The Blair Thumb
by Todd Portugal
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Actor: Jim Jackman, Megan Cavanagh, Paul Greenberg, Steve OedekerkDirector: Todd Portugal
Brand: Unknown
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 28 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-01-22
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Image Entertainment
Movie Reviews of The Blair Thumb
Movie Review: Outrageously funny and thumbtastic
Summary: 5 Stars
When I first heard of these "thumb" movies, my first thought was along the lines of "how stupid can you get?" My second thought was, of course, "I have to see this for myself," and The Blair Thumb seemed like the best film for me to start with. There are two things you need to know about The Blair Thumb: it's short (28 minutes) and it's extremely funny. Without a great script, this whole thing would have been a disaster. No one wants to sit and watch a bunch of thumbs just wander into the woods and get lost. Fortunately, these thumbs took as many classic one-liners as three thumbs could carry along for the journey. I'm not going to say Steve Oedekerk is a genius - this is the same guy who wrote the Ace Ventura movies - but there can be no doubt that, in the world of thumbs, Steve Oedekerk is king.
You're going to need to have seen The Blair Witch Project (just the first one - I would never recommend the second one to anyone I didn't hate with every fiber of my being) in order to appreciate all of the jokes on display here, as The Blair Thumb is a true parody. Here, Stressy, Jish, and Vic head out into the woods - after interviewing a few local thumbs, of course - to investigate the legend of the Blair Thumb. They end up getting lost, of course, and hilarity ensues time and time again as they suffer a "totally sharky" night-time attack on their tent, lose Jish, and scream a lot on their way to a classic ending.
Just how realistic can a bunch of thumbs be? You'll be surprised - I was, at least. From their beady little eyes to their ultra-expressive mouths, these thumbs go where no thumbs have gone before. It's the voiceovers that really make the film, though. Megan Cavanaugh (Stressy) and Jim Jackman (Jish) are great, but Steve Oedekerk's Vic steals the whole show time and time again with some of the funniest dialogue I've heard in quite a while.
The Blair Thumb comes with a veritable cornucopia of extras - including trailers for other Thumb films, behind-the-scenes interviews with the thumb cast members, and both sane and insane commentary tracks. Thus, despite the actual film's short running time, you still get plenty of bang for your buck with this DVD. This is actually the second entry in Oedekerk's Thumbation film series (the first being Thumb Wars - The Phantom Cuticle), and I can't wait to see the likes of Bat Thumb and Thumbtanic.
Summary of The Blair Thumb
Created by the writer of "The Nutty Professor," "Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls" and "Patch Adams," this second installment in the Thumbation series is a clever tale about three thumbs who travel into the woods to make a documentary about a local urban legend. One year later, the thumbs' video equipment is found, the footage compiled and made into a chilling movie about the terror the students encountered during their search for the truth behind The Blair Thumb.Lost, stupid, and really, really scared, Stressy turns the camera on herself and whimpers, "I don't know where this snot is coming from because I don't have a nose." Well no, she doesn't, because she's the star of Steve Oedekerk's surreal all-thumbs parody of The Blair Witch Project. Three camera-wielding digits get lost in the forest, fight off a shark attack in their tent ("It could have been an owl," Stressy hopefully offers), and relentlessly film every moment of their blind panic. This bizarre spoof has it all over the recent rash of parodies: it's shorter (under half an hour) and sillier, and it stars Jaws, Frankenstein's monster, and a handful of talking thumbs with squished-together eyes, run-amok eyebrows, and overactive mouths spewing nonstop nonsense. And it's pretty darn funny to boot.
The spoofing continues through the special supplements, with a mock "making of" featurette (where the thumbs blab on about coffee, motivation, and irritating butt rashes), outtakes and deleted scenes, and a thoroughly nonsensical, incomprehensible Insane commentary track to accompany the Sane (but only slightly more informative) commentary track. --Sean Axmaker
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