#killing hasselhoff

This is exactly what doesn’t work with a lot of comedies, and why so many of them end up swept under the rug and forgotten. They all fall back on the most obvious, tasteless shock humor, stereotypes, and jokes about sex and drugs. And I’m not saying that jokes about sex and drugs are completely void of substance; some of the greatest comedies of all time have them, like Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Life of Brian… But the thing is, these movies have variety in their jokes, it’s not just endless, relentless stereotypes, drugs, and sex jokes, and that is literally all Killing Hasselhoff is.

There is offensively stereotypical gays, there are jokes at the expense of the overweight and people with dwarfism, there’s the typical race related stuff you can expect when they cast Ken Jeong in a movie… Frankly it makes me a bit sad Ken Jeong keeps getting stuck in trashy comedies, because here as in everything else he actually does have some pretty good comedic skills, but they’re suffocated underneath the awful performances of nearly everyone else. I really have to say the gay, black hitman is the worst part of this movie. It’s almost intelligent and subversive, considering at first he displays no stereotypically gay qualities to him, so it seems this trashy comedy is almost going to pull off something progressive… then immediately afterwards he starts reminding the audience he’s gay every moment, saying stuff like “Whose dick do I have to suck around here...” and even attempts to rape David Hasselhoff at one point. YIKES.

Beyond this though, there’s not much to really comment on with this movie. It’s nothing but a long string of offensive, tasteless jokes that don’t land that wastes the talents of Ken Jeong, Jon Lovitz, and David Hasselhoff. It’s an awful, tasteless, unfunny film that I just can’t imagine would appeal to anyone because it feels like it goes out of its way to offend everyone. It’s barely worth watching unless you really just want to see Hasselhoff, and even then there are so many better things you could watch him in.