Temple grads master absurdist comedy in short bursts
TEMPLE GRADS and local-boys-make-good Tim Wareheim and Eric Heidecker are masters of the absurdist comedy in short bursts.
TEMPLE GRADS and local-boys-make-good Tim Wareheim and Eric Heidecker are masters of the absurdist comedy in short bursts.
Their contributions to Cartoon Network's "Adult Swim," and FunnyOrDie.com have won them a small but disturbed following.
In "Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie," they try stretching their brand to feature length, starring as numbskull versions of themselves in a story of two would-be filmmakers who blow a large sum of studio money on a failed movie, then go into hiding at a rundown shopping mall, hired out as managers.
The mall is a way-off-the-interstate affair, so beset by financial troubles it looks like the post-apocalypse. There are cameos - Will Ferrell as a crooked mall exec, John C. Reilly as a diseased maintenance man. There's even a role for Twink Caplan, who played Miss Toby Geist in "Clueless" - here she's an older woman on whom Wareheim has an improbable crush.
"Billion Dollar Movie" has been available on VOD for some weeks now, and you can already find lively online fan debates about "Billion," They can be an acquired taste. In "Billion Dollar Movie," it's a taste you may un-acquire at about the 30 minute mark.
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