Postal [2008] [DVD]

This is it!.. Uwe Boll gives a BIG F.U. to Hollywood!..
And i loved ewery minute of it. Zack Ward comes of nicely, as a fresh new Cult-Hero. and Nothing! is hush-hush with this "Baby". So if you can stand to watch some good clean famely intertainment, with a lot of Taliban jokes, ein bichen Nazi fun, Mini-Me getting F'ed in the Butox by a chimp?.... Then maby this' is just the ticket for you.

I never played the video game, but I watched Postal anyway. There is a certain hard black humor throughout the film, which some folks might find revolting, so if you're easily offended and don't like morbid black humor and lots of kills, AVOID. Of course it's a no-brainer, but far better than any American Pie-crap that got thrown at us, this one actually is FUNNY. Also is Uwe Boll's only watchable film up to date.

Uwe Boll is bad. He is always bad. He has never done anything good. And here he seems to think it's ok for him to join in on the jokes and snide comments we were all trying dilligently to say behind his back. I find it sad enough that he's been included in the new postal III release, because it may be a sign that it, just like this film has been given the 'Saint's Row the Third' treatment of shoving big, garish christmas lights in your face with the words 'OMG LOOK HOW WACKY WE'RE BEING WE'RE TOTALLY WACKY AREN'T WE, WE MUST BE REALLY SPECIAL' embalzoned across them, much in the same manner of girls just turning 18 newly finding their way into pubs in which they're really don't belong. Another reviewer has rightly said the comedy feels forced, but it is more than this, and very hard to capture the essence of. Most of the lines feel like they were fed through some sort of mediocre comedy machine that specialises in jumping the shark to such an extent that I'm not even sure the shark is aware of what's happening, or at least written by the kind of insipid morons who are tasked to write pefunctory schedule-filling American sitcoms like Hope and Grace.
The film does, however, have some occasional moments that really shine, and did make me belly-laugh in spite of the loathing I feel for its imaginitively impecunious creator. There was a brilliant scene where a whole load of children are shot and killed in the crossfire at a toy parade or something, which was delivered in such a stupid-yet-realistic fashion that it really spoke to me about the nature of films today. I hate children. Why do they always have to be unrealistically written to survive situations they have no business surviving? That aside, I'm not sure how much this has to do with the old monkeys plus typewriters equals several poo-clogged typewriters and maybe a Bin Laden joke that might result in a short release of air from the nostrils that one might generously call a laugh.
A great example of its comedic failings is in its 'homage' (to be read with the same bilious tone that one might use to refer to Mary Whitehouse) to Postal II in which Postal Dude (who, by the way, could not have got the voice and character of Postal Dude more wrong) uses cats as silencers, but when in the film this happens and Postal Dude is done with it, it just happily pads away as if a bullet hadn't just passed through its digestive system 'as the crow flies'. It's not funny because it's just a childish way of things happening. This is the only piece of media I know that makes 9/11 jokes no longer edgy but just kind of stupid, in the manner of a 12 year-old writing on the internet, thinking to be comedy gold the idea of 'HEY WHAT IF THE 9/11 TERRORISTS WERE KIND OF STUPID LOLOLOLOL'. There's no excuse for it in professional cinema, but I guess I'm just bitter because I didn't think this would be an Uwe Boll release when I bought it. My suggestion would be to find where Uwe Boll is and politely taser him until he agrees to stop. Just, stop. God knows Germany doesn't need more things to apologise for.

Also, it's probably worth giving a look so long as you don't pay for it because it does have relatively frequent female nuditiy. Go nuts.