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...directed by Bob Gale (creator of "Back to the Future"), presents this coercion in a new light. The 20-minute movie, which you're invited to experience twice, is like a filmed Choose Your Own Adventure, except that audience members engage in a putative competition to determine the plot twists...
...clients against those who have done them wrong." An opening sequence introduces viewers to our hero and his attractive hacker sidekick Gwen (Holly Fields). Mr. Payback states his motto, "Don't piss me off!" and his mission, to rectify the evils of society. Then viewers choose from three plot lines, each one more politically correct than the last. In one, a woman has been sexually harrassed; in another, a black man has been fired form his job and cheated out of a large sum of money; in the third an hispanic man has been discriminated against and called a "taco...
Just like a "Brady Bunch" episode, the film's plot neatly proceeds from dumb to dumber. Next door neighbor Mr. Ditmeyer (played annoyingly by Michael McKean) tries to get the Bradys to sell their house so he can turn the neighborhood into a minimall. The Bradys refuse, of course, because, as Mr. Brady (Gary Cole) says, "I love the house, my wife loves the house, the kids love the house, Alice loves the house..." They love the house...
From this point, it's pretty clear where the plot is headed. Just two major twists remain. First, we learn that the Tsar has been comatose for six months, leaving his wife, the power-hungry feminist Empress Uponyou, in charge of the country. (The Empress is an early version of a two-career woman, running Russia while caring for her daughter, the bratty, psychopathic Princess Ivanna Tention...
...annual Hasty Pudding Theatricals production to see gut-wrenching drama or incisive social commentary," Grunwald wrote on this page three years ago. "You don't go to see professional acting, professional singing, professional dancing. You don't go to see a plot. You go to the Pudding show to see just that--a show. A spectacle. Big, hairy guys wearing skimpy dresses, disguising their husky voices, wiggling their butts, behaving like goofballs, inverting the social order...