DVDiculous: The Campaign

I finally decided to watch The Campaign after allowing my hatred of Casa De Mi Padre die down. You see, I like Will Ferrell. He’s a funny guy to me and I will watch almost anything with him in it. Zach Galifianakis on the other hand I can only take in very small doses. This movie has some parts that had me crack up laughing and others where I wished they would hurry up and start punching more babies. Yes, that happened in this movie. That baby got rocked! Ferrell plays Cam Brady who is running for Congress in North Carolina’s 14th District. He has won four times in a row and no one even goes up against him. He’s a total dick who sleeps around with any woman that looks at him. Oh, and he is married with two children as does Huggins.

After accidentally sending a voice message to thousands of homes instead of the woman he is sleeping with the Motch brothers played by John Lithgow and Dan Aykroyd decide to use a former Congressman’s son Marty Huggins to accomplish their goals of moving sweatshops from China to North Carolina to save on shipping costs.

They assign Tim Wattley played by Dylan McDermott to give Huggins a makeover. They get rid of their pugs because they’re Chinese and give them two Labradors. They give his wife a haircut and completely change the house. Wattley is one the best parts of the movie. He is a fucking lunatic. There's a scene where he catches the family having fun and has to shut that shit down.

Stop this!

Brady thinks that Huggins will be a pushover especially since they grew up together and Huggins was known as “Tickle Shits” because he would sit himself when tickled. They end up getting into a small fight when it is time to kiss a baby. This is where Brady ends up nailing a baby square across the jaw. Yes, they show the entire thing. Brady is mad that no one is asking him about how his hand feels.

Don't act like you never imagined this.

Huggins begins to get more popular so Brady decides to hit up other constituents. He goes to a Black church after being called out for not knowing the Lord’s Prayer. He goes to a snake church and is bitten and goes insane. He winds up with his arm eight times its normal size and crashes through the home of this poor family that he called with his nasty message earlier covered in mud and blood from a raccoon he ate because he needed ruffage. Brady gets popular again after the video of him getting bitten goes viral.

This is a good idea.

Brady and Huggins meet at Huggins’ home to try and be nice. Brady ends up drunk and Huggins calls the cops. They pulled him over and he ends up stealing the police car and then bringing it back when he realizes its not his car. Huggins films a video of him being nice to Brady’s son and pointing out that Brady is never around. Brady loses his shit and films himself sleeping with Huggins wife. Huggins then shoots Brady in the leg before a hunting campaign shoot which then makes Huggins more popular.

He needs his own movie.

Brady ends up winning the election after Huggins finds out just how evil the Motch brothers are. There’s a funny ass scene where Wattley pops into the shower with Brady and doesn’t even get wet and tells him that he is working with him now. Turns out the Motch brothers own the voting machines and rigged the election. Brady feels like shit after Huggins shows him a scar that goes from his arm, down his chest, and all the way down his leg that he got when they were kids on the slide that Brady was elected to tear down when they were younger.

Huggins ends up taking the Motch brothers to trial and bringing down other Congressmen. You find out that Wattley has a dozen alias the two funniest being Dermot Mulroney and “The Greek Butcher.” This movie didn’t need the touching moments and could’ve been sillier. It was funny but not as funny as it could’ve been. Oh, and Brady punched a dog too. The one from The Artist.

Smug bastard.