Men with Brooms (film): Difference between revisions

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Describe ''Men With Brooms'' he-[[Tap On the Head|*smacked in the head with a curling stone*]]

Describe ''Men With Brooms'' he-[[Tap on the Head|*smacked in the head with a curling stone*]]

[[Romantic Comedy]] movie starring Paul Gross and Leslie Nielsen, and seemingly half of the cast of ''[[Due South]]''. Chris Cutter, once a local Curling legend until he left town without explanation (not to mention leaving his fiancee at the altar), comes back home for his curling coach's funeral. His curling coach's main wish, according to his will, is for Cutter to bring the old team back together to try and win the Golden Broom, the Curling equivilant to the Stanley Cup, as well as for him to reconcile with his estranged (not to mention [[Cloudcuckoolander|strange]]) dad, famed curling coach Gordon Cutter, played by Leslie Nielsen. [[Hilarity Ensues]].

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{{quote| '''Lennox''':''Hey man, even if I wanted to, I've got principles. She has to be conscious, to begin with...''}}

* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Gordon Cutter, Strombeck to a lesser degree.

* [[Curse Cut Short]]: "Let me tell you about vibrators--" *[[Tap On the Head|WHANG]]*

* [[Curse Cut Short]]: "Let me tell you about vibrators--" *[[Tap on the Head|WHANG]]*

* [[Cryptic Conversation]]: Neil's wife appears to be a fan of this. [[Lampshaded]] [[Deadpan Snarker|very flatly]] by Neil every time it happens.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Neil, [[There Is No Such Thing As Notability|notably]], only when talking to his wife.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Neil, [[There Is No Such Thing as Notability|notably]], only when talking to his wife.

* [[The Ditz]]: Lennox's "rent-a-girlfriend", and a male example in the form of Strombeck.

* [[The Dutiful Son|The Dutiful Daughter]]: Amy helped her father recover the Magellan Stones while her sister Julie went to school and eventually became an astronaut.

* [[Eagle Land]]: Alexander ''[[Red Baron|The Juggernaut]]'' Yount, whose team wears shiny jumpsuits, enters the stadium to rock music and pyrotechnics, and has ''cheerleaders''. Though he's ''very'' competitive and takes himself ''way'' too seriously, he's actually not a particularly negative portrayal of Americans.

* [[Everything's Louder ~~With~~ Bagpipes]]: The movie opens with a bagpipe tune that ends up being a funeral dirge.

* [[Everything's Louder with Bagpipes]]: The movie opens with a bagpipe tune that ends up being a funeral dirge.

* [[Expy]]: The American Space Agency, filling in for NASA.

* [[Fake American]]: Greg Bryk as Alexander ''The Juggernaut'' Yount is from Winnipeg.

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* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: If you've ever been a fan of ''[[Due South]]'', you'll recognize probably half of the cast of this film, not to mention the late Leslie Nielsen.

** George Buza, playing the loan shark, has made a career of such roles in Canadian film and television.

* [[Hooker ~~With~~ a Heart of Gold]]: Joanne, the "[[Insistent Terminology|Rent-A-Girlfriend]]", though Lennox never seems to actually do the things that one traditionally does with a prostitute, though she could just be the type of escort where sex isn't part of the deal.

* [[Hooker with a Heart of Gold]]: Joanne, the "[[Insistent Terminology|Rent-A-Girlfriend]]", though Lennox never seems to actually do the things that one traditionally does with a prostitute, though she could just be the type of escort where sex isn't part of the deal.

* [[Hot Mom]]: Amy

* [[Karma Houdini]]: Linda Bucyk, who spends much of the movie cheating on her husband. Though it is strongly indicated at the end of the film that he's leaving her, it has less to do with the affair and more to do with her general abusiveness (and his own developing relationship with [[The Ditz|Joanne]])

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** Given her kid's [[Wise Beyond Their Years|nonchalant and blunt reaction]] to his mom's condition, it's implied that this happens to her fairly often. But then, he could also have been familiar with her being drunk from before she started going to AA meetings.

* [[Regional Riff]]: Scottish bagpipes for Canada. Appropriate, since the movie centers around a sport that originated in Scotland.

* [[Running Gag]]: Lennox's loan shark and his [[Tap On the Head|constant run-ins]] with the last of the Magellan Stones.

* [[Running Gag]]: Lennox's loan shark and his [[Tap on the Head|constant run-ins]] with the last of the Magellan Stones.

** Beavers.

** Lennox ''never'' getting his "rent a girlfriend"'s name right.

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* [[The Stoner]]: Gordon Cutter

* [[The Tape Knew You Would Say That]]: Foley's posthumous message to his team.

* [[Tap On the Head]]: Lennox's loan shark. [[Running Gag|Several times throughout the movie]], in fact. ''With a curling stone.'' Don't worry though, he never seems to suffer from it, because he's [[Made of Iron]]. And because it's ''[[Rule of Funny|funny]]''.

* [[Tap on the Head]]: Lennox's loan shark. [[Running Gag|Several times throughout the movie]], in fact. ''With a curling stone.'' Don't worry though, he never seems to suffer from it, because he's [[Made of Iron]]. And because it's ''[[Rule of Funny|funny]]''.

** Although, he is sporting one hell of a gash at the end on the movie...

* [[Thanatos Gambit]]: Pretty much the entire plot of the film is the result of Donald Foley guilt-tripping his old curling team into reuniting after he dies.

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* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]]: When his wife asks him, for the second or third time, to pass her the beets during dinner, Neil slides it to her like a curling stone, bouncing it off several other dishes on the way, much to the amusement of his kids [["Stop Having Fun!" Guys|and less so to his wife]].

* [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic]]: The herd (flock? pack?) of Beavers that block the road after the guys listen to their coach's recorded message in the car.

* [[What You Are in ~~The~~ Dark]]: Years before, Chris Cutter accidentally "burned" a stone, touching it with his foot after releasing it, during a qualifying match to get his team into the finals for the Golden Broom. Instead of reporting it to the ref like he should have, he kept quiet. Unwilling to admit to what he had done (disgracing the team) or playing through the finals that he didn't deserve to be in, he dumped the stones in the lake and skipped town, incidentally leaving his fiancée, Julie, as well as his team, nobody knowing just what had possessed him to do that.

* [[What You Are in the Dark]]: Years before, Chris Cutter accidentally "burned" a stone, touching it with his foot after releasing it, during a qualifying match to get his team into the finals for the Golden Broom. Instead of reporting it to the ref like he should have, he kept quiet. Unwilling to admit to what he had done (disgracing the team) or playing through the finals that he didn't deserve to be in, he dumped the stones in the lake and skipped town, incidentally leaving his fiancée, Julie, as well as his team, nobody knowing just what had possessed him to do that.

* [[Word Salad Philosophy]]: When the team is drunkenly rambling along about Mozart and Einstein, while Amy, [[Only Sane Man|the one sober person present]], just quietly sits back listening with an amused look on her face.

* [[Worthy Adversary]]: Chris makes an amazing, almost impossible shot which would put his team in position to win, but his teammate accidentally brushed the stone with his foot after releasing it, meaning the entire shot is invalid... [[What You Are in ~~The~~ Dark|as long as he reports it]]. He does, and [[Eagle Land|Yount]] tells the referee to set the stones up the way they were before and let Chris try again.

* [[Worthy Adversary]]: Chris makes an amazing, almost impossible shot which would put his team in position to win, but his teammate accidentally brushed the stone with his foot after releasing it, meaning the entire shot is invalid... [[What You Are in the Dark|as long as he reports it]]. He does, and [[Eagle Land|Yount]] tells the referee to set the stones up the way they were before and let Chris try again.

* [[You Fail Law Forever]]: [[Lampshaded]] and [[Averted]] at the reading of Donald Foley's will. The lawyer admits that there really ''isn't'' any way his requests regarding the team and the stone could be considered legally binding; everybody goes along with it out of consideration for the deceased.

* [[Your Cheating Heart]]: [[Averted]]. Nothing seems to happen as a result Neil's developing relationship with Joanne, though that could have something to do with the fact that his wife is secretly having an affair with his assistant.