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Critics Consensus: Multiple plot lines and clues belatedly begin coming together, laying the groundwork for Orphan Black's eventual conclusion.
Critic Consensus: Multiple plot lines and clues belatedly begin coming together, laying the groundwork for Orphan Black's eventual conclusion.
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It takes the thorny subject of doping in professional cycling and turns it into pure, gleeful mayhem.
The film is directed by Jake Szymanski and written by Murray Miller, who paired so well on an earlier installment in what we can only hope will be a series of sports dismantlings.
Apart from the generally good jokes and the amusing imitations of period style, what makes Tour de Pharmacy good company is the overarching sense of play.
The never-ending jokes are profane, obvious, ludicrous, repetitive, absurdist, puerile, crass, tasteless, and, of course, totally freaking stupid. Yeah, I loved it.
You don't have to know or care much about the sport to enjoy the broad sight gags, amusing tangents, and cartoonish accents.
Tour de Pharmacy is a tour de farce of bad taste, unsophisticated humor, brief nudity and absolutely no redeeming values at all except that it's damn funny and oh, so badly needed right about now.
There are enough zany sight gags and fun performances to keep Tour de Pharmacy moving at a brisk and hilarious pace.
The jokes are lobbed at the velocity of gunfire so that you're not done chuckling before something even dumber comes along.
Tour de Pharmacy is exactly the type of utterly silly and self-aware comedy that seems to work well in contrast to our dour reality at present.
You don't have to be a cycling buff to get where head writer and star Andy Samberg (TV's Brooklyn Nine-Nine) and his collaborators (many of whom worked on his 2015 tennis spoof 7 Days in Hell) are coming from here.
Pharmacy Road is a tasteless send-up, and that's fine -- but it shows a really astounding lack of taste to make a spoof about a rather lovely historic event killed by doping, then to invite the main murderer to dance on the grave.
Tour de Pharmacy is a potent, weaponized mixture of the very clever, very stupid, and utterly ridiculous. And at a brisk 40 minutes, it's absolutely worth the ride.
An entertaining enough short that is roughly 50/50 in hits and misses with the humour, an average that I find surpasses the majority of modern American comedy.
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