Braindead Candy

Strangers With Candy (3/5 stars)

A prequel to the Comedy Central series of the same name, Strangers With Candy tells the story of a former abuser of every vice imaginable who decides to start her life over from where she went bad and starts again back in high school while she must be close to fifty years old. She does this because while she was in prison her father went into a coma and for some absurd reason everyone believes that if she succeeds he will come out of it. There is the obvious "she doesn't fit in" plot contrivances, and of course a special task (the science fair) which she feels she must win in order to save her dad.

This is a pretty braindead, baseless, stupid movie. But you know what? It's actually still fairly good. It is a guilty pleasure kind of thing I suppose. Amy Sedaris as the lead character and Stephen Colbert as a teacher at her school (one particular subplot with him and another teacher at the school is particularly funny) are both hilarious in their roles. The humor is so blatantly idiotic that you can't help but laughing sometimes.

So if you're in the mood to laugh at something completely stupid, I recommend picking this up on DVD when it is out. I don't think it is good enough for a theater visit, I happened to go see it because I was out and about and planning on seeing other stuff later and the theater where I was going to see a foreign movie called Three Times had a damaged print and it was necessary to kill time.