This was a weird movie.

We follow a family of sasquatches. Going in, I thought these sasquatches would be an anthropomorphic creature that would talk English like humans. Nope. Nothing but grunts, calls and tree knocks. The four actors had to relate thoughts without words, via actions, facial expressions and body language.

The four actors playing the family of sasquatches were Riley Keough, Jesse Eisenberg, Christophe Zajac-Denek, and Nathan Zellner.

This is a gross movie in many instances, including scenes of vomiting, throwing poop, peeing and dangling Sasquatch penises (which kind of ruin the myth of comparison to big feet).

There are also some very powerful moments of loss and tragedy as the family tried to make its way through a years time.

I am very mixed about this, because much of the humor of the film are the type of humor that I do not like. The scene where the father squatch threw up after eating some special mushroom was extremely gross, with green vomit dangling in his beard. Still, there were some moving moments as the sasquatches tried to navigate the struggles of the wilderness. There is a cougar in the film that is just massive.

I do appreciate the swing that directors David and Nathan Zellner took with this movie, but it just did not fully hit with me. It took quite a risk to not have any dialogue in the entire flick. That definitely took some adjusting to, but after awhile, it did not bother me.

There is an artistry here, so I do not want to fully dismiss what the Zellners tried to do. The fact is this movie just did not work for me. There are positives here for sure and it took some sasquatch sized balls to make it, but ninety minutes felt too long. Sasquatch fans might really enjoy this and there is definitely comments about relationships and our world here, but there was just too much other things that I couldn’t get past.

2.8 stars