Some movies clearly try to say something but still leave me wondering whether they were worth the trouble.
I won't provide examples because if you’re interested in movies, you have plenty of your own.
For me, Sasquatch Sunset is one of those movies that has a point to make yet I found it as unsavory as it is amusing. This oddball entertainment was made with humor, much of it reflecting gritty appreciation of the excremental or sexual.
The costumes and make-up are convincing, particularly faces that make the sasquatches ready for their close-ups. Situated somewhere between humans and apes, the movie’s sasquatches wander through forests, foraging for food, working out conflicts, grunting, and eventually encountering evidence of human intrusion into their world.
Directors Nathan and David Zellner found a crew of willing actors to hide behind all the makeup. Jessie Eisenberg, Riley Keough, and Christophe Zajac-Derek deserve credit for joining the Zellners' adventure.
Presumably, the sasquatches are meant to represent a form of "natural" living.They make what appear to be minimal attempts at building shelters and at least one of them is a bit of an authoritarian.
You get the idea. The Zellners are up to something and it would be unfair — despite vulgar jokes about defecating and urinating — to dismiss their efforts.
Still, I couldn’t relate. I found the movie repetitive as it struggled to be more than a one-joke affair that built toward a conclusion that features a punchline some will find meaningful. I found it wan.
Sasquatch Sunset is roughly 90 minutes long. I watched the whole movie but half way through found myself ready for something in which it was the job of humans to gross me out.
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