Office Girl Review: "The Aristocrats"

If anyone tells you to go see the movie "The Aristocrats", don't. The documentary is about this one joke that is apparently infamous and has been passed down, comic to comic, for generations. The joke is stupid and is really all about being as disgusting as possible. I can't be bothered to give a synopsis of the joke, but most of it involves, defecation, urination, incest, child molestation, anal sex, oral sex, vomit and schtupping your grandma. The whole point of the joke is to be as offensive as possible. The documentary interviews a bunch of famous comics including Bob Saget, George Carlen and Paul Reiser (I had no idea he was a comedian). I think the most disturbing part of the movie for me was when I heard Paul Reiser (you might remember him as the author of such classic novels as "Babyhood" and "Couplehood") talk about "fisting his daughter". Yeah.

The movie is stupid because it is based on the premise that people in our society are entertained by comics repeatedly using the "F" word and talking about sucking their grandfather's cocks. Ha ha. I was told that Bob Saget's telling of the joke was one of the highlights of this film. Now, hearing Bob Saget ask anyone if they'd ever "sucked dick for coke" in the movie "Half Baked" was pretty priceless; watching Saget rely on his association with the TV show "Full House" to juxtapose his repeated use of the word "pussy" is not funny. I would have to say, to at least give this movie some credit, that watching Cartman from Southpark tell the joke to the other kids of Southpark was pretty goddamn funny. That was the only funny bit though.

Some people will like this movie (boys), and some people won't (everyone else). In my opinion, it sucked. I would say, maybe try to get the Southpark clip off the internet and forget about the rest of this timewaster.

Office Girl.