Critics Think Kevin Smith’s ‘Yoga Hosers’ Is the Wurst: 7 Terrible Reviews of Bratwurst Nazi Comedy
Kevin Smith‘s “Yoga Hosers” takes aim at critics who have regularly ripped his movies throughout his career, but they’re blasting right back in the mostly awful reviews of his latest comedy.
“Yoga Hosers,” the second in Smith’s “True North” trilogy after “Tusk” landed with a thud in theaters in 2014, stars his own daughter, Harley Quinn Smith, and Johnny Depp‘s daughter, Lily Rose Depp, as Canadian convenient store clerks who must battle an army of mutant bratwurst Nazis.
According to the reviews, the charismatic young stars are the highlight of the movie, which is otherwise dismissed for not being particularly funny, relying on bad CGI, and having a messy plot.
The movie hits limited theaters on Friday, and currently has a 26 percent approval rating from 31 mostly disappointed critics counted on Rotten Tomatoes.
The consensus the critic aggregator offers is as cruel as the reviews it’s summarizing: “Undisciplined, unfunny, and bereft of evident purpose, Yoga Hosers represents a particularly grating low point in Kevin Smith‘s once-promising career.”
Set, like his last bad film, ‘Tusk,’ in Canada – and bringing back some of the same characters, and many of the same actors – it’s an ugly, awkward, self-indulgent and incredibly unfunny mess of a movie, made up out of half-forgotten ‘DeGrassi High’ memories and feeble tributes to ’80s horror flicks.
Oh, and a small army of tiny, recently revived Nazi soldiers – made out of bratwurst, sauerkraut and a mad scientist’s DNA — out to exterminate the world’s critics.
[...] if you’re going to release them as feature films, at least respect viewers enough to try to make something that makes sense.
Smith’s trajectory from the smart and heartfelt ‘Clerks’ and ‘Chasing Amy’ to the truly atrocious ‘Yoga Hosers’ is both fascinating and disappointing.
The idea is that a scientist friend of his created a nazi clone army, which wind up being mini-bratwurst sausage people, all played by Smith himself, who kill people by crawling up their anuses.
Thankfully, Canadians are generally known to have a good sense of humor but if they were ever to declare war on the United States, it’s likely to be over something as blatantly offensive as Yoga Hosers, and who would blame them?
Crappy title aside, there’s an equally crappy story at play here, one involving rapey upper classmates inviting the Colleens to a party, only to try to sacrifice them to the devil while townspeople are being killed by these tiny creatures that drill up their buttholes.
