If you're my age, when you hear the name Bobcat Goldthwait, one thing immediately comes to mind:
For most of the late 80s you watched him play the delightfully bizarre and wacky Zed in Police Academy 2, 3 and 4. You may have even seen him in Shakes the Clown or as the talking stuffed bunny on the so-bad-it's-good TV series, Unhappily Ever After. It's hard to believe that the same Bobcat is now a writer and director, whose films Sleeping Dogs Lie and World's Greatest Dad were accepted into the Sundance Film Festival in recent years.
Late last year, his newest film, God Bless America premiered at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival. The black comedy is a political satire about a man fed up who is fed up with the country's obsession with the vapid and superficial. When he finds out he has a brain tumor, he snaps, befriending a deranged young girl with a shared bloodlust. Without having seen it, people are already intrigued and outraged. The film is being attacked in some blogs, lauded in others.
Last year, James Gunn's dark and demented regular-guy-turned-hero film Super whet my appetite for the twistedly funny. I look forward to seeing God Bless America and I will reserve any judgement of the film until then.
This is a Red Band Trailer, intended for mature audiences and is definitely not safe for work:
The film will be on Video on Demand April 6th before having a limited theatrical run starting May 11, 2012.
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