Tim Heidecker is running for District Attorney of San Bernadino, California. Or, to put it in a slightly more accurate way: “Tim Heidecker” is “running” for “District Attorney” of the small SoCal town. You don’t need to have watched the comedian’s groundbreaking, brain-grinding sketch series with Eric Wareheim, Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!, to sense that there are a lot of air quotes in the premise of Mister America. Nor do you have to know his various collaborations within the confines of his Adult Swim homebase...
- 10/9/2019
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
There’s an acquired taste to the comedy of Tim Heidecker. The actor and comedian, primarily known for his work on the Adult Swim program Tim and Eric Awesome Show, has also ventured into films with efforts such as The Comedy. To call these items divisive would be an understatement. Now, this week brings a new work of his in Mister America, one that’s perhaps less bizarre than his other works, though no less strange. Unfortunately, while it may, on the surface, seem like his most accessible flick, it’s also his most toothless. Despite a committed effort on his part, very little clicks here. The movie is a mockumentary, poking fun at the political process, as well as certain modern day candidates. “Tim Heidecker” (played by Heidecker) is a slightly fictionalized version of the man, here a concert promoter, after beating a murder rap for selling lethal e-cigarettes...
- 10/9/2019
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
It’s hard to define exactly what actor/comedian/musician Tim Heidecker does — the deliberate result of a Dead Sea-dry sense of humor that can make even his most committed supporters feel like they’re not always in on the joke — but if anything binds his various projects together it might be a consistent effort to explore the value of absurdity in an increasingly absurd world. You can see it in “The Comedy,” a semi-improvised satire in which Heidecker gave one of the decade’s great performances as a trust fund man-child who gets unmoored between irony and entropy. You can hear it on albums like “Too Dumb for Suicide: Tim Heidecker’s Trump Songs,” in which he mocks our reality TV president in order to grapple with the futility of mocking our reality TV president.
And you can watch it darken and metastasize for hours and hours and...
And you can watch it darken and metastasize for hours and hours and...
- 10/9/2019
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
What is it about the complete lack of faith in the government and the consistent empowerment of white supremacists that tickles so many so-called liberal filmmakers? Last year it was director Adam McKay’s “Vice,” and now it’s “Mister America,” director Eric Notarnicola’s uncomfortable mockumentary presumably meant to parody modern political decay.
But because it is filmed like a documentary, with an uncomfortably convincing central performance by actor and co-writer Tim Heidecker, it almost does seem like a completely unqualified Tim really is running for San Bernardino district attorney. In today’s political climate, where a man was elected president of the United States just weeks after being accused of sexual harassment, it wouldn’t be unbelievable to watch a similarly unfit white guy, who also narrowly escaped criminal prosecution, confidently run for major office.
Heidecker, most famous for his “Tim & Eric” series on Adult Swim, really leans...
But because it is filmed like a documentary, with an uncomfortably convincing central performance by actor and co-writer Tim Heidecker, it almost does seem like a completely unqualified Tim really is running for San Bernardino district attorney. In today’s political climate, where a man was elected president of the United States just weeks after being accused of sexual harassment, it wouldn’t be unbelievable to watch a similarly unfit white guy, who also narrowly escaped criminal prosecution, confidently run for major office.
Heidecker, most famous for his “Tim & Eric” series on Adult Swim, really leans...
- 10/7/2019
- by Candice Frederick
- The Wrap
Mister America is a unique and hilarious look into a man’s ruinous attempts to find validation.
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There’s something to be said for a joke that gets seriously out of hand. Tim Heidecker and Gregg Turkington’s On Cinema began as a podcast that typically clocked in at under five minutes. It then evolved into a web series that migrated to Adult Swim, which has spun off to a side series on television, and that in turn led to a multi-day real-time streamed murder trial. Now, at last, we come to the feature film. It’s a journey that’s as unbelievable as the one that Heidecker goes through in Mister America. This film may have a lot of history behind it, but whether you’re aware of On Cinema’s decade-long past, are a fan of Heidecker’s other comedic efforts, or just admire gonzo experimental filmmaking,...
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There’s something to be said for a joke that gets seriously out of hand. Tim Heidecker and Gregg Turkington’s On Cinema began as a podcast that typically clocked in at under five minutes. It then evolved into a web series that migrated to Adult Swim, which has spun off to a side series on television, and that in turn led to a multi-day real-time streamed murder trial. Now, at last, we come to the feature film. It’s a journey that’s as unbelievable as the one that Heidecker goes through in Mister America. This film may have a lot of history behind it, but whether you’re aware of On Cinema’s decade-long past, are a fan of Heidecker’s other comedic efforts, or just admire gonzo experimental filmmaking,...
- 10/7/2019
- Den of Geek
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