Amy Sedaris is hilarious and she is in top form in this hilarious movie which is a prequel to a show of the same name. It's a crime that she isn't all that well known and useless talents like Amy Schumer are. The basic premise is that a 40 something woman who also happens to be an ex junkie returns to high school. Shenanigans ensue and the cast is ably supported by both known and unknown faces.

I was waiting for Stephen Colbert to produce something funny. I waited, and waited, and waited... but the only joke in the Col-bear Re-por is its name, and that got old after the first repetition. You have to be a hard-wired politics addict to find anything funny in Colbert's show - it's the sort of "satire" the idiot radio-show lieutenant in "Good Morning, Vietnam!" inflicted on people who had to be drafted to hear (aptly summed up as "your show sucks the sweat off a dead man's balls... ").Imagine my surprise, then - I'd seen a few episodes of the television series version of "Strangers," was unimpressed, but decided to give the movie version a try. I'm glad I did. The MOVIE version of "Strangers with Candy" is actually pretty funny. Not because it's an extraordinarily well-written story - but the acting talent showed up for work instead of phoning it in, the way big-name stars do so often in B-movies. To paraphrase one of the celebrity GEICO commercials, "Real actors really acting... what a concept!" This story needed to be adapted for a movie, somehow. What came over as hackneyed and lame in the series is edgy and funny in the movie. The thousand nasty little gags fit the pace of the movie much better. Even Stephen Colbert manages to be funny in this movie, something I just don't see happening in the "Re-por" (and as much as I really want to laugh at something he does on that show... it doesn't happen).There's this scarily authentic blend of nerdiness and depravity that just... works somehow. Amy Sedaris kills in a very, very bizarre role - I'm not going to spoil it if you're unfamiliar with the show's main premise, but it's really out there... and yet... it works. Just sit there and let the strangeness wash over your mind in waves.Perhaps part of the appeal of this film are the flashes of familiarity from real high school... the semi-lethal drivers' ed simulators, the teachers who missed their vocations by being born too late to work in East German reformatories, the nearly edible cafeteria food, unrequited love with unlikely objects of adoration... goofiness overlaid with multiple coats of malignancy.Watch it. Just don't admit to watching it. And wash your hands afterward.

Being in Australia (so far from most things of good taste), I was overjoyed and shocked to see the Strangers movie at the local DVD store. I didn't even think it was going to be released here.I hired it immediately, although with some trepidation.Rightly so. There were a couple of laughs but sadly the team had no idea who they were making the film for. I would argue that it WASN'T made for the fans since there were several recycled jokes that die-hard fans would have spotted and cringed at immediately."I'm not pushing you away, I am pulling me closer to myself"... you just can't re-use lines like that. Gold the first time, old the second.So in short, great cast with lacklustre plot and terrible writing. A disappointment for a SWC obsessive like myself.

I have been a long-time fan of 'strangers wit candy,' and i just rented the new movie. I guess i was expecting something different the first time i saw it (different guy, derrick, Orlando, etc.) so i didn't find it up to standards. I watched it again and found it to be pretty funny, though still not up to my expectations. After watching the deleted scenes I became a little perturbed because the deleted scenes were hilarious; just what I was expecting, but they were deleted. The movie is funny and I am going to watch it again, but I must say i have a problem with the editing, as the deleted scenes were ones that capture the true essence of 'strangers with candy'.