REVIEW: Unabashedly Half-Assed Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie Makes No Effort to Please

As any meander through the movies that have their origins in Saturday Night Live sketches will demonstrate, comedic ideas that work in the short form do not necessarily a funny feature make. You have your Wayne's Worlds, sure, but then you also have your Night at the Roxburys and It's Pats, interminable variations on the same joke dragged out longer than anyone either watching or on the screen wanted. The comedy of Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim, creators of Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!, might as well come from a different galaxy as those SNL bits, but Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie has at least one thing in common with The Ladies Man — neither demanded nor benefits from the leap to the big screen.
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Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie Teaser: WTF?

Let me preface this by saying that I love Tim and Eric's bizarro-surrealist sketch comedy shtick, and when I write "WTF?" I don't necessarily mean it in a bad way. It's just... what else can be said about the new ultra-brief teaser for Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie? What reactions other than "WTF?" did these evil comic geniuses even intend?

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Ferrell, Galifianakis, Forte Join Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie

The Wrap reports that filming has begun on the feature film spin-off of Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim's sketch show Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!, and shares a few juicy-but-vague production details: Will Ferrell, Zach Galifianakis, Will Forte, Jeff Goldblum, John C. Reilly, Robert Loggia, and William Atherton will co-star; the plot will follow Tim and Eric as they biff a big Hollywood movie deal and become businessmen in a "semi-abandoned" mall; and the film's budget is, naturally, $1 billion. Go get that Oscar, boys. [The Wrap]