Bangers of a feather
stick together: that’s the life lesson we learned in Fubar… well that and how to give’r.
The 2002 comedy by Calgary filmmaker Michael Dowse introduced us to hoser headbanger
best buds Dean (Paul Spence, left in the above pic) and Terry (David Lawrence,
right), whose mission and ambition in life is to drink beer, listen to metal
and party hard – you know, just give’r.
The
mockumentary reworked the hoser archetype for a new generation that grew up
knowing (or were!) white guys with long, feathered hair, tight jeans, lumberjack
jackets, too many AC/DC cassettes and more often than not, an appetite for
drunken destruction.
Now the hurtin’ Albertans – kind of a mix between Bob and
Doug and Beavis and Butthead – are back in Fubar
II: Dean and Terry Head North, which is currently shooting in Alberta. To properly
celebrate this modern Canadian comedy classic, I should drink a twelve of Pil, blow the dust
off my Maximum Overdrive soundtrack
and throw a garbage can through a bus stop window, but alas, I’ll have to just
write something about the new movie instead.
This week I received a press release about the sequel (which
included the above shot). So, first off, the synopsis:
The story starts in Calgary where the boys are tired of trying to give’r while
barely scraping by, when their old buddy and party leader, Tron (Andrew Sparacino) hooks them up with
jobs in Fort McMurray.
Before long they are rolling in dough and good times. Flush with money and
confidence, Terry starts dating Trish (Terra
Hazelton), a local waitress, and things get serious in a hurry.
Meanwhile, Dean is playing up the part of the cancer survivor, and upon hearing
about the glories of workers’ compensation, purposely bungs up his leg in an
attempt to qualify. When Terry moves in with Trish, Dean does his best to save
his buddy from swapping the banger life for domestic captivity.
Sounds solid. Get Dean and Terry out of the city and up to
the oilfields in the North of the province, give them too much money and then
introduce an element that’ll test their friendship.
One of things that made Fubar
so popular is that everyone knew/knows guys like Dean and Terry – especially in
Alberta, where a lot of ‘em end up in the oil patch, working hard, partying
harder and 
getting into trouble because they have a fat pay cheque, steam to
blow off and not much else to do in a small(ish) town other than, y’know, give’r.
It’s exactly the kind of place Dean and Terry would seek out – the kind of town
where the sun never sets on moustaches and denim. (Plus, their married buddy
Tron is returning, and everybody loves Tron, even if Terry and Dean occasionally get drunk and write that he "funkin' blows.".)
Like the first film, this one was also co-written by Dowse, Spence
and Lawrence,
so that bodes very well. Hopefully the film is only using a working title for
now, though, as Dean and Terry Head North
is uninspired, and definitely needs to have its suck turned down.
Regardless, the film started shooting on November 16th,
in Edmonton, and is set to wrap in Fort McMurray on December
16th, so it’ll be a while before we’ll see Fubar II in theatres (and I really hope it goes to theatres). In
the meantime, though, there’s some hilarious content posted on the movie’s
official blog site, which you need to visit, here. There are bunch of hilarious videos
and pics of Terry and Dean posted, and a link to Dean’s Twitter page, but the best
thing on there is actually a rap video by Tron
himself, Andy Sparacino, about his testes. This needs to become a viral hit
ASAP.
Lastly, there’s no word on what will be on the sequel’s soundtrack,
but if it has at least one gem as good as The New Pornographer’s cover
of Toronto’s “Your Daddy Don’t Know” (it rarely leaves my mp3 player),
which is on the Fubar soundtrack, it’ll
put a spring in my white high-tops.
Dean, Terry: welcome back, boys. May all your six packs be
cold, your hats be leather and all your lawn chairs be flammable. We’re
countin’ on you to give’r for all us sinners.
-Dave Alexander
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