Welcome to the very first edition of Gary’s Every-Once-in-a-While-ey Movies That are Better Than Their Crappy Covers Make Them Look Column or Whatever the Blog Equivalent to a Column is Thing. This is going to be a feature where I review movies that are better than their crappy covers make them look, which I will do every once in a while in the format of a column or whatever the blog equivalent to a column is.

The first flick I will review is available in our New DVDs section, and frankly, I can’t understand why it hasn’t been snatched already. Actually, I guess it’s because the cover is crappy.

I mean, look at that piece of crap. Truly awful. But what is, is that… is who is… is that a beautiful… who’s that stud front and center? What? Paul Rudd, you say? Paul Rudd? Automatic qualification for watching a movie (unless it’s Over Her Dead Body, which I refuse to ever see).

However, much like Over Her Dead Body, this film covers the always-intriguing topic of death. Paul Rudd plays Paul Miller (big stretch, Rudd), an actor (once again, Rudd) who has struggled in Hollywood for years (resorting to making crappy movies like Over Her Dead Body, perhaps?) and is tired of living. Therefore, he decides to kill himself, but not without documenting his last 2 days of existence.  So he hires some friends to film him as he goes about saying goodbye to his loved ones, who, understandably, think he’s a bit crazy.

So does Paul give in? Does he die? Does the camera crew stop filming? Does he meet a strapping young woman and fall in love? Does he shoot himself in the mouth to destroy his alter-ego who has been setting up chaos organizations throughout the country? Watch this movie and you’ll soon see!

In all honesty, this movie, despite it’s crappy cover, works because of Rudd’s charisma and ability to hold an audience’s interest throughout. I would even argue that Rudd does some of his best work in a few parts, with a certain monologue scene in particular that might force you to develop a man-crush (which you should already have if you’ve ever seen Wet Hot American Summer). So yeah, buy this movie. It’s well worth the watch and we have a shiny new copy all ready to go for you!