Spring Breakdown (2009/Warner Premiere DVD)

 

Picture: C+     Sound: C+     Extras: C     Film: C

 

 

Amy Poehler and Rachel Dratch from Saturday Night Live join Parker Posey in the formula, often unfunny, would-be comedy Spring Breakdown, a straight-to-video 2009 releases via Warner Premiere that is part of the tired cycle of mocking anything good from the 1960s to 1980s, then goes on and is more dumb than anything else.  The Larry Kennar/Rick Berg/Ryan Shiraki script is very self-amused and this is a wreck.

 

The trio plays a trio of friends since childhood who were always geeks and now in their 30s, still are, so they suffer in a non-geek world.  Too bad they are boring and Amber Tamblyn, Seth Meyers and Missi Pyle joining them do not make this any funnier and though these women are talented, they are lost here.  Shiraki also directs, if you can call it that and at 84 minutes, it just seems too long.

 

The anamorphically enhanced 1.78 X 1 image looks like an HD shoot and has flat colors and limited detail, plus some motion blur.  The Dolby Digital 5.1 mix is dialogue and supposedly joke oriented so it is limited to the front speakers.  Extras include a lame audio commentary track, gag reel and additional scenes of no importance.

 

 

-   Nicholas Sheffo