Too Fat for 40 (2010)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2010
	Director: Zak Charles Knutson
	Actors: Kevin Smith (Die Hard 4.0)
	Country: USA
	Genre: Comedy
	Conditions of visioning: 26.06.2014, DVD, Home cinema
Synopsis: A Q&A organized by the stand-up comedian/actor/director on the day of his 40th birthday in his home town.
Review: Kevin Smith is not only known for the movies he directed like Clerks, Chasing Amy, Dogma... He is also known to be very funny when answering questions from fans, be it at Comicon, on Internet, or at dedicated Q&A shows he organizes in theaters. Those shows are usually planned to last two hours but can extend up to seven hours! Too Fat for 40 is neither a movie nor a documentary, but the DVD of a 4-hour long show that I bought in preparation to the NIFFF2014, so I decided to review it here. The title refers to the fact that Smith made hear about himself a lot when he was refused to board a plane because of being too large. But he talks only a little about that incident during the show. Actually he makes an introduction of about 30 minutes, then a guy asks one question (basically how was it to work with Bruce Willis on Cop Out) and Smith takes three hours to answer it! During that time he will have spoken about his acquisition of a bus allowing him to avoid airlines, his first experiences of smoking Marijuana and his recent new status of Stoner, the sexual habits of his couple, his friends, the relative failure of Zack and Miri make a Porn, leading him to direct for the first time a movie written by someone else and starring one of his idols: Bruce Willis. After humorously describing the special character of the 80's action hero with many anecdotes, he finally answered the one question. On a second DVD, we get to see him answer (shorty this time) about 6 questions asked as Encore to the main show. All of it is rather funny (especially the part about Bruce Willis), often with strong language but not abusively, and educational about being a director.
Rating: 6 /10