Pun Salad

My second movie in a row with principal characters who are flawed in any number of ways. Oddly enough, I enjoyed The Foot Fist Way quite a bit more than The Darjeeling Limited. Go figure.

The main character here is Fred Simmons, portrayed by Danny R. McBride. Fred is a Tae Kwon Do instructor, running a small dojo. He has little respect for anyone save B-movie star Chuck "The Truck" Wallace, who he idolizes. He is a foul-mouthed martinet to his students. He has (to put it mildly) an exaggerated self-confidence, and he's clueless in interactions with, well, normal people. Unfortunately, things begin to unravel when his slutty wife is indiscreet enough to make Fred aware of her sluttiness. ("I was so drunk - like, Myrtle Beach drunk," she pleads.) This topples several pillars holding up Fred's self-image, and the results are pretty funny.

This worked for me. Danny McBride somehow manages to make Fred appealing with all his flaws; I think you have to be a pretty good actor to thread that needle well.