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Dir. Scott Prendergast
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By Jes Sipling
In contrast to his character -- the nerdy, inept Salman -- Scott Prendergast aptly plays a one-man-show as writer, director and lead in this peculiar comedy. Out in Nevada, Salman is fired from a printing job for his bizarre obsession with lamination and heads to Texas to support his brother’s hyper-stressed, depressed army wife, Leslie (Lisa Kudrow), and her two hell-raising brats. Far from her perfected, dopey blonde persona, Kudrow gives Leslie a seriously dark edge; constantly in fear of being widowed by the Iraq war, she is in no mind to have jittery Salman care for her kids while she heads back to work, but with no money for daycare, she lets him stay in her bed-less guestroom. Salman’s nephews, Lincoln and Cameron (Landon Henninger & Cameron Wofford, respectively), prove to be far more than he can handle with their fit-throwing and death threats. As a result, Leslie quickly banishes him to work as Kabluey, the faceless, blue mascot of a nearly dead Internet company. His job is simply to hand out fliers -- in a sweltering full-body costume (with no thumbs) he can’t get in or out of alone, in the middle of a vacant road, with one instruction: “Don’t give fliers to assholes.” As a filmmaker, Prendergast’s finest achievement in this flick may be his knack for marrying the absurd to the normal seamlessly. Apart from Salman, every role is small, but he manages to draw you in with even the most minor characters. Mixed up in this circus is a rich, suburban housewife (Christine Taylor), who needs a clown for her kid’s party, a screaming, sex-maniac boss (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), and Ramona (Angela Sarafyan), an eccentric grocery clerk who suspects Salman of kidnapping. Each character seems ready to blow at a moment's notice, which is more than enough to earn pathetic, perpetually sweaty Salman our sympathy.
Bonus features solely consist of 25 deleted scenes. However, the soundtrack, which includes the indie-pop tunes of Utal Carol, Magic Bullets, and Of Montreal, could be considered a significant bonus, as well.
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