Over the top comedy co-directed by Alex Winter. With Alex Winter, Brooke Shields, Mr. T and (uncredited) Keanu Reeves 86min imdb
Recap:
So there is this aging child actor (played by aging child actor Alex “Bill” Winter) who wants some money and agrees to shill a toxic chemical. Together with his one man entourage and a hot environmentalist he soon finds himself imprisoned in a freak show, turned into freak himself by the toxic chemical he agreed to shill.
After Bill & Ted 2 Keanu Reeves played Johnny Mnemonic, John Constantine, John Wick and John Neo, while Alex Winter started to direct TV shows, music videos and even a few movies, including Freaked, which wasn’t a hit and certainly didn’t help his career. But is it any good? Yes, it is. For example it is clearly better than Bill & Ted 1. Is it also better than Bill & Ted 2? Let me think. Bill & Ted were funny mainly because the characters were so silly and over the top, and in Freaked there a so many more characters that are silly and over the top. The whole movie is an attempt to one-up Bill & Ted, and maybe it’s not a good idea to try too hard, because you risk to lose your playfulness. Also, both Bill and Ted were the “pure fools”, dumb as dung but completely innocent at heart, while this hero starts his journey as a sellout. So while this one seems to have more of everything, I still believe that I like Bill & Ted 2 better, but that’s not final until I watch it (B&T2) again. But then, a movie can be not as good as Bill & Ted 2 and still be totally excellent. So this Freaked is very good and definitively recommended.
Movie 78min
Trailer
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