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Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Don't Believe the Hype

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

The set-up for this film may seem cruel to some, as unsuspecting bit player and comic "Scary" Perry Caravello is fooled (by many, many people) into believing that he is the star of a cop film called Windy City Heat. They actually film the entire movie with him believing that he's the star!! His two buddies, the jealous and bullying Don Barris and the dimwitted and stoned Mole are cast as the secondary leads and actual director Goldthwait portrays the film's director. As you can imagine, Perry was chosen to trot off on this entirely filmed, seemingly endless snipe hunt because he is a charmingly guilable target, endlessly patient with the indignities heaped upon him, forever losing his temper and shrieking in a shrill voice yet never really asserting himself. And oh, what indignities they are! Poor Perry is thrown repeatedly into a dumpster filled with manure, made to drink countless beer, milk, and pizza smoothies before his big love scene with the luscious Susan B Anthony (which he is then barred from when Goldthwait insists on a stunt double), denounced as "scary fairy" by Carson Daily, and nearly killed by Mole during a prop mishap which then leads to Perry being left tied to a chair and forgotten about by the entire crew. So much more. Two scenes in this had me laughing as hard as anything I've ever laughed at in my life. The first is when Perry is presented with the vile piece of junk that is supposed to be the action figure of his character. It's so misshapen and repellent it looks like a voodoo doll. And Perry's indignant reaction is perfect. I was rolling on the ground laughing.The second is the final, frantic race to the film's big opening. The way the movie throws roadblock after roadblock at Perry as he tries to make it on time is brilliant. The intersection of a drunken, metal head limo driver (named Travis Bickle of all things) and a trip to a convenience store that nearly turns into ménage trios between Perry and twin belly dancers is so brilliant in the way that it stacks madness on top of madness. Loved it!

I'm going to be brief. One night I woke up around 11pm or after, the TV was still tuned in to Comedy Central, and Windy City Heat was on TV. This was the premiere on Comedy Central. I glanced at the TV because it was on when it's usually off, and the moment I realized what I was looking at, and what was going on, I could not go back to sleep. I was laughing so much my girlfriend remembers me watching this movie while she was having her sleep interrupted. I wanted to see it again but it was no where to be found.i wanted this movie so bad, just to watch it again, I scoured the Internet and found someone had it on eBay. This was months later, and the movie wasn't even on disc at the time. Someone else knew how good of a movie it was and capitalized on it. Sorry for not being brief.

Nobody in their right mind will believe that this is a "documentary of a real prank", because there are too many nonsensical events. Instead, just enjoy the craziness and unadulterated (and often unsophisticated) comedy in this film.I think Perry Caravello completely steals this show. To put it another way, I would go so far as to say that everyone *but* Caravello absolutely stank in this movie. But that isn't a fatal flaw - because all the funny moments are HIS moments and the rest of the people are just there converting oxygen into CO2.The biggest knock I have on this movie is that it isn't, well, "tight". I really wonder about the evolution from story to screenplay to shooting to production and where the heck the focus was lost. As soon as about halfway through the movie, everything starts falling apart into a series of seemingly random events, as if they either 1) got tired of making it, or 2) butchered the thing in editing to make a time limit.A bit of an annoyance is Tony Barbieri's insistence that he bring his "Niles Standish" voice (as J.Q. Adams) into the movie, as if that is some sort of gold standard that will add credibility to the movie. For him to have to leave the room each time Niles (er, "Adams") came on the line was basically a silly ego trip on his part. Who cares who does that voice? Keep it over at Crank Yankers.Lastly, several reviewers seem to think that Perry Caravello is not a "real" person. Perry is real, and interestingly enough, if you check out his web site at http://www.scaryperryproductions.com and spend time there, you'll see that there seems to be a big similarity between the real Perry and the movie character. The real Caravello is slogging his way through the business, trying to make it in the same manner. Once you spend time on his site, you'll probably want to watch the movie again because the insight will offer a new dimension. You start rooting for the guy in real life, too!

Didn't see the televised prank on Perry, but heard all about it. What Jimmy Kimmel didn't know when he chose Perry as his easy target, is that the real Perry Caravello has qualities that Jimmy Kimmel would kill or die for...: Perry was physically beautiful, funny, witty and popular - he loved punk-rock and skateboarding. Perry was was in a head-on car collision with a person who entered the freeway from an off-ramp. Perry slipped into a coma after the accident and didn't wake up for months - when he did, it was a miraculous moment, however Perry showed signs of major brain-damage - he wasn't the same, didn't talk or walk the same and was very child-like. Since the accident happened in high school most of us were too selfish to remain friends with the "new" Perry and he spent most of his time in his mother's care - until she died. Now Perry has no one to protect him and it is sad to see that the bullies discovered him and decided to put him into the Gladiator's arena so that we can watch him fight a losing battle against the pathetic rodeo clowns of t.v.