SnoopyStyle
Colleen Collette (Lily-Rose Depp) and Colleen McKenzie (Harley Quinn Smith) are the store clerks from Kevin Smith's previous indie Tusk. The Colleens are best friends for most of their 15 and a half years. The sophomores are excited being invited to a 12th grade party until they face miniature Nazi bratwurst soldiers.This has a few fun moments mostly by the clueless phone-obsessed girlie chemistry of the Colleens. The "About" can get repetitive. Kevin Smith is making the broadest of Canadian references like naming the high school Terry Fox. Oddly, he tackles a real name from Canadian Nazi past. Like Red State, he doing political satire in very broad strokes which doesn't really work. He goes down some strange paths which is not to everybody's tastes. If anything, the girls work best doing more realistic stuff like getting their phones taken away. The Colleens are wacky enough that they could exist in a more normal story. It's just that Kevin Smith is on weird trip and not everybody will enjoy the ride.
Java_Joe
Kevin Smith was good filmmaker. He made Clerks on a shoestring budget. He made the wickedly funny Dogma. And he made the surreal Tusk. But somewhere along the lines he seems to have forgotten certain things. While Sophia Coppola wrote a love letter to Japan in "Lost in Translation", Kevin Smith seems to have scrawled something on a bar napkin for Canada in "Yoga Hosers". It's frankly a wonder why specifically this movie was made.The story itself, is unremarkable. Two girls, played by the daughters of Johnny Depp and Kevin Smith play the two Colleens who wind up in the middle of some really strange stuff dealing with Nazi sausages. Yes that's right, Bratzis. The girls are cute but they're not great actresses. You really need more if you plan on building a career for these two. But that's not the problem. The problem is why specifically is this set in Canada? Put it in the United States and the story would barely change. The only difference is there wouldn't be all those lame Canadian "jokes" that people say when trying to be clever.Yes. We get it. Canadians have an accent. They say "sorry" differently. They say "zed" instead of "zee". And nobody, especially in Manitoba, says "aboot". Maybe that's an East coast thing but I've spent time in Canada and never heard anybody say it that yes. Sure, it's different than how we say it in the United States but it's not "aboot".But literally that's the joke. Canadians talk funny. Ha ha ha. Get it? If not it's okay, it'll only be hammered home with all the subtlety of a sledgehammer. If you make the mistake of trying to take a shot every time somebody says "sorry" or "aboot" you'll be passed out in the first 10 minutes.I'll admit it had some decent moments but overall, it was just terrible. I'm really not looking forward to "Moose Jaws" because I honestly think it's just going to be more of the same.
sol-
More of a 'Tusk' spin-off than a sequel, this second Canada-set horror film from Kevin Smith focuses on the two convenience store clerks from 'Tusk' who find themselves up against teen Satanists and tiny creatures that kill by climbing through human bodies. As a narrative, 'Yoya Hosers' keeps jumping in different directions with certain subplots (the Satanists in particular) deserving of much more screen time, however, Smith knows how to make a zany comedy and the film only gets more interesting as the mythology surrounding the tiny creatures becomes more bizarre and complex. There is also an undeniable wackiness to their chants of "Wunderbar!" when exiting their victims and Smith films the clerk girls defeating the critters with lots of energy. The pseudoscience behind the creation of the creatures is incredibly silly though and if the film's low IMDb rating is anything to go by, this is not a film for all tastes. The humour certainly varies in effectiveness; same goes for the attempts to mock the limited cultural awareness of teenagers today and the difficulty of separating teenagers from their phones. The lead actresses are radiant enough though to keep everything chugging along. Some have complained about their casting being nepotistic, but Lily-Rose Depp certainly outclasses her father (Johnny) at least, who is even more over-the-top than he was in 'Tusk'.
Michael Ledo
Collen C. (Lily-Rose Depp) and Collen M. (Harley Quinn Smith) are sophomores who work at the Canadian "Eh-2-Zed" convenience store where they practice their band in the back room. They take yoga at the strip mall from Yogi Bayer. One night Puppetmaster style Nazi bratwurst invade the store....The film is comedy and not horror. It makes fun of everything Canadian, more so than "Canadian Bacon." I originally believed this was made by Canadians making fun of themselves until I saw this was shot in California. Too late. I already laughed. The film also makes sport of our over crazed smart phone teens who love celebrity and everything outside of the real world...also the target audience-whoops. The humor was quirky. I loved "Pucky Charms" cereal as well as the girls inability to sing and their gems like, "Nothing is as bad as Canadian Idol." Stupid, smart, and fun. This is not for everyone.Guide: No swearing, sex or nudity. Sexual references. You must do a shot every time someone says "aboot" and feel free to stop 10 minutes into the film.