![]() Do the Satanists and the arrival of the Bratzis have any sort of connection? Is there a reason Canadian Nazi Andronicus Arcane (Ralph Garman) does Robert De Niro, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Adam West impressions, besides the fact that Garman can do these impressions? No and no. Still, no two plots ever tie together in any meaningful way. But Lapointe makes far more sense in the context of Yoga Hosers, and his frustrations with the Colleens proves some of Yoga Hosers’ only redeemable moments. In Tusk, Lapointe completely derailed a film that was already well on its way to going off the tracks. Surprisingly, the one celebrity appearance that actually works is that of Johnny Depp, reprising his role as detective Guy Lapointe. Each new character sets up one slight detail before passing the film to the next nearby celebrity. Maurice (Vanessa Paradis) introduces a flashback for Canada’s version of Hitler, played by Haley Joel Osment. Unsurprisingly, the film’s cameo-laden first half is only that: It serves no enjoyable purpose besides providing context-less, heavy-handed exposition. Subsequently, Yoga Hosers becomes a film about the Colleens taking out these tiny bratwurst baddies, which then becomes a film about an underground plot care of the Canadian Nazi party. Then: Enter tiny sausage Nazis-known as Bratzis-who rectally enter the boys, killing them. Two teenage boys (Austin Butler and Tyler Posey) who come to the convenience store to hang out with the Colleens turn out to be Satan worshippers, planning to kill the girls to take their virgin souls. To say there is a plot to Yoga Hosers is an overstatement: Mostly, random things just happen to occur in the vicinity of the Colleens. (Harley Quinn Smith)-spend their time working at a convenience store and going to a strip mall yoga instructor (Justin Long), all the while rarely looking up from their phones. In it, two very minor characters from Tusk-Colleen C. the World-which are better films that the upcoming generation of teen girls should watch instead of Yoga Hosers. ![]() So Smith created Yoga Hosers, borrowing heavily from films like Clueless and Scott Pilgrim vs. Raising a daughter, Smith wanted to give the young women of the next generation a film to compare to the near-constant, male-centric superhero films being released. While Tusk was simply a podcast conversation turned into a full-blown film, Yoga Hosers has more noble intentions as its inspiration. His passion for storytelling has evolved from personal reflections on everyday life into one attempt after another to see how deep he can delve into insanity and still find funding. With his company, Smith is practically daring himself to make the most batshit ideas he can come up with into films. Smith has however since cancelled said retirement with the creation of SModcast Pictures, a production company behind a series of films-like his 2014 film Tusk, and now Yoga Hosers, both part of his Canadian trilogy-that often borrow largely from his podcast of the same name. He didn’t want to tell stories his heart wasn’t in. Several years ago, Smith hinted at an impending retirement, stating that he lacked personal stories from which to draw on for inspiration. ![]() Love him or hate him, Smith took his dreams and made them a reality, telling the stories he wanted to tell exactly how he wanted to tell them. ![]() Armed with ambition, plus several thousands of dollars from maxed out credit cards and refunded film school money, Smith set out to put his friends and the things they found funny on the big screen with Clerks. Kevin Smith’s rise to fame has become the stuff of independent cinema legend.
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