Hail To The King, Baby!

Tonight my friend Rick treated me to my Christmas present, the new Bruce Campbell movie : "My Name Is Bruce"...hosted by (Director/Actor) Bruce Campbell himself here in San Francisco at the Bridge Theater, and GODDAMN!!! The horror/comedy nerd in me is one happy movie geek tonight! Campbell's Q&A session with host (drag queen/movie geek/local celebrity) Peaches Christ had to be one the the most hilarious movie intros I've seen since Peaches' pre-movie Q&A session with "Godfather Of Gore", Herschell Gordon Lewis before last year's midnight showing of "The Wizard Of Gore". Campbell is laugh out loud funny and it was a very special moment to see the man "singing for his supper", on a cross country tour to pimp his self-deprecating comedy.

Me likes some Bruce Campbell and he did not disappoint in any way, shape or form. Not only was Campbell's intro hilarious, but the film was funnier than I had possibly hoped it would be after reading about it in this month's Fangoria magazine...and Jesus..right now I must sound like a twelve year old kid playing with Jason and Freddy dolls....but when I get to have such a special night out laughing that fucking hard...well I have certain, special reasons to geek-out over this crap. "My Name Is Bruce" was goddamn hilarious. This baby was sooooo up my alley! Gory..mostly cartoonish, sarcastic as Hell, heavy on the slapstick , crazy and surreal at times, and had wonderfully nutty dialogue : "You guys ready for some violence?...yeah!" The idea was clever and well-executed and a great treat for fans of Campbell as a total wise-cracking idiot. No one plays a wise-cracking, ego maniacal dipshit like Bruce Campbell, and in a movie tailor-made for his Evil Dead "Ash" persona that is as funny as this was...well let's just say I had no complaints. I give the man kudos not only for a fantastic evening but for directing and starring in a really funny movie. Sure, some jokes might be lost on folks not familiar with Campbell's body of work, but the story is still solid and very funny and sarcastic and sometimes mildy mean spirited in a very endearing way...and I do like my mean-spirited gags peppered in as seasoning...and there was plenty to satisfy my particular mean-spirited sweet tooth. Hail to the king , baby!