“Longshot” was once created to money in at the acclaim for acts like NSYNC, Britney Spears, and O-The city, amongst others. Alas, this 2001 stinker is a some distance cry from “The T.A.M.I. Display.” Fanatics of the musical acts represented within the movie might get a kick out of the movie’s sensibilities, however the principle plot is a plodding story of 2 brothers (Tony DeCamillis and Joey Sculthorpe) making an attempt to break out the wrath of a rich villain (Paul Sorvino). It is half-sitcom and half-crime drama, and none of it really works.
The movie’s handiest saving grace is that it options extra inexplicable cameos than a “Sharknado” movie, together with individuals of LFO, Innosense, Take 5, C-Notice, Complete Pressure, and, um, Kenny Rogers. No, in reality. It additionally options more than one actors from “Stored By way of The Bell,” just because it could actually.
Gilbert Gottfried seems in brief as Mr. Chadwick, beneath whom the older brother works as a tune retailer clerk. Gottfried wrings some authentic laughs from audience; our favourite is when he calls for to know what a headphone-wearing buyer on the retailer is listening to by means of again and again screaming at them, “What are you listening to?!” He additionally will get to proportion a scene with the freshest pop superstar of the early 2000s, Artwork Garfunkel. Critically, “Longshot” is a unusual movie. It is nigh-unwatchable by itself deserves, however we are nonetheless thankful for its life.