Life Without Toast - Sibling Rivalry

"Set in a separate storyline not related to the "Trailer Park Boys" Television show, but with the same lovable characters. The boys get arrested for robbing an ATM machine and spend 18 months in jail. When the get out, they decide to pull off "The Big Dirty" which is to steal a large amount of coins because they are untraceable and quit their life of crime forever."

(From IMDB Page)

Just finished watching this on err... streaming video on some highly disreputable video site (ahem... delicious link in the sidebar... ahem...) and it's brilliant.

Well, if you're a fan of the (hilarious) adventures of the rum-and-coke drinkin', dope-smokin', smalltime crime-dealin', pot-growin', shopping cart fixin', rhyme bustin' boys from the Sunnyvale Trailer Park it's brilliant. If you've never seen the TV show, well, it doesn't really matter. You may find all the lines and smartass remarks that bit funnier if you've watched every episode of the series, and enjoyed them, several times over (like me) of course, but as the quote above says, this is a completely separate adventure from the goings on in the series (so, newbs are more than welcome to enjoy the goings-on, but you better fasten your bicycle clips, because this shit is fucked).

This necessitates some re-capping of what exactly these boys do in their free time (which is basically all the time). This is ok though, as anything that's gone over is done so briefly and concisely, leaving more room for improved, movie-quality hi-jinks from our intrepid group of misfits. This is good. We like hi-jinks.

I won't go into any of the story here, as that would absolutely ruin it. Yes, I respect the subject matter that much. I think Trailer Park Boys is one of the best things on TV, and I would place it above Shameless in the overall scumbag comedy genre, in my very humble opinion (I welcome debate on that matter too!). Suffice it to say that the boys get up to their usual brand of nonsense and hoojah-ery, they go to jail, do some crimes, eat hotdogs, Randy eats cheeseburgers, Julian always has a rum n' coke (with ice, in a glass) in his hand, you know, it's Trailer Park Boys.

And it's an hour and a half long.

And there's a couple of fairly big set-ups, and a couple of big-ish stunts.

But it's still Trailer Park Boys. And it's an hour and a half long. And that's why it's brilliant. Really, seriously, totally brilliant stuff, from start to finish. But it's not for everyone. If any of this review has put you off in any way, if words like "dope-smoking" and "pot-growing" and "crime" put you off in any way, then don't watch it. It's definitely an acquired taste, that's for sure.

(Oh, and Mr. Lahey is constantly shitface drunk as usual, and the shit-talk is totally off the richter. Here's a gem of Mr. Lahey "shit talk" for you to saviour, TPB fans)