My face hurts from smiling too much, and I am also very horny.

Fish and Chicks lies somewhere in between Clerks and Your Friends & Neighbors, showing more than enough promise to put DeLeo’s name on the map. It’s incredibly raunchy and vulgar, but with far more maturity than Kevin Smith has ever been able to muster. I laughed harder, louder, and more often during this deranged video short than I have throughout the entire "New Jersey Trilogy" combined.

Arnold (Mark Tyler) and George (Mike Dufays) are old chums spinning yarns about their sexual exploits while fishing from a small boat with a case of beer. Their conversation runs the entire gamut: pick up lines, dating philosophies, friends who might be gay, threesomes, blowjobs, broken hearts, jealousy, heterosexual politics in general. The entire fishing/dating-analogy works well without calling too much attention to itself, and flashback scenes are both sexy and laugh out loud funny.

Fish and Chips is, above all, a memorably honest meditation on the war of the sexes, with a sense of humor filthy enough to rival Richard Pryor and George Carlin. It’s got hot chicks, a killer script, competent acting (especially from Dufays), and a genuinely sick finale. See it.
(de_leo_productions@sympatico.ca)