So disappointed by this movie.

I had to wait a long time for this movie to become available at Blockbuster Online and I was so excited to finally get it in the mail. The trailer looked absolutely hilarious and I thought I was going to watch something funny like a combination of a Christopher Guest "mockumentary" and D&D-skewing indie fare like "The Gamers." Instead, I got a very unfunny, badly filmed, poorly acted crapfest. By the end, I was checking my watch and wondering what was on TV that I could watch instead.

Yes, we all know the gamer stereotypes, but in this case it's so ferociously cruel that you can tell its creators simply hate gamers. There's none of the good-natured "let's laugh at the cliche" moments, like in The Dead Gentlemen's vastly superior "The Gamers." No, instead it just insults gamers viciously.

Anything funny at all is shown in the trailer. After that, they just recycle the same jokes over and over. Okay, the guy's black girlfriend makes him a "wizard robe and hood" that look suspiciously like a KKK outfit. Fine. Okay, the one guy's parents are swingers, we don't need to be told that over and over and over again. Okay, Reese is obsessed with 70s-80s "it-girls" and names him characters after them. Someone needed to learn about editing and comic timing and delivery. We don't need to hear the same jokes ad nauseum. We don't need to hear the same jokes repeatedly. We don't need to hear the same jokes again and again and again. And again.

This film's acting also suffers from a frequent problem of poorly-made "mockumentaries": The actors play the characters is an over-the-top manner that shows the actors are too "into" the joke. For this kind of film to work, the actors need to play their characters straight. They should not play them in any "tongue-in-cheek" fashion. The actors should not be giving the audience a "nudge and a wink." This kind of movie works far better if the actors play their characters completely seriously and let their characters delusional antics create the humor.

The only actors who really seemed to know how to play their parts well were the Hollywood actors making cameos: John Heard, Beverly D'Angelo, William Katt and Kelly LeBrock. Consequently, their parts of the film were the only parts where I honestly laughed.

Work harder on getting honest work out of your actors, work harder on avoiding cliches and stop recycling stale old jokes (John Rocker jokes? In a 2006 film?), and this will work much better.

I give this movie a 3/10.