Co-creators Samberg and Murray Miller are back with a sports mockumentary but this time the subject is a fictional 1982 Tour de France race that featured doping scandals, cross-dressers, corruption, and good old-fashioned full-frontal nudity. There is so much to love about this film that I don't know where to begin. J.J. Abrams, who has a cameo as one of the talking heads in the movie (the amazingness of this film should already be apparent from the fact that they randomly have Abrams in the cast), probably delivers the most apt summary of the film, when he waxes poetic about the character development and perfect script of this absurd race.
This movie has the best comedy cast you could hope for - seeing all these actors pop up on your screen is half the fun, so I won't name names. Just prepare to be delighted, particularly by the one cameo of an actual athlete who features prominently in the whole affair. The script is packed with utterly spectacular jokes and if you don't find yourself bursting out laughing at least once during this inane spectacle, the only explanation can be that you're dead inside. Even now, I keep giggling about a joke involving cheetahs that is SO DUMB but SO GOOD.
Look, I get it, not everyone likes these kinds of comedies. They are hyperbolic and silly and bonkers from start to finish. But I truly view Tour de Pharmacy as an exquisite piece of craftsmanship. It is a tightly edited, joke-dense, lovingly shot and acted piece of epic comedy gold. And with a 39-minute run time, it does not remotely overstay its welcome. I could have easily watched a feature-length movie about this stupid race, but that just proves the director, Jake Szymanski, and writer, Murray Miller, know the true secret to comedy success. Leave the audience wanting more.
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