You Might As Well Live (2009)

Highly Overrated But Still Good

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Male nudity (hey, there's no gratuitous female nudity for once!), bondage, sex toys, guns, mental institutions, drugs, transvestites, insanity, catatonia, and crime are topics you don't want to see, don't watch it. And you're probably not going to show it to your kids.The lighting is a bit questionable, but the acting is not! I find this one of the funniest movies I've seen in a long time. It is black humour at very high level. Clearly many rank it very low. I bought the DVD as a remainder when Blockbuster went bankrupt. Every time I watch it, I love it!

Not only is this film disgusting, offensive and vulgar, but it's also just plain dumb. I mean c'mon, isn't a naked nerd getting called a pedophile and chased by an equally pedophilic clown just a little bit juvenile? I don't mean to sound like a prude or a snob, but penis jokes and sex jokes stopped being funny when I was in the ninth grade. Mental hospitals and lazy stereotypes of the many patients within one just aren't funny to me. Neither is a man having a sexual fetish for paralyzed and disabled people. Have I missed something here? The one and only scene I really enjoyed in this film was the one where a psychologist and a patient have an air hockey match and the orderlies are placing bets. Julian Richings is an excellent actor, I don't know why on earth he'd sign up to be in a film like this one. With its Troma style, its lame jokes and its cheap digital footage that looks like Toronto stock footage shots, 'You Might As Well Live' is I think one of the worst things I've seen in quite some time.

Robert Mutt is NOT a douche!!! Seriously, and as one may plainly see, it's the neighbors and just about all the others giving Robert Mutt a bad time. OK, Robert's really, really, really, really dumb. But at least he's not a mean spirited, dishonest, ignoble miscreant as most of the people portrayed in this film; with some notable exceptions!Robert Mutt is not too smart!!! Seriously, if he was, he might not be so kind towards the previously mentioned neighbors and others giving Robert Mutt a bad time. -------STORY w/SPOILERS-------- Nobody is going to spoil this movie for you no matter what they write because this kooky low budget movie is over the top. *Some* angry or boorish folk may not like it; certainly the vulgar vernacular throughout warrants strict parental advisory consideration (not for children), but for you guys and gals out there that like really funny strange humor, this movie delivers some serious absurdities and played well enough to make you lol many times over. I liked it! Robert Mudd, what a character...

Can't remember the last time I saw a money that could only fit in the Comedy genre that did not once make me laugh. This movie is testicles in your face and semen in your mouth.The "jokes" in this movie are so stupid and unfunny that it would take someone as dumb as the lead character to crack a smile. Speaking of which, he is probably one of the worst comedic stars to appear in any film. His whole shtick is apparently that he has a Midwestern accent. And that he is stupid. If you think a movie about a character like that would make you crack up, then maybe they ought to stick you in the insane asylum.The apparent "funny" scenes with this character are when he gets in situations he isn't ready to deal with. This would include S&M parties, in a tent with a naked woman, and on drugs. There are not actual jokes that take place in these scenes. Its just the main character acting like an ass with his dumb accent.This movie has some strange fetish with showing paralyzed people. They play off the joke of the paralyzed only able to utter monotonic sounds like "uuuuuuuuurgh" and the main character is somehow able to decipher this into 30 second statements. The joke is so stupid I feel like I've dropped a couple IQ points just describing it. But, this jokes occurs at least 5 times in the movie without variation.The only other things I remember are the main character running through the town naked with his junk out. I'm assuming this was a fake thing he was wearing, but I wasn't really looking close enough to tell. The color composition is similar to one of the classic horror movie remakes. Everything is high contrast and usually has some yellowish or blue tint to it. I guess this is the only good and honest thing about the film. This is of course because the film would probably do better as putting itself in the horror genre than the comedy genre. Not only because of some of the disgusting scenes in the movie, but the pain that the viewer has to go through to get through this 78 minute epoch of pain.