Postal (2007)

Ok, let me first go ahead and make everyone aware of something before reading this review:

THIS FILM WAS DIRECTED BY UWE BOLL....YES, THAT UWE BOLL.

Now that that fact has been put out there, read this: Postal is pretty damn good.

The film is based on the PC game, Postal 2. The video game was a first person shooter in which you played The Postal Dude. You live in a trailer, have an enormously overweight wife who is cheating on you, and you live in a desert town in the middle of nowhere that is called "Paradise". In the game, you could go about your regular errands in town, or you could accomplish them while massacring anyone you wanted in the most brutal and inventive of ways.

The film is similar. Zach Ward (Scut Furkus - A Christmas Story) plays the Dude. He lives in a trailer in Paradise with his disgustingly overweight wife. He's recently unemployed and is having a tough time getting a new job. Basically, things suck hard for him.

One day he comes home to find his wife getting it on with someone else from the trailer park. At that point, he goes to see his uncle (Dave Foley - Kids In The Hall / Newsradio). Uncle Dave runs a religious cult that is basically just a scam for him to get laid by extremely hot women. He's currently in debt to the IRS, and is looking for a way out. He and The Dude decide to hijack a shipment of Krotchy dolls and sell them at an enormous price.

See, Krotchy is the star of the biggest kids show in the world. The character is basically a penis and testicles that walks and talks. The character is voiced by Verne Troyer who also appears in the film.

Their plan to steal the dolls is a good idea, but they don't realize that Osaba and the Taliban are residing in Paradise as well. They have a evil plan for the dolls, and are on a quest to steal them as well. All of this leads up to an enormous amount of weapons, children getting mowed down by bullets, and Uwe Boll himself getting shot in the balls.

The film is comedy of the lowest brow form, but it's fun.....hell, it's a LOT of fun. Uwe shows up and plays himself as the owner of an amusement park fashioned to look like Germany. It gives the man to make fun of himself and even admit that his films are funded by Nazi gold. He even pays Verne Troyer for his showing up at the amusement park by handing him gold teeth.

I knew the film was going to be interesting when the film starts out with two terrorists that have taken over a plane. They are in the cockpit, talking about how they are looking forward to the virgins only to find that Osama has told each of them that they will receive a different number of virgins. It all leads to a phone call to Osama, and a change of plans to go to the Bahamas right before being taken over by the passengers.

Tasteless? Yes. Fun? Yes. Uwe Boll's best film? Without a doubt.

Boll has been getting progressively better at making films. Here, he shows that maybe he should be making offensive comedies in a Troma sort of vein. The man actually does a damn good comedy. It's not for everyone. It sets out to offend every since race and religion out there, and it does a good job of each. Since everyone is equally ripped on, the film becomes an almost transcendent satire.

The film accurately holds the tone of the videogame. It does feel like a Postal videogame, and Boll should be applauded for such. If you're in the mood for something absolutely trashy, but fun, then give it a try. I have a feeling you won't be disappointed.

Be warned though, I never wanted to see Dave Foley completely naked. Sadly, there is a scene, about 5 minutes in length that has the man bearing all, and it's not anything anyone ever needs to see.