Hell & Back (2015)

Curt (Rob Riggle) breaks a Satanic blood oath over a breath mint and gets sucked into a vortex that doesn't take him to Barnes and Noble. Remy (Nick Swardson) and Augie (T.J. Miller) follow in an effort to rescue him. They encounter a number of characters and a Devil who runs hell like a corporation.First off, this is NOT for kids unless bad language and crude sexual references are okay with you. At times the humor was masterful and at other times it was just lame and crude.To give you an idea of the humor: "Hell- you're here for a reason or else you're Jewish.""Please clean up after yourself your mother doesn't work here unless she was a wh@r#."The Devil is dysfunctional similar to the South park devil. The film looks like 3D claymation. Mila Kunis had a hot demon character.Guide: F-bomb. No sex. Ugly demon nudity. Plenty of crude sex talk. A good film for those that like the crude humor of teen sex comedies but none of the nudity.

I really don't know exactly how "not good" it is because I could only stand about ten minutes of it. Cliché from the get go, it seems to be a raunch fest of bad potty jokes and low sexual humor. I'm pretty sure I would have thought it was lame when I was in junior high. The movie was so shallow, I have to make stuff up to get the required five lines to submit a review.

The Three Acts: The initial tableaux: Remy and Augie work at a run-down carnival, Remy as a hawker, and Augie as the handyman/fixer. The biggest attraction is called 'Gates to H*ll' and it breaks down recurrently. The budget is limited for spare parts and safety features, 'run-down' is probably a stable state, especially after the bank foreclosure. Their life-long friend Curt has responsibilities at the park, but no authority. Curt's boss is a dedicated zoned-out doper. Will there be upgrades to make the park competitive, or even safe? Probably not.Remy looks for some hail Mary action to save the park, but instead settles on a book of Madame Zonar's concerning Beelzebub. Curt asks Remy for a mint, and Remy gets Curt to seal a blood oath on the book that he will pay back the mint. Curt openly admits that he lied. This breaking of the oath activates the dormant Gates of H*ll ride. Curt gets pulled down. While the vortex is still active, Remy and Augie follow into H*ll, so as to find Curt and save his sorry self.Delineation of conflicts: The Devil would like to have sex with Barb the Angel. Barb knows this, and leverages it into having the Devil find Remy and Augie, so that she can get 'save the misplaced mortals' off her To Do list.Remy and Augie are looking for Orpheus, since he was able to walk out of hell with a person who was condemned. Deema the half-demon is looking for Orpheus for her own reasons.One of the demon unions is p#ssed that there have not been enough sacrifices lately. Curt gets nominated, largely to his ill-considered speech, and his sacrifice becomes a big event in Hell.Curt tries negotiating directly with the Devil, who has to deal with the demon union.Resolution: Can the protagonists save Curt? Will Curt save himself?

This movie is terrible but it's one of the best terrible movies I have ever seen. It was absolutely hilarious although immature. I don't think it deserves as low of a rating as it got simply because it was quite a good movie. I'm sure this film is directed at some low brow humor but it actually is really good. At the risk of sounding like a broken record, this movie is really, freaking good. If you like movies you don't have to pay too much attention to but still have a good time, you'll love this. It's original, it's funny and hey, it's better than anything Adam Sandler's doing these days. The crude sexual humor gets slightly annoying at times and you feel like you should tell these people that hey, you don't have to try that hard, but it really is a witty portrayal and like I've said too many times already. It's actually really funny.