Made very much in the style of the classic "This Is Spinal Tap", set in Hollywood instead of the world of rock-and-roll. It has a lot of funny moments, but lacks the quality of warped reality makes the comedy of "Tap" so convincing.
The premise is good: Two filmmakers, a producer-and-director team, get tired of making violent trash and decide to film The Bible, but absolutely everything that goes wrong can go wrong. "Spoke" is shot as a fake documentary, capturing all the disasters as they happen and all the brouhaha that ensues. The individual scenes are all funny, especially scenes from the horrible completed film, each moment a hilarious punch line to the scene about the making of it.
But it doesn't add up, I never really believed any of it was happening. Too many things are off. Our heroes have made twelve pieces of successful, slick, trash, but here before our eyes they make something that would get an F in a high school film class. Little things are wrong, like an actor actually getting beaten up in a filmed fight. Each trivial, but they add up enough to damage the credibility of the film as a whole.
So if you've seen "Tap" too many times, or if you love movies about hollywood, or just want some good nasty fun, see it. It's funny, it's not bad, it's just not as good as it should have been.
The premise is good: Two filmmakers, a producer-and-director team, get tired of making violent trash and decide to film The Bible, but absolutely everything that goes wrong can go wrong. "Spoke" is shot as a fake documentary, capturing all the disasters as they happen and all the brouhaha that ensues. The individual scenes are all funny, especially scenes from the horrible completed film, each moment a hilarious punch line to the scene about the making of it.
But it doesn't add up, I never really believed any of it was happening. Too many things are off. Our heroes have made twelve pieces of successful, slick, trash, but here before our eyes they make something that would get an F in a high school film class. Little things are wrong, like an actor actually getting beaten up in a filmed fight. Each trivial, but they add up enough to damage the credibility of the film as a whole.
So if you've seen "Tap" too many times, or if you love movies about hollywood, or just want some good nasty fun, see it. It's funny, it's not bad, it's just not as good as it should have been.