(re)Search my Trash

<body> <div align="left"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="800" cellpadding="0" height="100%"> <tr> <td width="100" rowspan="3" background="../stylepix/square.gif" valign="top">  </td> <td width="4" rowspan="3"></td> <td width="592" height="1%" valign="top">  </td> <td width="4" rowspan="3"></td> <td width="100" rowspan="3" background="../stylepix/squareright.gif" valign="top">  </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="592" valign="top" height="99%">    <table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="205" align="right"> <tr> <td width="100%"> <p align="right"><img border="0" src="../stills/saberfrog-poster.jpg" width="200" height="289"></td> </tr> </table> <p>Josh's (J.D. Edmond) motto in life seems to be "generation X forever": He is studied something he don't really need, has accepted a job he didn't really want, and has stuck with it for years because he just doesn't know what else he might want from life. He's highly intelligent alright, but most of his intelligence goes into the endless consumption and analization of a series of sci-fi novels called <i>Vanguard Epsilon</i>.<p>Just like that then, Josh is fired from his job (well, it didn't come totally unannounced, Josh was just too much of a slacker to do something about it) ... and now what to do? Interestingly, <i>Vanguard Epsilon</i> seems to hold the answer, as he starts hearing voices inside his head, voices that tell him to get back with his best friends from college to revive the past glory days when they were all full of hope. Josh listens to these voices and soon enough has collected Terrence (Reuben Tapp), a former rapper and actor who has since launched a successful (if featureless) business career, Terrence's ex Laurel (Liz Mariani), a former groupie who has since become a (successless) musician, and her husband Bert (John Karyus), a record store owner with a weakness for Canadian underground porn.<p>Together, the four of them visit their old campus ... to find out everything has changed, everyone they have once looked up to has either died ... or gone rogue, like their former professor Garrison (John Sindoni), who has eventually turned out to be a mean racist with a tendency of starting suicide cults.<p>Maybe, this letdown should have discouraged Josh, but he's drawn on by the voices, which call him to Canada, to find another member of his circle of friends, Aymee (Wendy Foster), Garrison's assistant - and once he finds her, things get totally out of hands ...<p>By the way, the titular "Saberfrog" is Vanguard Epsilon's animal of choice.<p> <p>Basically, <b>Saberfrog</b> is a loving but also enjoyably mean hommage to all these representations of generation X-ers in film and literature, representations that all too often celebrate the generation's lack of ambition and aimlessness (e.g. Richard Linklater's <b>Slacker</b>, Kevin Smith's <b>Clerks</b> and of course <i>Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture</i> by Douglas Coupland). <b>Saberfrog</b> finally returns motivation to the X, even if at first it seems like a product of a creeping schizophrenia to finally turn out to be something much more sinister (in a bizarre sci-fi sort of way) - and that's what makes this film so viciously funny, too, as it starts out as a lovely yet slightly irreverent nostalgia, but then gains momentum every step along the way, with every new and even more insane plottwist - and the end product is a really fun trip ... down memory lane? Perhaps, but taking a detour you haven't yet even thought of. <p> <p>Oh, and if this has gotten you at all interested, you might want to get this movie here: <a href="http://www.saberfrog.com/index.html" target="_blank"><b>http://www.saberfrog.com/index.html</b></a>. </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="592" valign="top" height="1%">  <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> currentyear = "2013"; </SCRIPT> <SCRIPT language="JavaScript" src="../scripts/endcredits.js"></SCRIPT> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> dosworsdonn(); </SCRIPT> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </body>