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Bagboy (2007)
Directed by Mort Nathan
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Bagboy is the “from bags to riches” story of a lowly grocery store clerk who endeavors to win the international competitive bagging championships and the girl of his dreams.
Rated PG-13 | Length 94 minutes
Actors
Dennis Farina | Paul Campbell | Marika Dominczyk | Larry Miller | Wesley Jonathan | Nick Lashaway | Robert Hoffman | Josh Dean | Bruce Altman | Lisa Darr | Richard Kind | Brooke Shields | Rob Moran | Carlos Lacámara | Markus Toure Boddie | James Jamison | Tom Gross | Jennifer Summers | Jeanette Puhich | Erin Hiatt | Carole Taylor | Terence Goodman | Zen Gesner | Helen White | Kevin Bruce | Chris Persky | Candido Abeyta | Yolanda Wood | Howard Hong | Reb Fleming | Charan Prabhakar | Jeff Olson | Cami Bay | Carly Craig | Gary Neilson | Josh Richardson | Liz Edmiston | Joshua Howard | Vanh Chandra | Donald S. Campbell | Alex Polk
Viewing History (seen 1 time)
| Date Viewed | Device | Format | Source | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 02/27/2010 | N/A | Streaming | Video on Demand | 2.5 stars |
| (Average) 2.5 stars |
Viewing Notes
Who ever thought someone would make a movie about competitive grocery bagging? Wait, isn’t there a scene in Employee of the Month with Dax Shepard and Dane Cook doing this exact same thing that came out a year earlier? I think so.
Anyways, Bag Boy tries too hard to actually have a serious edge to it with the lead kid Paul Campbell (who later goes on to be in Battlestar Galactica) trying to make a connection with his dream girl Barbi (Marika Dominczyk). Because of the long stretches of non-wacky comedy where the film maker is trying to make this into a teen rom-com it suffers and gets a little tedious.
National Lampoon movies tend to always have one or two B-listers or old TV stars showing up in them and this time it’s Dennis Farina as the grocery story owner who used to train some of the best baggers in the country. You also have Brooke Shields as the horny MILF who constantly hits on the check-out guys. There’s a weird sub-plot that has no bearing in the film at all, about the black checkout guy who is trying to become a rap star and when he gets no props from the record company because he’s not hard or hasn’t been arrested or shot, he goes around to a white neighborhood trying to get people to fear him. I have no clue what it’s doing in this movie because it has nothing to do with either of the two main story lines. It’s also only mildly amusing.
All in all Bag Boy doesn’t go far enough in its sexiness, its humor or in it’s story. One thing you kind of hope for with a National Lampoon movie is lots of naked breasts and ridiculous humor but we don’t really get that here and it’s shame. Let’s keep the romantic comedies elsewhere.
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