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Weirdsville (2007)

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Average Rating: 5.4/10
Reviews Counted: 32
Fresh: 18 | Rotten: 14

Though it can be confusing at times, Weirdsville is funny and quirky in equal measure.

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Average Rating: 5.2/10
Critic Reviews: 6
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 3

Though it can be confusing at times, Weirdsville is funny and quirky in equal measure.

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Average Rating: 3.4/5
User Ratings: 3,414

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Movie Info

Two luckless stoners begin a truly awful evening when they discover they have a dead girlfriend on their hands in this black comedy from writer and director Allen Moyle. Dexter (Scott Speedman) and Royce (Wes Bentley) are a pair of half-bright slackers living in a nowhere town in Northern Ontario. Dexter and Royce's lack of ambition is compounded by the fact they're both heroin addicts, and they support their habits by dealing dope for Omar (Raoul Bhaneja), a ruthless dealer who's not to be

R, 1 hr. 30 min.

Drama, Comedy

William Wennekers

Feb 5, 2008

Magnolia Pictures

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All Critics (35) | Top Critics (7) | Fresh (19) | Rotten (14) | DVD (2)

One of the most unlikable films of the year.

October 19, 2007 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | Comment
San Francisco Chronicle
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Half-funny and half-obvious, Weirdsville gets a little tiresomely silly, but Bentley still has a glare that burns through metal, and his rapport with Speedman is agreeable.

October 17, 2007 Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | Comment
Entertainment Weekly
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You don't have to be stoned to watch Allan Moyle's latest small-town escapade, but it might help.

October 12, 2007 Full Review Source: Toronto Star | Comment
Toronto Star
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Dark and devilishly clever, director Allan Moyle's Weirdsville is a twisted caper comedy.

October 12, 2007 Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | Comment
Globe and Mail
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The film jumps around following the misadventures of the characters, and the whole enterprise comes to be frenetic and convoluted rather than pleasingly impudent.

September 10, 2007 Comment
Hollywood Reporter
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A cleverly constructed, capably crafted and often uproarious shaggy-dog black comedy.

January 19, 2007 Full Review Source: Variety | Comment
Variety
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If there was more vision on the front end, with more thought put into shot composition and less adherence to trendy, attention-deficit filmmaking, Weirdsville might have been an innovative indie gem

March 17, 2008 Full Review Source: Las Vegas CityLife | Comment

Neither as funny nor as serious as it ought to be.

January 31, 2008 Full Review Source: Las Vegas Weekly | Comment

Chainmailed flail-wielding midgets chasing Satanists chasing druggies - Allan Moyle has gone for the grown-up panto approach.

November 16, 2007 Full Review Source: thelondonpaper | Comment
thelondonpaper

It's wacky, it's zany, it's loopy, it's freaky, it's daffy - but alas, not the most important one, which is "funny".

November 16, 2007 Full Review Source: Independent | Comment
Independent

Only a trio of bungling Satanists prevent it ending up in routineville.

November 16, 2007 Full Review Source: Sun Online | Comment
Sun Online

Anarchic and low budget, make sure you take along your bong.

November 16, 2007 Full Review Source: Daily Mirror [UK] | Comment
Daily Mirror [UK]

Allan Moyle's stoner heist movie is a meandering dud.

November 16, 2007 Full Review Source: Daily Telegraph | Comment
Daily Telegraph

It's pretty amusing stuff - though it could have been a lot funnier if they had resisted the temptation to shoehorn in quite so many plot twists.

November 16, 2007 Full Review Source: Guardian [UK] | Comment
Guardian [UK]

A pleasingly gonzo black comedy pitched somewhere between Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead Stoned and Dude, Where's My Crack?

November 15, 2007 Full Review Source: Film4 | Comment

A quirky, amusing caper that shouldn't work, but somehow does.

November 15, 2007 Full Review Source: BBC | Comment

Weirdsville is an enjoyable screwball crime thriller with a witty script, inventive direction and superb comic performances.

November 15, 2007 Full Review Source: ViewLondon | Comment
ViewLondon

Director Allan Moyle travels a quirky road too often trod by aspirant indie pics.

November 14, 2007 Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | Comment
Empire Magazine

The script has the substance and the slacker leads have the chemistry, but the execution fumbles the tourniquet, failing to find any rich vein of wackiness.

November 14, 2007 Full Review Source: Total Film | Comment
Total Film

The paper-thin characters make it feel less like a rounded feature and more like a TV pilot with the promise of more adventures to come.

November 14, 2007 Full Review Source: Time Out | Comment

Funny, well-acted nonsense. The best kind of quirkiness.

November 14, 2007 Full Review Source: Little White Lies | Comment
Little White Lies

... it's piffle, but reasonably entertaining piffle, which ain't nothin' to sneeze at nowadays.

October 21, 2007 Comment
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Audience Reviews for Weirdsville

As the title implies this film is kind of weird, in the same line of comedy as usual suspects. 2 potheads are in debt to a drug dealer, so we have a intertwining story with cults, midgets, and a teenage wanna be. Enjoyable and funny at times. A Canadian Comedy but no more the 3 1/2 stars.

May 21, 2010
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Super Reviewer

Scott Speedman, Wes Bentley, Taryn Manning, Greg Bryk, Randy Butcher, Matt Frewer DIRECTED BY: Allan Moyle When stoners Dexter and Royce mistakenly assume their friend Matilda has overdosed, they can't call the cops because she's OD'd on stolen drugs. So, they decide to bury her body themselves. Good news is she's

August 18, 2009
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