Requisite Strangers With Candy post

It's Sunday and I've already seen the Strangers With Candy movie twice since Friday. Obsessed? A bit. Call it Liz Phair syndrome, but I'll consume anything Amy Sedaris puts out: the good, the bad, the indie, the mainstream. I just love her that much. Saying that, like any TV show made into a full-length film, the Strangers With Candy movie was a bit disappointing. Now I'm not going to bore you all with a full-length review or anything, but it was good enough, if only for the fact that almost every scene, line and character in the movie reminded me of something funnier that happened in an episode of the TV show. The movie was still funny and not in the you-have-to-be-a-fan-of-the-show way, though. And it was filled with more high-profile guest-stars than a season of Will & Grace (Best? Kristen Johnson as a gym-teacher in a motorized wheelchair. Worst? Sarah Jessica Parker as a grief counselor). Just completely over the top, random, over-dramatized humour in the vein of those good, bad movies like Superstar and Romy and Michele's High School Reunion. And yes, I'll probably go see it a third time before it gets kicked out of the Princess, but only so I can take another uninitiated soul (the first was my sis) and try to turn them into a SWC fan so someone else knows what I'm talking about when I quote Jerri Blank. Hi-larious!