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Well-acted, funny, and poignant. It's Mike Judge material (Beavis and Butthead, King of the Hill), and there are some recognizable Judge flourishes in the dialogue, and a Boomhauer character in the office. This is the first film featuring Jennifer Aniston that I've ever sat through! She's actually good in her fake restaurant waitress portrayal. Judge does a great job lampooning the painful and pithy vacuity of late-phase exhorbitant capitalism, but this is not all nihilism--like King of the Hill often does, the movie gives us hope for redemption. Plus, the soundtrack fucking rocks. You get Biz Markie, Ice Cube, and, best of all a raw fat track from



which ranks as one of my top-ten favorite promo scores at Borders.

It would be easy to say of



that it's been done before--many of its stylistic flourishes are borrowed--but I still found it harrowing and beautiful. What a world! Gangs of street kids killing each other in drug wars, hoping to emulate successful hoods who are doomed to die in Rio's slums. Hell in Paradise, indeed. Makes me ashamed to have thought I had a tough childhood. Based on a true story.