P.G. Psycho Goreman (2021)



It's 1994.  A 5 year old Andrew is up at 7:00 A.M. on a Saturday, with a bowl of Captain Crunch no less, watching Saturday morning cartoons and Power Rangers, just waiting for some crazy monster action.  It's 2005.  A 16 year old Andrew is flipping through HBO at midnight and stumbles across the crazed sci-fi, black comedy that is Alex Winter's Freaked.  It is now 2021, the time streams have converged,  we all three meet, high-five, and then scream in excitement towards the television screen that is now showing P.G. Psycho Goreman.

January is usually known as the dump month for cinema.  Very rarely will a film have a release during this time that sticks with me through the rest of the year.  Even rarer, a film that I would say I would say is one of the best things of the year.  We are only 27 days into the new year (at the time of this review) and I can safely say that Psycho Goreman not only will be in my top 10 films of this year, but more than likely the top 3.  I...LOVE this film.  Let myself be perfectly clear, this is not a film for everyone.  You will either hate it or love it, and when I say love it I mean LOVE it.  P.G. Psycho Goreman is a play on the classic trope of 80s/90s films of children befriending some monster or space creature and learning an important lesson.  P.G. Psycho Goreman is that type of film, only this time the monster is an evil murderous alien set out to destroy all life in the galaxy with very bloody and gorey results and we learn a heart-warming message about the importance of family.  If you were to take E.T., GWAR, Power Rangers, some Troma inspired lewdness, and place them into a blender, you get this disgustingly delicious fast food concoction that you know is going to ruin your stomach, but you crave it all the same.  

P.G. Psycho Goreman follows a brother and sister team who accidentally dig up this intergalactic monster, but in doing so have possession of a magic crystal that allows the children to control his every action.  Over the course of the film, we are gifted with the wacky adventures they go through and cheer on the bloody aftermath.  The film pulls no punches and is fully aware of what it is and you are either with it or not.  The humor in this film is also on point as well as there were times I had tears rolling I was laughing so hard. Does this movies have a scene in which P.G. rips the heads and spines out of some people? You betcha.  Do we get an intergalactic power ranger-esque fight where P.G. dismantles, guts, and eats his enemies hole (ala a snake)? You better believe it.  Do we get a 90s rap that recaps the entire movie just like the cinema classic Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Secret of the Ooze?  Hell yes we do! The performances are (chefs kiss) glorious as well.  Matthew Ninaber as P.G. Psycho Goreman can carry the intimidating force that P.G. needs while still being hysterically funny as our "straight man." Nita-Josee Hanna as Mimi is a force to be reckoned with and boy does she carry this film with her chaotic, narcissistic behavior as the controller of P.G.  Another stand-out for me is Adam Brooks, who plays the father of the children and plays a slacker dad who cooks microwave meal dinners and sits about begging for the recognition he does not deserve.  

I cannot recommend this movie enough and I loved how this movie drives the creative in me and reminds me that you should work on that dream, no matter how crazy it is, just hope for the best and hopefully someone comes along for the ride. 

4.5 out of 5 Stars

Recommended viewing: Freaked, Power Rangers, Toxic Avenger, Sgt. Kabuiki Man N.Y.P.D. 


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