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Originally Posted by Kipper is King
Men with Brooms was promoted as Calgary hosted the Brier one year. I thought a comedy movie about curling would be funny. It scraped the bottom of the barrel for humour. I left early, as did others in the theater.
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I hated Men with Brooms not because it was unfunny and poorly acted (it was both those things), but because it took a very interesting sport and reduced it down to one esoteric rule that literally almost never occurs in real curling - what happens when a rock breaks - and then has that happen twice in the movie, as far as I remember it. If I remember correctly, it also featured other rarities like burned stones and highly implausible scores. Meanwhile, absolutely no attention to the rules that actually make curling interesting, such as the hammer. It was just shocking to me that a Canadian movie about curling would do such a poor job portraying the sport.