Polyp & Corbin Take Over (2000)

The Digital Video Revolution offers many exciting and interesting opportunities for the average person to pick up a camera and make a film or a work of visual art. Along with this wonderful freedom comes the opportunity for the non-average person to do exactly the same thing. Unfortunately, this is what happens with "Polyp & Corbin Take Over." Writer/Director Corbin Supak has unleashed on an unsuspecting audience one of the most boring, slapdash, amateurish and downright masturbatory pieces of crud to ever see the light of day.

It is obvious from the beginning that this will be the case. The film uses some of the most cheesy and flat looking computer graphics to introduce the film. The opening sequence becomes this ragtag video art piece that thinks it's bold and daring because it utilizes cut and paste images of female breasts. Generally trying desperately to be electronically artistic, the film falls into the grasp of mundane and insipid.

The plot of this film is so obscured and pointless as to be hilarious. The questionably named Polyp and her slacker husband Corbin leave the cool urban apartment they exist within for a planned community called "Strawberry." Evoking "The Steppford Wives" and numerous other "real" artworks, Supak has "Strawberry" seem like an obvious "Westworld" from the start, you know, if "Westworld" we're run by ITT Tech dropouts. After they are seen for the "thinking" people that they supposedly are (i.e. they do not adapt to the robotic commune existence of Strawberry"), the duo head back to the city. One returned, Corbin invents a electronic suit that allows the wearer to sample certain computer generated sounds by touching himself and therefore creating a personally generated cacophony of sound. The suit is a huge success and the film ends with the bewildered couple on a infomercial seemingly as stymied by the "outside world" as they were by the commune. This film is jaw-dropping in it's vapidity and pointlessness. I can honestly say that I do not have one iota of an inkling of what the fuck Supak is trying to do here.

Supak leads a group of obvious friends and sycophants in the cast. None of them, not one, can act worth a damn. Supak attempts to portray, I think, a heterosexual male. He is not capable of making us suspend disbelief in this matter for one second. At some points, it seems like Supak is attempting to be some sort of cybernetic John Waters but this is far too complimentary to be an accurate reflection of the piece of absolute drivel that is "Polyp & Corbin Take Over."

I know I can be a harsh asshole critic sometimes but truly, truly, this is one of the biggest pieces of dung I have ever seen in my life.

Note:

With a small role played by Courtney Davis, Competition Film Programmer of the Austin Film Festival.

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