SPOON | Omeleto Comedy

A man hosts a dinner party.
SPOON is used with permission from Matthew Raetzel and Josh Taube. Learn more at comedywitherro....
Dennis and Laurie are having a dinner party, and all seems to be going well. Their friends are laughing and enjoying themselves, the food has been good and it's time for a dessert of ice cream. But it's served with plastic spoons, which keep breaking and incurring the mockery (and injuries) of some of the guests. Dennis feels humiliated, so he decides to do something about the shoddy spoons -- a journey that will take him to unexpectedly dark places.
Directed and written by Matthew Raetzel and Josh Taube, this short dark comedy begins innocuously enough, opening with a scene of an uproarious dinner party. It seems convivial, with everyone laughing and sharing food. But things go awry when the plastic dessert spoons break, hurting some guests and keeping them from enjoying their food. Dennis, the host, is humiliated. And when a guest jokes that "whoever made these spoons deserves to be shot," Dennis takes that phrase to its most logical extreme.
Plagued with a gnawing sense of shame and leaving behind the film's more comedic beginning, Dennis decides to seek retribution by going after the plastic spoon designer, hunting down information on the dark web and planning an operation of vengeance with military detail. The film goes into sleek action-thriller mode, with its dark, chilly cinematography and dynamic camerawork. It's both impressively done and very droll, sending up the self-seriousness and jacked-up stakes of the action film by applying it to such a petty goal.
Actor Chris Newman as Dennis deftly conveys the single-mindedness and drive of the typical action hero, with just a touch of exaggeration to hint at the film's wider intentions. Propelled by a growing rage, the film builds up a genuine momentum of suspense as Dennis tracks down the haplessly nerdy tableware designer of the ill-made plastic spoons, played by actor Holland MacFallister in a memorably dweebish performance. The confrontation is done so well that we genuinely wonder how far Dennis will go in his quest for revenge, and how far dark the comedy will go for the film.
Sometimes an overly sinister ending to a comedy like this can leave viewers feeling unsettled or uneasy, landing more in the dark column than the comedy one, but SPOON adroitly sidesteps this by staying true to its main character's drive as a consumer malcontent. Who can't relate to an interaction or moment that was ruined by a cheaply made or poorly performing object? There's an inner Dennis in all of us, perhaps, reaching our breaking point and rising against everything in the world that's supposed to make our lives function better -- but only enrages us more by filling the world with mediocrity and crap.

[@Shoqeens]

“Do you know who I am?” “Mom?” Had me💀😂

[@hallertau]

" David, look out" lolz

[@ana10g]

music was on point!

[@adinemation2287]

The worst part is I was watching while having lunch😅

[@Shoqeens]

Same dude👀🫠

[@gaargy1]

Creative! Original! I don't understand why omeleto comedy is getting so few views

[@mariomulder3153]

Somebody paid for this!!!

[@seattlered3018]

Excellent 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@adinemation2287]

And best is this video

[@adinemation2287]

Thought I didn't understand the end , what happened to them

[@kathyflorcruz552]

Both laughed at the rhetoric of "they deserve to be shot" but once taken literally it couldn't be done because both products (the spoons he wanted revenge over with a gun & the gun ) were useless. Maybe a message of products in wrong hands I guess? Or a shot a corporate greed regardless of customer experience. I guess. 😅

[@tradinghours263]

😂 damn

[@joanneweiss3864]

Well that was a pointless 14 min i cant get back.

[@thinkfloyd2594]

the dialog is oh, so, so trite, and so bad. Quentin Tarantino says every line of dialog should have meaning. This is the antithesis of that.

[@AndyBends]

COMEDY???? sick and disgusting