Holy god! Can comedy get any funnier? I am an absolutely enormous Kids in the Hall fan and although at first this movie didn't strike me as a "Kids" masterpiece like their series was I soon came to realize that the reason I was somewhat disappointed was because I didn't get to see appearances from the legendary "Head-Crusher" or "Buddy" but once I kept watching past the first few minutes and got to catch a glimpse at the classic Don character and of course who can forget Bruce McCulloch as Cancer Boy? So if you don't get to see some classic head crushing bits, what do you get to see? Well, I'm going to answer my own question. You get to see Michael McDonald finding the formula for "happy," Bruce McColloch rockin' out to Happiness Pie and giving us an amazing "Whistle if You're Loved" performance, Mark McKinney playing one of my favorite characters (Don), Dave Foley's awkward moment as the New Scientist, and Scott Thompson dressed up as an old lady spinning around in a giant and pointless testing machine.Probably my favorite scene in the entire movie is Chris Cooper's flash back to his depressed father coming home from working and having trouble shooting himself (which he finally does after 2-hours worth of tries). And then of course there is the kiss shared by Michael McDonald and Bruce McCulloch at the end of the movie.But does this mean that the Kids have strayed away from their roots? Of course not! There is still plenty of cross-dressing, jokes about business men, jokes about Scott Thompson's sexuality, and of course, many absurdly random moments (bird flying into Bruce McCulloch's eye).So if you are a Kids in the Hall fan or a patient diagnosed with depression there is no way you can miss this absolutely hilarious, clever, absurd, and well-written performance by our friends from up North. I can safely say this is classic comedy worthy of Groucho Marx Level praise.WATCH IT!

"It'll make you laugh, it'll make you cry, and maybe - just maybe - you'll learn something about yourself..." ...Seriously!This movie just blew me away on so many levels. First level: Being a longtime fan of the Kids and getting to see many familiar characters once again was a gas. Not to mention some of the new ones they cooked up for the film. Second level: As an exercise in the absurd (Cancer Boy, the gay guy coming out in a big neighbourhood production number, the German psychiatrist). Next level: Satire and stereotype (the CEO screaming, "MY... EMPIRE... IS... CRUUUMMMMBLINNGG!", the punk rocker, the talkshow hostess). Yet another level: Makes a HUGE statement about the corporate-media-industrial complex and its usurpation of contemporary culture and mores. And so on, and so on...Finally, the film, while purporting to be a comedy masking itself as a tragedy (or is it the other way round?) and beneath that pretending to send a negative message about the human condition (like the cabbie says, "This is not a happy story"), manages to have a positive message as well.This movie is an enigma. And as such it's basically indescribable: It'll move you in about six different directions at once. And it might even make you think about a few things.If you've never seen it, get out and rent the bloody thing already.

Certainly one of the few excellent films that I have seen David Foley in. I saw this, quite by chance, on television and I was amazed that I had not even heard of a film this good. It is several years since I saw it, and 8 since it was made, but this is truly worth seeing.The plot is fairly run-of-the-mill comedic insanity, but the characters are what truly makes this so fun. The writing is very very good and I think complaints of bad language are bizarre in the context of this movie, because if you don't like the language how are you going to enjoy the sentiment...One character's key fantasy is being "sent in" to bugger enemy soldiers on maneouvres.My favourite scene is the brainstorming session with the Ultra-Cool A**hole Advertising Executive who comes up with their slogan.

I really like the the kids in the hall show but this movie is not funny at all. I thought that because the guys that were in kids in the hall were in it and because they wrote it that it would be hillarious but it was really boring. If they do make another movie I hope that it is nothing like this one. I would not recommend this movie to anybody.