National Lampoon: Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead
The film is a look at the history of the American comedy publication and production company, National Lampoon, from its beginning in the 1970s to 2010, featuring rare and never-before-seen footage.
18 February 1950, Lansing, Michigan, USA
28 June 1946, Detroit, Michigan, USA
1952, New York City, New York, USA
18 February 1933, Tokyo, Japan
18 March 1932, Shillington, Pennsylvania, USA
6 December 1967, Syosset, New York, USA
20 May 1945, Jacksonville, Florida, USA
10 July 1926, New York City, New York, USA
21 November 1944, Chicago, Illinois, USA
24 January 1949, Chicago, Illinois, USA
15 August 1951, New York City, New York, USA
31 October 1950, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
9 October 1940, Liverpool, Lancashire, England, UK
21 September 1950, Wilmette, Illinois, USA
27 October 1946, Komárno, Czechoslovakia [now Slovak Republic]
20 September 1931, Los Angeles, California, USA
7 January 1951, Wheaton, Illinois, USA
4 August 1944, Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA
April 25, 2016
Director Douglas Tirola makes the anarchic but nonetheless productive rise of what would become a multimedia franchise great fun.
October 08, 2015
If you think there is nothing funnier than putting a sacred cow in a blender and hitting the purée button, this is the movie for you.
October 07, 2015
A frenetic, rough-edged, unapologetic tribute to the Lampoon, featuring some amazing archival footage, nifty bits of animation and dozens of straightforward talking-head interviews that crackle and pop.
April 22, 2016
With this sensitive yet playful voice, Tirola shows how decades of richly comedic material found its cultural maturity.
July 14, 2016
This is a celebration, not an examination, and those looking for a critique of the ribald publication, radio show, off-Broadway play, and film franchise [should go] elsewhere.
October 08, 2015
What makes Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead feel particularly vibrant is how the Lampoon's specific art direction is put to use.
October 08, 2015
The movie is an orgy of boomer self-congratulation -- yet it lacks even that movie's ironic notation of how a bastion of white-male privilege managed to pass itself off as radical.
May 23, 2016
Drunk Stoned Brilliant did convince me that the Lampoon has a colorful, even important, journalistic history, and that some extraordinary talents were involved, however often they were drugged out.
January 21, 2016
The film understandably assumes that everyone who had anything to do with National Lampoon was a comic genius, but that's simply not the case.
October 08, 2015
We can only imagine with glee what these comic geniuses could have done with some of today's political and cultural figures.
April 20, 2016
A fluke phenomenon like this couldn't happen now, but we should be grateful it ever happened at all.
October 08, 2015
Tirola's documentary is brisk and entertaining, if not especially thoughtful. But then neither was the magazine, whose militant bad taste spawned "Saturday Night Live" and so much more.
