| Buford's Beach Bunnies is a below par screwball teen comedy. It's about a fast food restaraunt owned by Harry Buford, that only serves rabbit ( Beach Bunnies...get it?). Stuff like bunny burgers etc. The staff there are all gorgeous, promiscuous women clad in bunny ears, and fluffy tails. Of course they all have gimmicky names like Boopsie Underall, and Amber Dextrous. Oh, and theres the 300 pound ugly manageress Buela Lugosi ( yet another incredibly witty name) who's a really mean old hag who doesn't stop eating. Anyway, Buford's son Jeeter ( played by Hanks, who obviously took Forrest Gump style retarded acting tips off his brother Tom) turns up. He's been in therapy for years because he goes nutzoid and has to run away every time a woman touches him ( kind of like Tom does when he's offered a role that requires any acting ability). This is cause of something that happened in a whorehouse when he was a kid. So Buford offers $100 000 to any woman who can pop Jeeter's cherry. If all this sounds like a cool movie, its purely co-incidental. We rarely laughed, and more often groaned during the marathon effort of sitting through this. Most of the jokes were recycled from the 8576 other screwball comedies we've seen, and the original jokes simply weren't funny. We mainly got a laugh out of seeing Jim Hanks, but the novelty wore off after about five minutes. The nudity was a plus ( it was refreshing to see a lack of silicon enhanced nudity in a modern movie) , though not nearly enough to save this. Buford's Beach Bunnies got ejected after about an hour, so I never found out how it ended. I'd assume that Jeeter hooks up with the geeky girl, and becomes manager of McRabbits ( or whatever the hell it's called) after Buela has a nasty accident with the deep fryer. The movie was almost a waste of an hour of my life, but I still crack a smile when I think about what Tom Hanks' reaction would have been when Jim screened it for him.....and at least Jim can always take Toms place if he's ever sick. The difference in their acting ability is minimal. If you're after a more entertaining comedy by a lesser known brother, try Moving Violations with Bill Murrays brother. |