Good hype for A Good Burger
Good Burger is an extension of a famous bit from Nickelodeon’s all-kid sketch comedy series “All That,” featuring a teen version of Laurel and Hardy played by Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell. In fact the whole “All That” team. The plot finds these two teen-aged pilgrims of the service economy in the cross-fire of a war between burger joints. Mondo Burger — fronted by a scrawny neo-Nazi played by Jan Schwieterman who faces a fine future taking all the roles David Spade turns down — literally wants to take over the world. First it must take over Good Burger across the street, a funky, down-home, multi-culti kind of place that despite its overwhelming incompetence is a neighborhood institution. When the movie goes high tech toward the end — with frantic plot twists, kidnappings, exploding hamburgers and the fiery destruction of a fast food joint conceived as a museum display of crass consumerism — it tends to lose contact with the character work that provided its original charm. Most adults will find it as tiresome as their younger kids will find it delightful, but anyone who doesn’t smile is probably either too adult to count or too dead to care. So that is my attempt to tastefully judge a crap movie as though it was something good.
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