Shorts Program 1: Hit the Ground Laughing
by Ealasaid Haas • March 5, 2006 • Shorts
Shows: 3/3 6:30 PM (Cam 12), 3/4 11:30 AM (Cam 12)
This collection of short films includes some real sidesplitters. “Zombie-American” features “The Daily Show” correspondent Ed Helms as a zombie who just wants to be accepted as a person. Cinequest regular Jarrad Paul stars in two films, “K-7” (about a job interview that goes hysterically awry when the applicant finds out he’s applied to the CIA and they actually want him to be an assassin) and “The Method” (about the lengths some actors will go to in order to get an important part). Sandra Oh (“Sideways”) stars in “Kind of a Blur,” which takes a look at a couple after a fun but largely blurred night out. “The Awesome Robots vs. Transformo” will have anyone who’s known serious comic dorks rolling in the aisles, and “Julieta y Ramon” features an unusual love story between two people with equally strong but very different fetishes.
“The Racist Brick,” a vignette about an insensitive guy, doesn’t quite hit its mark, and “Fancy” is a drawn-out version of one of the oldest “so a woman goes to the gynecologist…” jokes in the world. Then there’s “The Smartest Person Who Ever Lived,” which (judging from audience reaction) is a lot funnier if you’ve been married for a long time. Overall, this collection of shorts is a lot of fun and it definitely has some real gems.