DRIB (2017)

DRIB: Directed by Kristoffer Borgli. With Amir Asgharnejad, Brett Gelman, Adam Pearson, Annie Hamilton. The inside story of an energy drink marketing ploy gone wrong.

“This is the most fun Iu0026#39;ve had during a movie in some time. As a mostly reconstructive documentary based on some anonymous people, the film has the freedom to get creative. The characters and situations are very exaggerated and very amusing. Everyone is well acted and well cast and the character of Brady was surprisingly well developed. This is also a very funny movie. There is a healthy mix of visual gags, crude jokes, cringe comedy and surreal humor that keeps the film constantly entertaining. This film also had the freedom of having some interesting directing. The director clearly has a good grasp on how to use film language to enhance a scene and how to build a unique visual and auditory style, even though whatu0026#39;s at work is pretty obvious. The film lacks subtlety, with most of what is being offered being on the surface level. The characters, jokes and directing are quite evident throughout. The story is more restrained and does offer some interesting ideas, though Iu0026#39;m not certain those ideas are meant to cohere into a theme. But itu0026#39;s hard to complain when, like the main characteru0026#39;s performance artistry stunts, the main motivation is clearly to entertain by any means necessary, and any subtext is secondary to that, and I was definitely entertained.”