aha yes.
My first problem would be poor writing. The only time I couldn't predict the jokes was when it was just OMG SOOOO RANDOM LOL. Hey the Cowboy likes Twinkies, how quirky and zany is that! Oh, let's cut into some gut-wrenchingly mawkish sentimental bullshit about characters it is almost impossible to care about. Then let's have those fucking rules pop up like the most hideous fucking visual conceit of the year (which they were). Don't bother about where to put those rules, there'll be plenty of space owing to the way the entire movie is shot like a conservatively lit episode of the OC. Yeah, the slow motion shots were pretty. Unfortunately my folks have a plasma screen HDTV that recieves the discovery channel, giving me an opportunity to watch Time Warp fairly regularly, so it was hardly an original treat. I was actually pretty stoked through the credits sequence, but it was a huge rollercoaster of dissapointment from then on. What it ended up kind of reminding me of, especially with the awful, grating, so hip and self-fucking-conscious voiceover, was a feature length episode of Scrubs with zombies. Now, that's not all bad. I can think of a few situations where I might watch Scrubs. For example say my entire body is paralysed but I'm in the room with it on. Or say Mike Tyson threatens to anally violate me with an MG-42 if I don't watch some Scrubs. This movie wasn't really as crap as scrubs, but it was depressingly mediocre, which can actually be worse. Without really glaring flaws (apart from the fucking narration), you pick apart things a good movie might have gotten away with, like the way absolutely nothing in the film makes any logical sense (In a film where the BASIC PREMISE is the guys set of survival rules). In a better film it wouldn't matter that somehow you can make an amusement park run a full month after the end of western civilisation just by flicking some switches. In this film it's just dumb. It doesn't play for the kind of comedy where you can get away with shit like that. To be honest, it barely plays to any kind of comedy at all on account of really not being that funny apart from a bunch of really standard slapstick gags that will always be pretty amusing. But anyway, yeah, probably the most dissapointing film I've seen in the cinema since The Wicker Man remake, though I have been pretty good about avoiding crap since then.
