On Edge
Picture:
B- Sound: B- Extras: D Film: D
Unfunny. Unfunny.
That is the only way to describe the would-be comedy On Edge (2003), which wants to do for
would-be figure skaters what Christopher Guest has done for Metal Bands (This Is Spinal Tap), Folk Music (A Mighty Wind) and doing competitions (Best In Show). Unfortunately, it is a very thin attempt to
even come close to working.
Co-writer/director
Karl Slovin even seems to have a screenplay that is quite dated, if references
to long-dead TV series like Hard Copy
are any indication. The cast includes
Jason Alexander playing a Zamboni operator who seems too much like Jason
Alexander. John Glover, Scott Hamilton,
Wendie Malick and Kathy Griffin are also wasted in a feature film that seems
like a bad telefilm as bad sitcom that happens to be verbally crude enough to
get an R-rating. This is so beyond
unfunny, I cannot say the word enough.
What were they thinking? Throw
together anything and make a quick buck.
It bombed, a performance it will repeat on DVD when the word gets out.
The
anamorphically enhanced 1.85 X 1 image is not very sharp and color is either
bleeding or substandardly odd. The shots
look more like a “Weird Al” Yankovic music Video (his Headline News song and video spoofed the Crash Test Dummies Hmm Hmm Hmm Hmm, including the Nancy
Kerrigan figure skating fiasco), which you are much better off watching on the new DVD
of his videos. The sound is Dolby
Digital 2.0 Stereo with some Pro Logic surrounds. They even cut corners on the sound and the
jokes are not worth hearing, so who cares.
Useless extras include deleted scenes, also all unfunny, and the cast
trying to explain how funny the film is.
Liars!!!
There are
times that if you have nothing nice to say, do not say anything at all. I broke that rule, but if I went on,
obscenities could not improve this review, the film, or the waste of time
already experienced, so just make sure to skip this bomb.
- Nicholas Sheffo
