Here is the ultimate Trailer Park Boys movie we have been waiting decades for, the truly magnificent Trailer Park Boys: Standing On The Shoulders Of Kitties, written by Mike Smith and directed by Charlie Lightening. It centers around Bubbles (Mike Smith), a humble former shopping cart repairman who lives in a shed full of cats in the Sunnyvale trailer park in Nova Scotia. He carries the memory of his long-left father by making music inspired by the old man’s trucking 8-tracks. He plays his compositions by himself at a nursing home once a week. He is working on entering a songwriting contest at a local radio station with a tune he has been working on called “Kitties Are So Nice.” However, he is getting pressure from his pals Ricky (Robb Wells) and Julian (John Paul Tremblay) to enter his more commercial concert crowd-pleaser “Liquor And W****s.”
Bubbles is able to get his song played on the air by Richie Spinz (Ryan Rogerson) and starts putting together his dream band, The S**t Rockers. The film follows the band’s rise as they go on the road on the Veteran’s Hall circuit, riding in a burger van owned by their roadie, Randy (Pat Roach). Bubbles struggles with a weak bladder and discovers that performing live in a prison doesn’t go as smoothly as it did for Johnny Cash. The S**t Rockers end up in Europe, opening for Billy Bob Thornton (Billy Bob Thornton) and his band, the Boxmasters. However, Bubbles’ old nemesis Tom Mayhue (Tom Mayhue), is the Boxmasters’ tour manager and is watching the S**t Rockers like a s**t hawk for any f**k-uppery.
“Bubbles struggles with a weak bladder and discovers that performing live in a prison doesn’t go as smoothly as it did for Johnny Cash.”
F**k me to tears, what a wonderful movie! Full disclosure: I am into the TV show Trailer Park Boys as deep as Trekkies are into the Star Trek series. For close to two decades, I have watched the intoxicated misadventures of the grooviest Canadian criminals ever. I also own an assortment of Trailer Park Boys t-shirts, ball caps, hockey jerseys, kitchen aprons, water pipes, and air fresheners. So, as any hardcore fan of the boys will tell you, they have a torturous record in the movie realm.
The first movie, The Trailer Park Boys Movie, was a condensed version of season one with a bunch of unnecessary body double nudity added. It was a misguided attempt to get the material to fit on the shelf with all the direct-to-video National Lampoon Presents DVDs. It was complete garbage. Their second movie, Countdown To Liquor Day, was one of the most heartless sequels ever made, determined to kick the s**t out of the audience for even liking the franchise. It was the kind of vicious c**t of a film that rips your nut sack off and makes you use it as a sick bag.
"…you will be laughing so hard you the joint will go out."
