Rock Slyde (2010)

Best movie of this year hands down!

Did you people see the same film I saw?

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Yo, there's no way for me to review this film without saying, take your *insert ethnicity + "ass" here* to see this film,like now. You have to see it in order to know what you're really messing with.

First off I will say that the story didn't really have much going for it. So at that point I thought it would be hard to keep myself interested. But there was one thing that no matter what happened in the movie, always had me smiling. It was Patrick Warburton. He is an actor that has a very distinct voice that you will always remember. Every time he talked in the movie, I was laughing. Some of the dialog he used was cheesy, but worked since he had such a funny voice. There were some other interesting characters, but they were not as good. Andy Dick was the so called bad guy. It is hard to like Andy Dick as certain characters. He seemed to fit as this one though. The girl that was working for Warburton was Elaine Hendrix. I didn't like her as the character she was. She was a bit annoying. So overall if it wasn't for Warburton and some of his interesting and funny lines, I am not sure if I would of liked the movie at all.

I can't tell how long it's been since I watched a movie that had me smiling and laughing from the time it began to the end. It was so refreshing to watch this movie because it was just clean fun. The writers skills are exceptional followed by the talented cast. Some names have new meaning to me as I will never think of a Jolly Roger as a piece of boring candy again. I still won't eat a Jolly Roger but I will laugh and smile each time I hear the name. Patrick Warburton performance was outstanding as the dimwit detective Rock Slyde. Andy Dick who played the character Bart the obnoxious cult leader, I had to asked myself was that part written exclusively for him? That answer is yes. Rena Sofer did an awesome job playing the denzel in distress. Elaine Hendrix's performance wonderful as her performance reminded me at times of Miss Wiggins from Carol Burnett. Line after line scene after scene I smiled, giggled, I laughed. The writer hit home with silly things that so many people chose to judge their own self worth by. Rock Slyde in my opinion is a family friendly movie.Well done.

"Patrick Warburton and Andy Dick ham up the detective genre. Warburton is Rock Slyde, a Smart Car-driving private dick so droll, so disaffected that he can't be bothered with come-ons from Rena Sofer's beautiful dame when he takes on her case to find out who's tailing her. Dick plays the wacky leader of The Cult of Bartology, whose main objective is to take over Slyde's office space to gain control of the building.Director Chris Dowling takes full advantage of the genre's wide-open spaces for gags and comic allusions to film noir's past. And as the screenwriter, he chooses his shots and doesn't let the script fall into a punny mess.Cameos from Jason Alexander, Jerry Cantrell, Brian Bosworth and others add to the fun. And Andy's real life followers will enjoy seeing him as a brunette."-Marc Lee

"Andy Dick and Patrick Warburton appear on screen in top comedic form in the Independent feature, Rock Slyde, which premiered at the AFI Dallas Film Festival this past week.The idea for the off-beat film was inspired by the handsome director's mother, Chris Dowling noted on the red carpet, with a sly smile on his face."Can't you make a movie that doesn't have any violence or gratuitous sex in it," she pointedly asked the talented screenwriter one day.The Clark Kent look-a-like rose to the occasion by penning a script that hits the funny bone more often than not.Patrick Warburton (private dick Rock Slyde) adeptly plays the role to the hilt - with a droll unaffected approach, mind you - that ultimately takes a poke at the film noir genre it sprang from.Andy Dick - who sports a beard in this part - is hilarious in a zany role that is decidedly off- beat.Part of the reason the cult figure the TV personality plays on screen succeeds so admirably is due to inpeccable timing on the part of Dick and his innate ability to create a character that resonates with its own truth within a specific context.Unfortunately, Rock Slyde - the movie - lags at times.Although Dowling is a competent writer with original ideas, the script should have been tightened a smidgen, to ensure lazy minds didn't wander a tad.In fact, when I exchanged notes with a couple of other industry-types, they admitted they - too - started to snooze a little about three-quarters of the way through Slyde beneath the floodlights.In its current incarnation, the full-length feature tends to lurch and burp a bit; then, roll over and die a second or two, before unexpecedly picking up again as it races to a hilarious finale.In many respects the entertaining piece of fluff is uneven - but fixable - in my estimation.For a low-budget feature (shot on an old soundstage at Sunset Blvd & Gower Street in the heart of Hollywood) that wrapped in a six short creatively-stuffed weeks, I found the production values to be surprisingly rich.Warburton and Dick also manage to rise above the material and make it an inviting popcorn movie film buffs on the edge of the mainstream may be able to warm up to.Teens may guffaw a lot, too, quite possibly transforming the little-movie-that-could into an unexpected hit come the lazy days of summer.Of course, such a scenario is only within reach, if distribution is forthcoming, and a visionary studio backs Rock Slyde with eye-catching promos geared toward the market, of course!1 thumb & 1 half-knuckle up!"-Julian Ayrs, The Tattler