Top-Rated Action Comedies From Unpopular Directors Succeed in Annoying Everyone
Written by Robert Scucci | Published
Growing up, we all had that one edlord friend who said offensive things every chance he got. Their whole goal is to clear the room with what they say and do, and when you grow up, you start to distance yourself from this type of person for reasons that don't require much justification. You don't want someone like this to show up at your job and fire you, or say the wrong thing in front of your significant other because the exchange of tasteless jokes is always in the grass.
If you're looking for that guy in movie form so you can get your fill without ruining your life, you can find it in Uwe Boll's comic disaster episode, Post office (2007), which, in my opinion, is misunderstood and underappreciated.
Don't get this wrong, Post office it's problematic, suspicious, and that's the whole point. But for some reason, this does not appear as if edgelord is annoying just to appear to people, like in 2013. It's wrong Jokes. This is Boll adapting another video game series into a film, but instead of taking it too seriously and failing miserably like he did with films like Alone in the Dark (2005) or BloodRayne (2005), he leaned on camp, offensive comedy, and complete chaos instead.
I'm here to argue though, that it didn't fail miserably, despite what a critical score of nine percent on Rotten Tomatoes would lead you to believe.
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Post office it starts off with a recreation of the September 11th attacks and somehow manages to get worse during its 100-minute running time (114 minutes if you can secure a copy of the director's cut). From there, we are introduced to our main character, who happens to be billed as The Post Dude (Zack Ward), five years later. Postal Dude lives in a struggling house in Paradise, Arizona with his chubby, emotionally abusive, manipulative and thieving girlfriend, simply billed as B**** (Jodie Stewart). He is looking to leave Paradise, and start his life anew, because his current situation is not doing him any good at all.
Now, you may be wondering how the opening sequence relates to The Post Dude's character arc, but it all starts to make sense when he is contacted by his Uncle Dave (Dave Foley), the leader of a religious death cult that owes the IRS over a million dollars in back taxes. Dave hires the Postal Dude to run a scam involving the missing shipment of green toys known as Krotchy Dolls, whose exact resemblance to male genitalia sounds like. Basically, Dave wants the Postal Dude to use a postal truck to find and protect missing dolls so he can sell them online for money. That's the whole plan. That's what they think about before they act on it.
Meanwhile, Osama Bin Laden (Larry Thomas) and his terrorist network, who just happen to be out of Paradise, Arizona, are also trying to protect the Krotchy dolls, but for a very sinister reason. Instead of turning themselves in for a quick profit, they want to infect them with a rare bird flu, which leads to a nationwide epidemic where unsuspecting children play with the dolls after being distributed across the country. Unbeknownst to Dave, his right-hand man Richie (Chris Coppola) is on the side of the terrorists because the fictional bible Dave wrote contains a prophecy about the end of days, which Richie takes literally and wants to help facilitate.
Along the way, The Post Dude befriends a barista named Faith (Jackie Tohn) and a bunch of smoking hot kids in skimpy skirts and bikinis who are all handy with machine guns. They mobilized forces and mobilized a mindless body count, sparing no one in their pursuit to shut down Al-Qaeda and restore peace, resulting in an unimaginable amount of damage, bloodshed, and corpses.
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Listen, you need to be a very special kind of person to enjoy movies like this Post office. I'm not saying it's not in bad taste or bad faith because it is. What sets it apart from other “offensive” comics, is its commitment to minimalism. So much so that all comedy comes down to looking at the source of the story, who is directing it, and what it is trying to achieve.
Every single character in the Post office you are suspect, and that is the point. Personally, I am willing to forgive everything that everyone says and does in this movie because it is the moviebut also because everyone gets what is due to them, and everyone deserves it. Post office it should all go in because if it didn't, none of it would feel like it was earned.
Uwe Boll, known for his passion for making films despite his inability to make films, was initially approached by Vince Desiderio, CEO of Running With Scissors, the studio responsible for the film. Post office video game series, coming up with a very dark, shiny adaptation. He rejected the pitch and instead decided to rely entirely on camp, sarcasm, extreme violence, and offensive humor to make his point.
I think this was the right move because the video game series, which also aims to be as politically incorrect as possible, benefits from being turned into an attempt at slapstick thanks to Boll's writing and direction. If you still have that edgelord friend who just can't seem to stop, this movie matches their sense of humor while at the same time humiliating them every step of the way, almost as if to say, “Yes, this is funny, and you can laugh at it, but we also laugh at you.”
Post office it succeeds in offending every single emotion imaginable, and it does so recklessly. Like most of Uwe Boll's efforts, it is uniquely crafted and truly a one-of-a-kind sample. Objectively speaking, it's not a very good movie. But since I evaluate most of my watches based on whether the performance meets the purpose, I have to say “job well done” here. Boll accomplished what he set out to do here, like it or not.
Post office is “one of the greatest movies of all time,” and it can currently be streamed on Tubi for free in all its disgusting, offensive, and stupid glory.
