Bill-16
Not sure what some so called 'fans' where thinking or expecting, but this movie was like their best TV Skits on Steroids.I read many reviews and think maybe they are just goofs. If you liked any of their Adult Swim TV you will love this movie.I admit that about 1 in 10 of their skits just don't do anything for me. I don't get it or maybe it just didn't work and they aired it anyway. I think that is normal and both the guys probably would take 1 in 10 as a compliment since they are so over the top bizarre.If you are a Tim and Eric fan or just a fan of the Alternative World, you really need to see this movie.John C Reilly is one of the most talented actors in the world. He has done some serious acting that is better than good and his comedy characters are just Way Too F****** Funny!
Adam Foidart
"Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie" is a juvenile, often disgusting attempt at comedy that knows it isn't funny and doesn't even try to be. The plot is razor thin and is simply an excuse to tie a few loosely developed sketch ideas together and to pad out the film to its 1hr and 34 minute running time. Nevertheless, it goes something like this: Two idiots (Tim and Eric) are given a Billion dollars by the Schlaaang Corporation to make a movie but waste it all on such things such as a suit made of diamonds and a spiritual adviser who is paid by the millions. To make things worse, the film is only a few minutes long (most of the footage was unusable) and the actor that was hired to star in the film is in fact a Johnny Depp impersonator. Outraged after seeing the film, the president of the Schlaaang Corporation demands that Tim (Tim Heidecker) and Eric (Eric Wareheim) pay them back, or else. Desperate, the two run away until they see an ad where a man named Damien Weebs (Will Ferrell) claims that his mall in S'wallow Valley needs managers and that if someone can successfully run it, they will make a billion dollars. Eric also spots a woman in the ad named Katie (Twink Caplan) and instantly falls in love with her (carrying a picture of her with him wherever he goes and furiously masturbating to her at night). Determined to make their money back (and in Eric's case get the girl of his dreams) the two make their way to the mall. Unfortunately, the mall is a mess. Most of the stores are doomed to fail, like a spiritual healing center that worships the Shrim gods, a sword and knife store that makes its profits by keeping swords and knives off the street, a used toilet paper discount warehouse and Katie's booth, which sells celebrity lookalikes made from balloons. The mall is also filled with garbage, homeless people and is terrorized by a man-eating wolf. If they can run the mall successfully, our "heroes" might be able to pay the Schlaaang company back, but that's going to be easier said than done and, if they get spotted by their former employer prior to earning the cash, they will be executed without remorse.This is the cinematic equivalent of sitting in a bathtub while little children fill it with their diarrhea. Oh wait, not only is this the movie the equivalent of that mental picture, but what I described is also one of the most "memorable" scenes in the movie (intercut with another character participating in one of the lamest gag sex scenes ever). At the beginning I had such low expectations I was kind of laughing but this drove itself into 0 star territory within 15 minutes of the opening credits. Endless gross-out jokes that weren't funny, characters so stupid that if there was any justice in the world they would get set on fire and then eaten alive by sharks, a nonsensical plot with a cheap cop-out ending make it a painful experience. As the cherry on the vomit sundae, the film is built on this ridiculous concept non-comedy. It all swirls together to makes this one of the worst, if not THE worst comedy I've ever seen. Some of the "jokes" included are: people awkwardly masturbating, obsessions with "Top Gun", two men bathing together, penis piercings, the same words being repeated over and over and cheap special effects. The movie tries to be so unfunny that it becomes funny again, daring the audience not to laugh by saying "Hey, isn't it funny that everything on the screen isn't funny? What kind of fool are you coming into this comedy expecting to find jokes, clever setups and punch lines?" To make things worse, the film is not only abysmal, but it's unmemorable and often cringe-inducing so even if you knew how torturous of an experience sitting through this disaster would be ahead of time, you can't make fun of it on a "so bad, it's good" level.If you are a fan of the show Tim and Eric star in, there is a chance you might enjoy it, but overall it establishes itself as complete garbage very quickly and goes downhill from there. "Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie" is a complete waste of time and there are probably some people out there that will disagree with me, but I strongly suspect that the only reason they enjoy it is because they have it playing on a loop in their basement as a mental torture device for their worst enemies. (Dvd, September 30, 2012)
InjunNose
The format is different, of course, but the absurd, sometimes almost intolerably hilarious brand of comedy that Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim delivered in five seasons of "Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!" hasn't changed a bit. The expansion of their unusual style from short, eleven-minute bursts to feature film length obviously constitutes an experiment, and as such it's inconsistent. But is this a funny movie? God, yes! (The scene in which Tim has enthusiastic but hysterically awkward sex with Twink Caplan while Eric gets Shrimmed should separate the true fans from the "X and Y were funny, but Z went entirely too far" types. This reviewer laughed 'til he cried.) Shooting "Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie" at a real ghost mall (Desert Fashion Plaza in Palm Springs) was a brilliant touch, planting the film smack in the middle of the chintzy '80s wasteland that's always been such an important part of the Tim and Eric aesthetic. 7 and 1/2 stars.
zeroangelshadow
this movie was just Awful, I wasted my time watching it, I use to watch Tom goes to the Mayor. and I could stand that.After watching this.. I want my time back. I'm glad it was free on netflix at the time of this review.I won't suggest anyone to watch this trainwreck, there was too many scenes that didn't make sense. And not even funny. They tried way to hard to be funny. And they just weren't. They were done with Acting before this movie even came out.I pray there isn't gonna be another junk film by these 2.How they got other actors? Is beyond me. I'd like to know myself. this actually ruined me watching anything else from them. Ever.And I watch so much crap on netflix.. Yet this has to be one of the worst movies i've seen.. Even most b Movies are funnier than this pile of garbage.
