Trailer Park Boys came of age before the economic doomsday clock chimed midnight, so its disregard for the trappings of legit success and the characters’ loyalty to their wayward community was as rebellious and enviable as the show was fresh and satisfying. Those elements are in Liquor Day—where the Boys war against their inebriated nemesis Jim Lahey—though now, in an age of economic tenuousness, the Boys seem to be overstaying their welcome. I’m not saying that Ricky, Julian and Bubbles’ behaviour is the default option when one’s job goes tits-up, but I am saying that economic uncertainty makes clear that it is easier to slide down a few rungs on society’s totem pole than it is to climb back up. Trailer Park Boys isn’t the escapist pleasure it used to be.
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So Hillary, your pointless critic of this movie will become null and void when the economy turns around, is that what you are trying to say here ?
Reading that review was like listening to a politician speak. You used a lot of words without actually saying anything about the film. Maybe you should ditch the film critic schtick and move to Ottawa to become a speech writer.
Man, I thought you had put this tedious prose out to pasture.
Fellow commentators, beware!
Last time, the whole awesome might of The Coast’s bullpen crashed down on us for not fawning over these reviews.
Was that a review or did you just compile a string of random words out of the dictionary and put ‘trailer park boys’ in a few lines?
Nowhere to go but up.
I posted this before but the pea-brains censored it! Nazis!
Nowhere to go but up.
What is she talking about?
What has the downturn or upturn of the economy got to do with how funny TPB is? It’s either funny or it’s not. This ‘review’ doesn’t make any sense!
That StarTrek review was the cats ass, what are you talking about?
Inn fairness, its really no worse than sitting through or reading a TPB interview where the actors are in character the whole time. The first few years it was a neat idea, now its just tedious.
Hillary must have known that if she was going to say ANYTHING negative about the Trailer Park Boys, she was gonna have to spend a minimum of 5,000 words defending her opinion.
That being said, it is surely lacking in depth, considering this is the Nova Scotia Film Industry’s biggest export this year. Odd.
Just like the Star Trek review, I have no problem with her opinion, rather the hellishly painful manner in which she writes is the rub.
I think that Ms. Titley is missing the entire point of this TPB film. The film is not supposed to be satire of today’s economical woes. It’s also not there to justify the TPB way of life. This movie was all about the fans. TPB has a large fan base locally, nationally, and internationally. In creating this film they gave the fans what they wanted…more idiotic, humourous, and bizarre TPB antics.
I haven’t read a review where she actually liked the movie.
You people have no respect for anyone’s opinion do you.
Yes I mean You People!!
Grow the hell up!!!!
This could very well be the dumbest review I have ever read. And I’ve read thousands.
that’s a wack review, holy lord thunderin.
I find it funny that the movie reviews you guys bitch most about are Trailer Park Boys and Star Trek. Saving up all your rudeness for art, I see.
Hey Beaverhausen! I thought the Star Trek movie sucked, and you couldn’t pay me to see the Trailer Park Boys.
Her reviews are worse than bad, they’re poorly written and mainly gibberish.
Holy mother of pearl… Titley, you really need to go take your creative writing class again. Honestly. I liked the film. Yes, it’s more of the same, but I don’t expect any film about a fictitious trailer park and it’s criminal denizens to be artful. Hillary, stick to writing reviews about art house films that involve gay cowboys eating pudding. That’s more your style, not pop culture.