The Beach Bum

Rated R
1 hour 35 minutes
Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Snoop Dogg, Isla Fisher, Jonah Hill

This movie was horrible!!!  It was easily one of the worst movies I’ve seen in a long time!  I can’t believe Matthew McConaughey even took this role.  He plays Moondog, a stoner just living life and having fun, all on his own terms.  I’m still not even sure what the point of this movie was!  I guess he was a poet at some point and had some of his works published, but had gone downhill enjoying his alcohol and drugs a little too much.  Now, he needs to get his life back together enough to be published again so that he can inherit a fortune from his wife that died in a car accident.  I can kind of see what this movie was trying to do, but even with all of the big names in it, it still failed on almost every level that you could fail!  The whole film felt like I was following a guy around that was almost always either drunk or stoned or just not following the rules of society.  It wasn’t fun, it wasn’t funny, and it wasn’t even a good story.  It was just a waste of time!

Library Link: The Beach Bum (DVD)