With \u201cIdiots,\u201d Macon Blair returns to the dark, chaotic comedy that earned him the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance for 2017\u2019s \u201cI Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore.\u201d Once again, everyday people find themselves in ridiculous situations that go off the rails. Two bumbling transport drivers (Dave Franco and O\u2019Shea Jackson Jr.) are tasked with delivering a spoiled wealthy teen (Mason Thames, shedding his nice guy persona) to rehab, only to find themselves at the hands of kidnappers, one of whom thinks he\u2019s a rapping werewolf. Originally, Blair\u2019s comedy shared its name with Steve Martin\u2019s dog in 1979\u2019s \u201cThe Jerk,\u201d in which the comedian played a simple-minded goofball. Compared to this lot, Martin comes off as Einstein\u2019s prodigy.<\/p>\n
Jackson plays Davis, a kind-hearted Christian who gets fired from his church job for taking a group of kids to see Lars von Trier\u2019s \u201cAntichrist.\u201d He thought it was a movie about Jesus, but that doesn\u2019t explain why they watched the entire film, thus exposing the little disciples to Willem Dafoe\u2019s \u201cdong.\u201d<\/p>\n
Davis gets hired by a transport service where he\u2019s partnered with Mark (Franco), a stoner who just got fired from his job. The two screw-ups are assigned to deliver a rich, spoiled teenager named Sheridan Kimberley (Thames) to a rehab facility. What they don\u2019t know is that Sheridan is a social media influencer with millions of followers. He\u2019s also a sociopath who went viral for setting a homeless man on fire. Thames gets to shed his goody-two-shoes image (\u201cHow to Train Your Dragon,\u201d \u201cThe Black Phone\u201d) by playing a world-class jerk.<\/p>\n
In the tradition of \u201cMidnight Run\u201d and \u201cThe Last Detail,\u201d Blair\u2019s dysfunctional road trip comedy quickly spirals out of control as the three guys take off in Mark\u2019s beater, an old Buick, traveling across Virginia.<\/p>\n
The teen begins manipulating the two men. He drugs Mark, who \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 himself; disgusting but hilarious. A Russian sex worker named Irina (Kiernan Shipka) enters the story; she really gets the short end of the stick. And Sheridan attempts to escape.<\/p>\n
Irina (and her grandmother, or \u201cBaba,\u201d played by Lynn Wanlass) team up with Davis and Mark to ensure that Sheridan is delivered to rehab, but they encounter another snag after the teen influencer jumps on his platform to issue a $5 million reward to anyone who can rescue him, stating that he\u2019s been abducted by \u201cperverts.\u201d Wait! It gets better.<\/p>\n
Sheridan\u2019s bogus cry for help is answered by a group of misfits who follow the teen influencer on social media, including Koko (Peter Dinklage), Crystal (Najah Bradley), and the film\u2019s ultimate scene-stealer, Nicholas Braun (\u201cSuccession\u201d), as a wannabe SoundCloud rapper named Pricka Bush Da Werewolf.<\/p>\n
Filled with offbeat characters, gross-out humor, and plenty of \u201cYo Mamma\u201d jokes, Macon Blair\u2019s \u201cIdiots\u201d is proof that zero brain cells equal one hundred percent laughs.<\/p>\n
(3 \u00bd stars)<\/p>\n
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