Whitech It is not only a funny movie, but it allows a great amount of joy for anyone who watches it.

Donald Seymour This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Portia Hilton Blistering performances.

Staci Frederick Blistering performances.

thornton-michael I just finished watching this turd of a movie and want the last two hours of my life back. Seriously, all I learned was that the Slasher likes beer and he's annoying as fa-wk. Clearly the guy is tweaked out of his mind the vast majority of this movie. I could've made a better documentary about the people that hustle at car-washes. The only good part of the movie was laughing at all the morons that actually fell for the $88 car ploy,I kept expecting Eddie Murphy to jump out yelling "Hercules, Hercules" during a couple of these scenes. Only other scene of note, in between the mundane drivel like showing the Slasher take a urination, was the white guy that sounds JUST LIKE the Ladies Man. I kept expecting him to say, "Yeah that's nice" and ask for someone to pass him the Courvoisier. Next time I consider becoming a used cars salesman I'm going to have someone kick me in the larynx so maybe I can become as good as the Slasher at slashing the price. There are only two parts of the DVD that make it a little less of a time drain than watching it on TV. The extra's menu with the still of the as hat trying to "cut" the price list with the fake chainsaw was humorous, and the scene where the Slasher is clearly rolling a joint. That tells you how great the extra content on the DVD is...Despite the IFC seal of approval DON'T WATCH THIS POS!

anhedonia Michael Bennett, the titular character in John Landis' documentary, is a free-lance car salesman who travels the country helping car dealerships boost their sales on particular weekends by, you guessed it, slashing prices.Apparently Bennett's very good at this and he puts on a carnival barker-like show that is in turns funny, hectic, tiring and obnoxious. Watching Bennett do his shtick exhausts the viewer because this chap runs like a fast-paced motor without an off-switch. The problem is Landis films just one weekend in Bennett's life - when the "Slasher" travels to a dealership in Memphis, Tenn., "the bankruptcy capital of the world." In an interview on IFC, Landis said he initially planned to make a documentary about the effects of President Bush's economic policies, but wound up going in a different direction when he met Bennett.Landis lets us peek at some of the inner workings of Bennett and his two friends - a DJ and a "mercenary" salesman. We get to see them work the crowd, as well as hear their asides when interviewing young women for the weekend gig (some of their comments are a bit cruel) and reacting to customers' comments (we see how they manipulate customers).But as engaging as Bennett is - a wound-up beer-guzzling machine who also is a loving husband and father - a little bit of him goes a long way, a very long way. If Landis wanted to capture one weekend in Bennett's life, a documentary short would have sufficed.For a feature, we need to see more, not more of the same thing, which is what we get here. Landis should have spent more time with Bennett's wife, who sees her husband two days a week. We see only a few snippets of Bennett with his family and it would have made for great cinema. Also, seeing whether Bennett changed from city to city, whether his routine varied depending on the economic and geographic conditions of the area, would have made for a better story.And two crucial questions Landis does not even raise, much less answer, are how did Bennett get into this business and why does he do it? Yes, the money's great, but is there something else that draws Bennett to do this, to be away from his family for five days per week, especially when he says he'd like to be home with them? We never find out what attracts Bennett to this job.Although it runs under 90 minutes, "Slasher" seems like it's about 30 minutes too long. Many scenes seem redundant and at the end of the film we don't know much more about Bennett than we did in the first few minutes. It's still worth a look, though.

Besmircher I too saw this movie on IFC recently and was drawn in immediately, mostly because I've recently moved to Memphis. The "Slasher" is definitely the type of character you love to hate. A 24/7 drunk who's real high stems from his ego. Completely self-absorbed and so full of his own crap that he doesn't see the obvious disdain others have for him (dealership manager, his own DJ, etc). The fast-talking sleazeball versus the economically-challenged (and uneducated) masses. However there is no clear winner in my view because the masses are duped yet again and the lemon-pusher doesn't exactly get away with all the money. No Hollywoodized tragedy here, just the reality of the way things are in the used...ehem, "preowned"...car business. Buyer beware!

reeelcobra This movie is a naked, in-your-face look at the mysterious world of used car salesmen. I loved the way Landis combined the stark reality of the life of an on-the-road traveling salesman with the desperate humor that guys living on commission seem to possess.Mike Bennet comes off as smart, driven and someone who likes beer too much.If you like Glen Gary, Glen Ross, and Used Cars you'll love this.The film is cut to an amazing blues score, and is crisp and terribly funny and terribly sad.