Trailer Park Boys, the hit sitcom from Canada, has run been running for seven seasons and takes a documentary approach to life in a trailer park. Trailer Park Boys: Countdown to Liquor Day catches the series up to speed with a healthy mix of toilet humor and awkward situations.  Longstanding fans of the series will find a lot to like here while newbies will quickly fall in love with its unique premise and oddball characters.

Overview

Jim Lehay, (John Dunsworth) trailer park superintendant and douche bag extraordinaire is in for a world of hurt.  Julian, Ricky and Bubbles are about to finish another jail sentence and Julian swears yet again that he’s going to walk the straight and narrow.  Julian tells the parole board that he plans to open a successful auto body shop in his trailer.  Upon leaving the correctional facility, they steal a van, rob a store and return to Sunnyvale to find it in ruins.  Lahey’s been sober for two years and has turned Sunnyvale into a new park called Lahey’s Luxury Estates.

To complete the new community, Lehay needs to put in a sewer pipe that runs through Julian’s property.  Not willing to budge on the proposal offered to him presents a problem for Lahey’s future plans that starts a war between him and the boys that forces him to go back on the bottle.  It leads to Julian’s trailer getting destroyed, Randy leaving Lahey and the boys hatching a plan to rob a bank.  If none of that made any sense, don’t be discouraged.

Highlights

Nothing matches the sheer amount of awkward and bizarre humor this series offers. This film offered me plenty of moments where my jaw dropped at how ridiculous the things the boys did and said were.  Randy describing his new idea for selling pot is just insane.  Watching him steal an entire neighborhood's trash cans in order to do it is even more so.  It’s one crazy scenario after another filled with booze, idiots and profanity.  If those things don’t deter you, this film is a good way to spend an hour and forty minutes.

Trailer Park Boys: Countdown to Liquor Day is filmed in a single-camera, documentary style similar to shows like The Office and Parks and Recreation.  With that said, the film is a proverbial rollercoaster of quality with some scenes looking really great and others looking really grainy.  The sound quality is similar to the video with the track solid at times and hard to hear at others.  It’s part of what’s great about the original show, but as a film on Blu-ray, it doesn’t work so well.

Special Features

Trailer Park Boys: Countdown to Liquor Day comes as a single disc Blu-ray collection with the following special features:

• Audio commentary
• Deleted scenes including an alternate ending
• Sunnyvale Stories: The Making of The Countdown to Liquor Day featurette
• Randy Gets a New Look featurette
• Making of the Car Chase featurette

The alternate ending sees Lehay in jail along with the boys for peeing on some people while on vacation in Cuba.  It offers a bit more to the story and is a much more satisfying ending because of it.  The large quantity of deleted scenes bounce between extra scenes with the boys and others containing characters that weren’t featured in the film at all.  The scenes are all finished, which is a shame, because most of them are pretty funny.  The extended store robbery scene as well as the extra J-Roc bit is must see material.  

The Sunnyvale Stories featurette is the best of the lot and runs about 17 minutes.  It contains small interviews with the characters as they film the “documentary.”  It pokes a lot of fun at the film as a whole and the actors remain in their respective roles throughout.  It’s a lot more of what is great about this film as well as the series.  The Randy Gets a New Look featurette is a real quick behind the scenes of how they shaved his head for the film.  The Making of the Car Chase featurette covers the effects crew rigging up the van for the final car chase.

Overall

Trailer Park Boys: Countdown to Liquor Day isn’t a movie that excels on Blu-ray. The pseudo-reality show feel that it has been doing for seven seasons doesn’t work well in high-def. Despite that, Trailer Park Boys: Countdown to Liquor Day is a fun and crazy film that fans of the show as well as obscure comedies in general will love.  

ComicsOnline gives Trailer Park Boys: Countdown to Liquor Day 4 out of 5 bottles of Jack.

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