If The Foot Fist Way is your first encounter Danny McBride or Jody Hill, this is probably a four-star movie. It’s great fun and exciting to see how they made this movie with such a limited budget.
My issue is that I came to this after watching all of Eastbound & Down. Twice. I adore that filthy, unhinged show and The Foot Fist Way feels more like a dress rehearsal for that. So many of the same ideas are repeated between the two, but with Eastbound & Down the showmakers had more time, experience, and budget to do it well.
I’m on Team McBride & Hill for life and I’m so glad this movie got made, but I couldn’t quite enjoy it.
