Film Summary DLXXVIII (Back by Midnight)


Have you ever thought to yourself that you're just too happy. Or that your day was just going swimmingly.
Well maybe you want to make your day worse, perhaps you want to deep-seated depression to come over your body as you realize you made a horrible mistake.
I've got the answer for you. Pop this film on in.
I guarantee you'll be feeling miserable within minutes.

Now I'll be fair I wasn't expecting anything great from a Rodney Dangerfield film in the early 2000s.
I thought maybe we'd get a weird prison hijinx movie. Rodney's one of the inmates he wants to escape the prison or he just has really weird Adventures while in the prison.
You know a slapdash comedy involving one of America's biggest problems.
But instead we get this prison film where Rodney Dangerfield is the warden and he's having budgetary problems as the guy who provides him with money for his private prison doesn't want to finance them anymore.
And wants to turn the entire prison system into a glorified slave labour force to provide Factory workers to assist in emerging operation between his convenience store outlets and some weird British nobility.

Do you want perverted Antics with a sex doll, perhaps jokes mocking people who have dwarfism. Maybe you just want to make fun of rednecks, homosexuality or anything else you can really think of.
Do you want some gratuitous nudity for no good reason.
You'll find it here.
It just gets worse as time goes on there's this horrible segment with a monkey that involves bodily fluids and smashing up a room. Alongside really cheap child is jokes and badly written screenplays.

The worst part about this film is the potential. You have the star power the comedic talents what looks to be an okay budget and a film crew that knows what they're doing.
Everything was here to make an okay movie. Maybe nothing breathtaking but at least something you could enjoy.
All we end up with is this low-hanging fruit of a film filled with every miserable cliche that should have been thrown out the window entertainment 20 years ago from the state of film.

I can't even recommended if you were Rodney Dangerfield fan. His comedy is nothing special and he become strangely absent for out a good chunk of it.
Do yourself a favour and just look up some of the stand up or maybe watch that cartoon flick where he's a dog.
Anything's got to be better than this.

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