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Dirty Sanchez (2006) DVD Review
Dirty Sanchez (2006) DVD Credits:
Dirty Sanchez (2006) Directed by:
Jim Hickey
Dirty Sanchez (2006) Written by:
Not available at this time
Dirty Sanchez (2006) Cast:
Lee Dainton, Dan Joyce, Michael Pancho Locke, Mike Locke, Myke Hawke Pierce, Matthew Pritchard, Elizabeth Tan
Dirty Sanchez (2006) Released by:
MTV Films Europe
Region:
1
Dirty Sanchez (2006) DVD Release Date:
10th September 2007
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Dirty Sanchez (2006) Synopsis:

The Devils have rounded up the Sanchez boys to set them the ultimate challenge - to travel the world in search of the Seven Deadly Sins. The fearsome foursome are ordered to embark on a world tour, hitting England, Wales, Russia, Thailand, Japan, Mexico and the Dominican Republic, where they will surrender themselves to the evils of sloth, anger, lust, envy, pride, gluttony and avarice. Follow these heroes of depravity as they engage in a wide array of extreme stunts resulting in gruesomely outrageous comedy.

Dirty Sanchez (2006) DVD Review:

It is rather difficult to take a film under the label of Dimension Extreme Home Entertainment all that seriously after seeing the extremely tame video game film just released under this promising banner. Unfortunately Dead or Alive was so tame in the action that there is no way it deserved to be called extreme anything, but with the release of the Dirty Sanchez movie a barf bag is included, alluding to a more accurate depiction of extreme entertainment. The only question left to be asked is whether or not Dirty Sanchez has gone to the other extreme of the totem pole, creating a film so extreme that it is nearly unbearable to watch at points and even including a barf bag in the DVD as a gag precaution.

Comparisons to MTV’s Jackass are inevitable, especially considering how much Dirty Sanchez feels to be nipping at the hit American show’s heels, even aired on MTV Europe. Both are absurd shows on MTV channels, in their respective countries, and now each show has been given the opportunity for a celluloid promotion, and Dirty Sanchez chooses a staged opening sequence which is slightly more shocking than Jackass, but essentially follows the same patterns otherwise. Do it the same but with more intensity and less safety seems to be the motto of the four men and director Jim Hickey. The opening sequence is staged to look as though they all have died in one of their ridiculously dangerous stunts and as a result the devil has decided to send them back in order to commit the seven deadly sins as much as they can.

This staged scene leads them the boys to attempt as much havoc as they can in different areas of the world, beginning with the sin of with Sloth as Lee Dainton, Dan Joyce, Mike Locke and Mathew Pritchard somehow try and relate laziness to super-gluing nostrils of a sleeping friend in what appears to be a hospital bed. Other challenges include sitting in a Lazy Boy chair while being pelted with a pellet gun, then used on the loser’s genitals, and a dangerous game involving drinking and darts. After that it is off to Russia for the boys as they set out to cover anger, and nobody is able to get you angry like your friends. Although they go to Russia for a Guinness World Record paintball challenge among other things, the real test of wrath comes when one of the boys gets a tattoo in Russian and his friends convince the artist to fudge the translation a bit and he finds out that the Guinness part was faked.

After Russia the boys head to Thailand, an obvious choice for dealing with lust the Dirty Sanchez way. They manage to handle sexual desire in the same way they handle many of these tasks, with pain. This time it is liposuction and more tattoos, far more disgusting than I believe they even imagined it would be. The other challenge is trying to decipher which of the strippers are cross-dressing men and which are really women. There aren’t many women in the film, although there is certainly plenty of footage of several different naked men throughout the Dirty Sanchez film. After that they head to the beaches for envy. A competition determines whether they stay in the best resort or a terrible place far from the beach.

Next they head to Japan for pride, which they are forced to relinquish when pitted against extreme Japanese fighters who use glass and barb wire in their fights. There are many other opportunities taken while in Japan but the stereotypes of culture are switched quickly after that to Mexico, when gluttony is the next sin to tackle. In order to tackle gluttony they spend two days in the desert trying to live off of the land with no luxuries. Greed takes them to the Dominican Republic for more of the same debauchery. If this isn’t enough there are plenty of deleted stunts in the special features, including tons of footage of the Tokyo Boys routine in Japan. There is also a commentary track with director Jim Hickey and two of the stars.

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Dirty Sanchez (2006) DVD review written by: Ryan Izay

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