Best dark humor with kiddies: Welcome to the Dollhouse

Actually, if you want to see a truly bad attempt at black comedy and murder (also starring Christian Slater; what was he thinking?), try Very Bad Things. The title is prophetic, as it is a very bad movie starring very evil people.

“Whatever you hear, there is a sequel in the works. I swear to God,” she told the magazine. “But for some reason the writer Dan Waters and director Michael Lehman don’t want to talk about it. I’ve been wanting to do a sequel forever. There is a story, and Christian [Slater] has agreed to come back as a kind of Obi-Wan character.”

That’s as bad an idea as Gladiator II: The Revenge of Gracchus.

I guess now that I’m further and further away from the absurd cartoon reality world that is high school, a story focused on self-centered dumbfucks just loses its ability to amuse me, even though I was glad to see them die. I’d rather watch the hormonally-imbalanced teenagers of Sixteen Candles and Gregory’s Girl than witty repartee from a psychotic Christian Slater and equally psychotic Heathers before Little Miss Voiceover gives it all a super-false optimistic ending. It’s much more fun to watch the clueless people you really can’t hate than a cast of people being dicks to each other and then have an ending where all the dicks die and the voiceover of reason tries desperately to tie it all into a neat bow.

Still, I eagerly await a plethora of good one-liners and insults and conversations where the dad is an idiot.

J.

Or croquet, for that matter.