The Slammin’ Salmon is the latest film from comedy troupe Broken Lizard (Super Troopers, Club Dread, Beerfest) starring them along with Michael Clarke Duncan, April Bowlby, and How I Met Your Mother‘s Cobie Smulders.  It’s about a Miami seafood restaurant owned by an eccentric champion boxer (Duncan).  One night he needs to earn $20,000 to pay off a bet or lose the restaurant so a challenge is given to the waiters to see who can earn the most money in a single night.

An excuse to post Cobie pics.

April Bowlby is pretty too.

I first heard of this movie a long time ago back when Broken Lizard signed a several picture deal with a studio.  But then it seemingly disappeared.  Now it’s back and coming out on DVD and Blu-Ray April 13th.

At first it seems to be a pretty good premise that’s ripe for comedy.  Until you realize you’ve seen it already.  The relatively bad Waiting… pretty much covered a lot of the same territory as this movie.  It’s not entirely bad, it’s just kind of “been there, done that”.  It has some funny parts, but is mostly too predictable for it’s own good.  Also the first scene really has absolutely nothing to do with the rest of the movie and could have easily been cut or at least re-written to in some way make more sense to the overall film.  Another complaint is that there isn’t really any closure to the movie, it sort of just ends without resolving anything with the characters.  No one progresses, there’s no arc for anyone.  Everything pretty much ends where it began.

This is mostly unimpressive but it does have it’s moments.  You can pick it up from Amazon using the links below: