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You know what? You lose me straight away when your movie's protagonist
is named 'Zap Rowsdower'. The second I hear him identified as 'Zap
Rowsdower' I am squeezing past you and climbing over your legs and
muttering "excuse me" and I am getting the hell out of the movie. Only
this time I couldn't because I was at work and I'm hourly and I had used
up all my vacation and sick time. How about Plink Holmgren? Or Pow
Flowhauer?
This film gives us insight into the banality of banality and would have
us believe that murderous cults are a bad thing. Zap Rowsdower is a guy
who was in a cult, then he either dropped out or got kicked out - hang
on, I gotta go check with Paul Chaplin about the plot of this film.
Sorry, I'm back, he didn't know much about this movie either. Anyway,
Zap Rowsdower befriends Troy, whose father was killed by Zap when Zap
was in the cult. Zap took a leave of absence from the cult and does
battle with the boss of the cult because the boss wants Zap back in the
cult. Just a sec, I'm gonna go check with Mike Nelson, ask him if he
remembers anything about this film... thanks for waiting - Mike was not
sure but was mostly upset about how women were portrayed in the film.
Troy is understandably miffed when he learns that Zap is the guy who is
responsible for his father's death. But Zap has turned out to be a good
friend, albeit with hockey hair, so what is Troy to do? Somehow at the
end, the two become fast friends.

The film was made in Canada, which explains a lot. Just between you and
me and the wall, I think a major error was made in their film
archetype-ology. Zap was clearly supposed to be the intermediary guy;
the hard-drinking, tough-but-lovable, car-won't-start sidekick to the
hero.
However, we were short one hero, and its not till the end of
the movie that you realize that Troy and Zap's journey isn't to bring
Troy to the hero (to whom Zap should be the sidekick), but in fact, Zap
is the hero. Excuse me... sorry... can I just squeeze by you... watch
your pop...
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