EBONY AND IVORY
Starring: Sky Elobar and Gil Gex
Director: Jim Hosking
This film has been reviewed by Nick and Quentin as part of Bitesize Breakdown's coverage of the 2024 Fantastic Film Festival.
NICK
What the fuck did I just watch? I haven't seen a film as painfully unfunny as Ebony and Ivory in some time. I spent the entire runtime wanting to turn it off, but didn't because I needed to review this thing in all its idiocy. The cheap imitations of Paul McCartney (Sky Elobar) and Stevie Wonder (Gil Gex) neither personify the actual people, nor provide a lick of laughs. I think we're supposed to laugh at Wonder displaying the symptoms of Tourette's syndrome? Because that’s clearly funny… God I hated this.
QUENTIN
As divisive as they are, I really enjoyed Jim Hosking’s The Greasy Strangler and An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn, so I was committed to seeing whatever off-kilter nonsense Hosking had cooked up with Ebony and Ivory. Woo, boy, is this some nonsense. It’s not so much a plotted movie as it is a collection of conversational anti-comedy skits, and despite a few quick-hitter moments that came ever-so-close to winning me over, they eventually undermine themselves for going on way too long. One almost needs to see it to believe how dumb and outlandish it is, but also, please don’t do that to yourself.