Rotten
Pic lacks the development needed for a full-length feature and, following a hilarious opening sequence, it becomes tiresomely one-note.
Scott Foundas, Variety
Teddy Bears' Picnic
For fifty-one weeks a year, they run the country. For one week, they run amok.
2001 · 1h 20m · R
Comedy
Directed by
Harry Shearer
Overview
In Harry Shearer's tongue-in-cheek comedy, a waiter at Zanbesu Glen (a chi-chi Northern California resort) uses his movie camera to spy on the annual communal vacation of a group of rich, white U.S. government and business leaders who drink and carouse to excess while plotting their next move on the global stage. His goal? To sell the embarrassing and incriminating footage to the media and expose the "leaders" for what they really are.
Director and cast
- Harry Shearer Director
- Harry Shearer as Joey Lavin
- Michael McKean as Porterfield 'Porty' Pendleton
- Alan Thicke as Himself
- Peter Marshall as Himself
- George Wendt as General Edison 'Pete' Gerberding
- Fred Willard as Senator Roger Dickey
- Dick Butkus as Dick Butkus
- Burt Bulos as Billy the Driver
- Bob Einstein Cast
- Morgan Fairchild Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
Rotten
Most of the film feels conceived and shot on the fly -- like between lunch breaks for Shearer's radio show and his Simpson voice-overs.
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe
Rotten
The satire is unfocused, while the story goes nowhere.
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
Rotten
It is supremely unfunny and unentertaining to watch middle-age and older men drink to excess, piss on trees, b.s. one another and put on a show in drag.
Kirk Honeycutt, Hollywood Reporter
Rotten
A beyond-lame satire, Teddy Bears' Picnic ranks among the most pitiful directing debuts by an esteemed writer-actor.
Lou Lumenick, New York Post
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