UnHung Hero (2013)

Nice effects though.

Best movie of this year hands down!

Awesome Movie

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Remember when documentaries were for the intellectually elite? Classrooms and learning stuff and the idea that they would be a mainstream genre seemed ridiculous? Well gone are those days and we have a host of documentaries in every possible idea you can think of. This is yet another one. I would hazard to guess that this isn't meant to be a "serious" documentary though I do believe that the star of the film was very serious in his quest but it is just a fun, brainless, and yes incredibly shallow film about a man examining whether or not size matters...all over the world. You will likely recognize the guy (as soon as he told his story I remembered) how his girlfriend turned him down on live Television at a sporting event and the Youtube video went viral. Well this is the after effect of that. We find out that she didn't want to marry him because he has a small penis. Whether or not that is true...I don't know...seems a little much but he goes on a quest all over the world to find out how women, men and cultures view penis size. Some of it is actually interesting and will make you cringe and for many reviews on here, incredibly shallow.Our "hero" so to speak is comedian and Youtube sensation Patrick Moote. Now a lot of reviewers call this guy "whiny" and "shallow" but I will say that I give the guy credit for doing this. How many other guys would make an entire film based on the fact that they have a small manhood? He is truly putting himself out there. I see some genuine emotion in some of the scenes. He is genuinely upset about this and if its acting then he's a very good actor. He is a little pathetic and his one major breakdown is the tantrum of a child but aren't we all a little childish. Moote still has a certain "every guy" quality about him and he's charismatic enough to make the film interesting. He covers a wide variety of culture and talks to some interesting people and you will definitely learn very quickly that he has a very, very low self esteem but we want honesty out of documentaries and Unhung Hero gives you at least that.Moote is not the film maker here either. Instead this is done by Brian Spitz who doesn't have a lot of experience but I think the way he put the film together is done quiet well. Its not a brilliant documentary by any means but it is something that any adult can sit down and enjoy. I mean, for a documentary this one will run you through a ringer of emotions. You will laugh, you'll roll your eyes, you'll cringe, you'll feel empathetic for him and you enjoy journeying with him. You can't help but actually learn some things from this film and I think that is what a documentary should do so how can you say anything bad about it? Michael Moore Doc its not but entertaining...certainly. 7/10

Patric said it best himself. "I'm going to come out as an insecure, narcissistic asshole with a small dick." Or something like that. It's all true, it's the overall impression I got of the protagonist.While production value is what I expected, it didn't seem like he wanted to do anything at all. All the way through the film he has a look on his face that screams "kill me now.", not a magnet for my attention by any standards.Sauna was a good idea that was executed in the most unprofessional manner you could dream of. The only thing that would have made that scene worse is if he went in there 30 minutes after popping Viagra. What he did is the reason camera phones are banned in several school showers. If I were in there, I'd sue. Just saying.The crew made a good job of planning the progression of the film, and the amount of locations, people and cultures in it is the best part of the film as a whole. It's also a unique documentary. Not in terms of film making, some of the work actually seems uninspired and lazy, but you don't watch a doc because of the brilliant cinematography.

Maybe size is correlated to emotional maturity? After seeing this documentary the woman who turned down our minus-size "hero" must have fully realized the immature bullet she dodge live on a Jumbotron. In fact after watching Patrick Moote drag this thin concept out to nearly the requisite 90 minutes, one imagines the likelihood of his getting a yes at the basketball (or whatever) game was probably largely in his under-developed mind. He minces, he whines, he asks him mother about his penis size(seriously, dude?) and generally gets on everyone he encounters nerves. In between not much happens. He goes to the adult video convention one imagines more for his own prurient interests that anything having to do with the stated reason for the "cockumentary". He goes to Asia for more genital-oriented nonsense and eventually makes it back to the U.S. where he ends with some bad stand-up. How someone makes a whole documentary solely about themselves where they still come off unattractive and irritating is almost difficult to believe. In short, there's not much here.

I didn't hate this documentary. I heard about it a few times, and mainly that it was fake. Wanted to find out for myself. It's not very polished, but it's sincere - he's open-minded and respectful to the people he interviews. I liked his style as he participates in the narrative without falling into that bland overly-PC lack of reaction. There's just one unfortunate exception and it should not have been in the movie. Like most young people he is insecure and like most documentary filmmaker he's narcissistic, and it results in one unfortunate segment where he tries to film in a Korean sauna. It's sort of slapstick-funny when he's caught and those guys react like you would expect showering men discovering someone sneaking a camera into the shower would react, but it's neither informative or entertaining - just creepy and borderline racist. Shouldn't have been in the film.It's kind of interesting how this issue is viewed in other cultures - the weight-lifting segment is pretty surreal, and when he backs down from a needle in New Guinea - yeah, that's cause for reflection. The segment where he considers surgery - this is not a joke for some people, it's really that important to them.Some of it is Spurlock-type selfie time and it's a little forced when he slaps a meta-layer of narrative about not being sure why he should finish the film and a date turning the camera back on him, but I think he/his crew really wanted to make a documentary and this issue seems very personal to him. He goes around the world and meets people and talks about this issue, and makes some discoveries about this topic and about himself, which is what a documentary is for. His interview with the guy who is in the other direction is interesting for the other perspective, but comes across a little as the rich man bemoaning the loneliness of wealth. It's not for everyone but some people will find it interesting to examine an issue that, while rarely treated seriously by most, is deadly serious for some men. He makes an entertaining show out of it (with a single exception) by talking to different kinds of people, examining the subject from different perspectives and learning as much about himself as he does about the topic.Check it out.