Bad Milo!

Bad Milo!

“I have a monster up my ass: farthest thing from a metaphor!”

That line is one of the best summaries of what “Bad Milo!” is about: a man with a monster in his rear. I can assure you that this scatological horror comedy is funny whether it excites or repulses you, and not just here and there. It occupies a spectrum of bad taste that stretches from “Basket Case” to “Family Guy,” giving great character actors Peter Stormare, Stephen Root, Patrick Warburton room to work. And its creators usually know when to let their inherent insanity do the talking.

Ken Marino, star of “Childrens Hospital,” plays Ken, an accountant with a lousy job who has a needy girlfriend and an indelicate inhabitant in his nether region. Ken’s boss (Warburton) gives him the thankless task of firing his colleagues. And Ken’s girlfriend Sarah (Gillian Jacobs) wants him to give her children. Finally, at 90-minutes-per-deposit, Ken’s intestines want him dead; he also suffers from volcanic diarrhea.

Luckily for our beleaguered hero, his psychiatrist (Stormare) gets him to the bottom of things: The source of all Ken’s woes is an entity dwelling in his rectum. This creature whom Ken names Milo looks like E.T.’s love child with the baby from “Dinosaurs” and the monster in “Satan’s Little Helper.” Milo turns out to be Ken’s subconscious personified. It wants to kill everyone who has ever hurt Ken. But because Milo is part of Ken, he cannot kill Milo without hurting himself. So at his doctor’s recommendation, Ken spends time with Milo hoping the killing will stop.

On paper “Bad Milo!” sounds like loosey-goosey-crazy-go-nuts. In practice it is understated relative to its bonkers premise. A surprising number of icky jokes play with midnight movie assurance; for instance when Ken’s doctor warns him that he should just bend over and accept his fate Stormare hisses in line reading worthy of whatever awards voters will have him for Big fat babies come out tiny vaginas.

Characterizations are surprisingly not terrible in this film either; Sarah isn’t a shrew and even root’s pathetic deadbeat dad feels relatable enough thanks in no small part to winning cast or Jacob Vaughan Benjamin Hayes script I mean nobody stabbing you don’t see however says hopefully.

“Bad Milo!” rarely goes so far overboard that it loses you completely To put mildly not subtle But if watch expecting dumb idea executed appreciably skillfully blast.

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