I remember Liquor Day like it was yesterday. Probably because it was yesterday. Actually, I suppose officially, Liquor Day was Friday, but I wasn’t able to celebrate until last night.
So what’s Liquor Day? It’s a new Canadian holiday (says me), in celebration of the Trailer Park Boys, the date marking the occasion of their last return to Sunnyvale in Countdown to Liquor Day. For 10 years, Ricky, Bubbles, and Sexian.. err… Julian, made me and the rest of Canada laugh while they smoked dope, got drunk as fuck, and ate chicken fingers. A national holiday is the least we can give them in return.
Ok, for some ungodly reason, a lot of people I know (the less cool ones) don’t actually watch Trailer Park Boys. That should be a crime in itself, but at least they are just ignorant to what they’re missing out on. Worse than their stupidity – much worse – is all the people I don’t know who are online, on tv, and in newspapers, giving the second film by the Boys lame reviews. What is up with that?!
Allow me to say, for the record, right now, that Trailer Park Boys 2: Countdown to Liquor Day fucking kicked ass. Yes, the film followed a similar formula to the tv show. Yes, the jokes are all about getting stoned and drunk and being stupid. However, Mr Jay Stone of the Canwest News Service (that’s right, I’m naming names of lame reviewers, and I’m calling you out, Jay), this does NOT get old or tiresome. At all. In fact, it’s funnier than ever.
I guess I can accept that Jay just has no sense of humour. Certainly, he is not now, nor ever was, a fan of the show. If he was, he’d have said what I am about to. This film encapsulated everything I loved and will miss about the show: Bubbles’ kitties, Julian’s sexy black t-shirt, Ricky’s -isms, Bo-Bandy’s gut, and Lahey’s ability to single-handedly fuck everything up. Then we were given some new twists and treats, like Bubbles getting a date, J-Roc actually making it (you gotta wait for the credits for that one), and Julian working for Ricky for once.
Besides fanhearting all over my Boys, which I could do for ages, let’s get a little technical for a quick second or two. Dialogue, sound, photography.. all wins, as far as I’m concerned. Ok, I’m not a master of the craft, but I actually noticed the music and thought to myself how well it fit with the scenes (srsly!), and then I have always loved how they cut between the different kinds of cameras they use, integrating security footage or pretend hap-hazard running-with-the-camera shots. And dialogue, well, it’s a large amount of improv, and I doubt anyone could deny how good these guys are at it. Yeah, Jay doesn’t even mention any of those things in his review! Probably because he was too busy coming up with big, fancy, book-learning words like “unspoken and rather endearing piece of cultural anthropology”. It’s actually just a fucking rum and coke, buddy!
Would I have changed anything? Yes. I would have liked a little more face time with Lucy and Sarah because they kill me, and I still really miss Cory and Trevor! Real Trinity was there though (she wasn’t in the first film), and we get to see a bunch of other recurring characters, like Cyrus and former-officer George Green, in jail.
Bottom line: If you love the Boys, you will love this movie. Also, the last weekend in September shall henceforth be for celebrating Liquor Day in Canada, pass it on.
-uberfangirl
p.s. Sorry for picking on Jay Stone. Kind of.
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