‘Micro Budget’ Review – A Comedy Of Spirals
Micro Budget is less a comedic mockumentary than it is a thoroughly demented behind-the-scenes special feature for a disaster movie that doesn’t exist. Directed by Morgan Evans and written by himself and Patrick Noth (who also stars as the director), the comedy film uses conventions from Christopher Guest’s brand of filmmaking and workplace sitcoms with a hint of Tim Robinson-esque humor to propel it. Evans and Noth weave in plenty of jokes throughout the film, assuring that if this one doesn’t work, the next one will. Terry (Noth) directs a dream movie of his about a meteor cratering the earth in a deadly impact on Toronto. The behind-the-scenes feature chronicles every single thing that goes on behind the camera, for better or worse. There’s a few things going on here: the surface-level Office -type verité shooting style and delivery, the character study of each member of the film’s talent and production crew, and the movie-within-a-movie itself. The former’s effec...