Director Casper Kelly made his name with the 2014 viral horror short for Adult Swim, Too Many Cooks. The film is basically an 11-minute TV theme tune that layers needling repetition, perky vocals and inane lyrics with increasingly surreal elements to skewer vintage network staples — from chipper family sitcoms through cop shows, primetime soaps, cartoons, superhero action and cheesy sci-fi, until a slasher villain with a machete hijacks the proceedings just in time for the episode to begin. It’s a neat conceit, a postmodern, genre-crashing parody that takes a wrecking ball to our nostalgia for television entertainment of the ‘70s, ‘80s and ‘90s, without overstaying its welcome.
That’s one of the key weaknesses of Kelly’s sporadically amusing Buddy, a variation on a theme that stretches its sketch-comedy idea to feature length by upping the gore and the demented detours but doesn’t go far enough to be as…
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