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CHILD'S PLAY The Kids are all right -- just all right
Kids in the Hall: Dan Dion/ Retna
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Rated: Unrated; DVD Release Date: Apr 16, 2002; Genres: Comedy, Documentary; With: Dave Foley, Bruce McCulloch, Kevin McDonald, Mark McKinney and Scott Thompson
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Marc Bernardin
''This is my favorite 'Kids in the Hall' sketch: the I-don't-wanna-take-a-bus sketch.... It's like five Canadian guys on tour. They're playing five Canadian guys who can't decide if they wanna take a bus or not. It's one of the classics.... And you'll see, one of 'em's gay!'' Even though they were clearly mocking from a place of love on their guest commentary, ''South Park'''s Trey Parker and Matt Stone pretty much nail the particular lack of excitement to be found on Same Guys, New Dresses, a documentary that follows the sketch comedy troupe -- Dave Foley, Bruce McCulloch, Mark McKinney, Kevin McDonald, and Scott Thompson -- on its 2000 live tour.
The film (directed by Foley) plays like a crossbreeding of ''Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl'' and ''This Is Spi¨al Tap,'' but only if funny skips a generation. The only laughs to be found are on the guest commentaries, recorded by Kids' playmates Parker and Stone, Mike Myers, Andy Richter, and Jason Priestley -- who is presented as a fellow Canadian documentarian(!). To quote Homer Simpson: It's funny because it's true.
Posted Apr 16, 2002
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