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A high school student travels to California to spend his summer break. A few hours after buying a car, he finds out that there is a 300 pound dead man's body stuck in the trunk.
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Review by Ginose
Added: August 14, 2010
It's always nice to get a good black-comedy in the mail. You can have the bleakest day imaginable, but to laugh at a series of morbid atrocities that make light of horrible situations can always make you crack a smile. The same can be said for "Overloaded", though it tends to back off the "black-comedy" aspect and relates itself to more of a character work. A blessing and a curse, I'll tell you, but I wouldn't be much of a reviewer if I didn't give you the plot first.
So, Josh finally arrives in sunny L.A., just in time to pick-up his "new" car at the airport; sold to him for a low price by a guy on Craigslist, referred to him by his internet girlfriend, Betty. Excited by it and his new GPS he heads to stay with his cousin Kip and his Vietnam-vet roommate, Hank. Hank, however, is not in the least bit excited about having to look after some 15 year-old tourist, nor is Kip amused when he discovers that Hank spent almost all of his cash on this car.
Well, after a bit of arguing and explaining, Hank finally pops the locked trunk to find out what load has been weighing the ride down, and, low-and-behold, the overloaded car is filled with nothing but wasted money and a working headlight... along with a 300-pound corpse in the trunk.
Now this is a charming work, if ever I've seen one. It has an alarmingly interesting cast of characters with great, funny and easily lovable performances, though this, in the grand-view of it all, may be a bad thing: All this greatness makes for a great comedy, and a great comedy should last.
The film itself is a pitch-black, comedy-of-errors that never lets off the personality quirks of the leads for even a moment, this all amounts to a rather interesting pace and story, but given that the film is only 18-minutes long. It gets a great, amusing pace going, it gives fun characters in amusing situations, but there is only so much you can fit into the limited running time which begs to mention that I would absolutely LOVE to see a feature-length version of "Overloaded" sometime in the future.
So, in short, when the only real complaint you have about a film is that there wasn't enough of it, then it's a pretty fucking great film. "Overloaded" is a great film, no question.
7.9/10.
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