Not to be confused with an adaptation of “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” comedy troupe Broken Lizard’s “Quasi” tells a story that’s truer to the Oxford definition of its title than the 1831 Victor H…
settles uneasily into the director’s seat usually occupied by colleague Jay Chandrasekhar for an underdog story more interested in leveraging funny pronunciations of French words for underwhelming laughs than in creating real characters — much less a visual backdrop that doesn’t look like a second-rate Renaissance Faire.
When he finally meets the pope, Quasi receives conflicting orders: Kill Guy instead. So he hatches a plan with Catherine to fake his death, but Duchamp, resentful of Quasi’s newfound popularity, reveals his pal’s hiding place to Lucien , their torture-chamber supervisor.
The fact that the film was made inexpensively, though not a vice in and of itself, is not especially compensated for by Joe Collins’ cinematography, which renders Heffernan’s compositions flat, stagy and small. Only a sex scene in a dungeon achieves a modest degree of atmosphere, but it’s purposefully undercut by Lemme’s slurping as the ill-mannered Quasi — a comic juxtaposition the rest of the film seldom exploits.
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