What Is "The Comedy?"

I've been waiting on "The Comedy," which now has a proper teaser-trailer, for awhile now - pretty much ever since it caused a storm of walk-outs and furious rebukes at Sundance. I've heard it described as an anti-mumblecore mumblecore movie, in that it's another "observational comedy" about priviliged white male hipsters... where the principal "observation" is that priviliged white male hipsters are frequently such terrible fucking people:


 

The film stars comedian and certified secret-badass Tim Heidecker of "Tim & Eric" (Eric Wareheim is also onhand) as the nominal leader of a group of thirtysomething Williamsburg manchildren who spend their days (and their money) slacking around and treating the world around them - people and all - as playthings they're already bored with. The main plot supposedly concerns Heidecker's character being on the verge of inheriting his dying father's fortune and somehow becoming an even worse excuse for a human being as a result. I'm kind of hoping that it has more to say than "See this? THIS is what you look like!" But we'll see.




Movie hits VOD in October before a theatrical run in November.