Two friends encounter a new street drug called “Soy Sauce” that lets you bend time, space and reality to see alternate dimensions, read minds and speak to your dead friend using a hot dog. It quickly befalls our heroes to save the world from a potential inter-dimensional invasion from a super intelligent reanimated pigs head and his army of devoted followers and giant arachnids.
If that sounds too weird for you, the film doesn’t get any clearer. John Dies does a good job of world building that is begging to be bestowed with cult status (and probably will) but suffers from a convoluted narrative told in flashback and severe pacing issues arising from this. The film has no clear direction or development, almost becoming a collection of “cool” ideas strung together with a fast and loose story.
A film to watch with friends and laugh it its insanity, but don’t look for cinema gold. Its a fun piece of entertainment that will keep you laughing throughout, though I’m sure you won’t be dropping references and quotes a week later in the pub. There are those who adore this film and will say, if you didn’t, that you “didn’t get it”. But fear not, there’s nothing to get.
John Dies At The End is released on DVD and Blu-Ray February 17th 2014.
