying to be funny, and in light of David Carradine’s death, the autoerotic asphyxiation plot seems practically choked from the headlines.  I mean, most directors would STRANGLE themselves for a STROKE of luck like that.  Anyway, I hope to see this and get a review up some time in the next couple weeks, if I’m not too busy choking myself while I masturbate.

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World’s Greatest Dad was written and directed by Bobcat Goldthwait and stars Robin Williams, so you’re probably not going to believe me when I say this, but it looks awesome.  The (red-band) trailer begins with a girl reading a haiku about her period, continues with scheisse porn references, and without giving too much away, the plot supposedly involves an auto-erotic asphyxiation accident. I’d been hoping I’d get to re-use that tag.  Now, I know there are people out there who will try to tell you clean comedy is somehow more impressive or better than that which deals with sex or bodily functions, but I’m here to tell you that those people eat farts and have ambiguous genitals.

(I’m including a couple more copies of the same trailer below, in case the YouTube version gets taken down).

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