Weirdsville

Offbeat slacker comedy Weirdsville comes from the director of cult movies like Pump up the Volume and Empire Records. It follows two drug-hazed losers (Speedman and Bentley) who, on a wintry night in Ontario, must find money to pay off a hoodlum dealer, bury their best friend who's died of an overdose, escape from a satanist trio and keep clear of a group of manic marauding dwarves dressed up as vikings. It's a film aptly titled. Moyle's comedy tries to find humour in the freaky reactions given by the leads to the unexpected and our reluctant heroes luckily don't take life too seriously, which is also the best way to approach this film. It's well edited and the performances are reasonable but it doesn't make you laugh as much as Moyle might have hoped, and would have benefited from a sharper and less busy screenplay. [Matt Arnoldi]