Movie Review: Young Hollywood’s “Brad and Spencer”

This might be the worst thing we’ve seen so far this year.

In the canon of stupid shit that has ever been seen by mankind, I usually consider myself a fan. Franchises like MacGruber, Dumb & Dumber, and others are just a sampling of some of the stuff I usually look to when I don’t feel like taking my movies seriously. When it comes to animation, the practitioners seldom stay around for long, but they are still out there. Comedy Central’s Brickleberry and Adult Swim’s Aqua Teen Hunger Force are good examples of franchises that could get away with crazy shit and/or simplistic animation principles because the characters shined through and the joke writing was absolutely there.

Enter Brad and Spencer. An animated buddy comedy from Young Hollywood. At 23-minutes long, the advertising of this film as a “feature-length” is already unwarranted, however, once you start watching this horrid excuse for a premise, you’ll actually be thankful that this thing isn’t two to three times as long.

The animation for Brad and Spencer looks like it was produced by kids learning Adobe Flash for the first time, and the voice acting of our titular characters is shit, as is the rest of the cast. The premise, featuring two kids trying to do everything they can to be internet famous, has been done a 1000 times before and can most recently be seen in the far better animated/acted Nerdland that came out last year. Other than that, there is really nothing redeeming about Brad and Spencer.  The jokes and gags are poorly rewritten, rehashed internet tropes that insult the intelligence of anyone watching and sets back the practice of premium animation 10 years in its fallacy.

To put this succinctly, Brad and Spencer is a result of someone eating our shit, then shitting out our shit, and then eating the shit that’s made up of our shit that we made ’em eat. THAT’S Brad and Spencer. 

Save yourselves the $2 charge and pass on this.

Watch the trailer for Brad and Spencer here.