IndieFest: F*CK

Before we get started, Pat Boone, on the "keep it clean for the kids" side of the debate, suggests that in the future, instead of dropping the f bomb, you use the word BOONE instead. To adhere to our site guidelines, that's what we'll do for the rest of the review!

You can BOONE about a lot of things. It's not just, "they BOONED last night," but also "don't BOONE with me, you dirty motherBOONER," "BOONIN'-A," "fan-BOONING-tastic," "and, dude, you are so BOONED," among many, many others. BOONE encompasses porn stars, edgy comedians, not so edgy comedians, public decency debates, 60s protestors, lawyers and regulators, and Dick Cheney -- all of whom (and many more) make appearances in the film.

The documentary is divided into easily-digestible segments: BOONE history; BOONE Hollywood, BOONE in grammar, and little segments on "BREAKING BOONING NEWS," featuring newsclips about times when BOONE has come up in public -- like when someone on the Apollo moon mission accidentally cursed over a live microphone. The segments all start off with little Bill Plympton cartoons, which were rad too. Kevin Smith talks about Clerks, Miss Manners suggests how to control your kids from cursing, furious members of Morality In Media rant about the degeneration of society, two Europeans have sex on screen (for the environment), Ice-T takes on the police, Janeane Garofalo feels conflicted. There's clips of George Carlin, Howard Stern, Richard Nixon, the first poem in which the word BOONE was used, and segments from Scarface. And the word BOONE is used over 600 times in the movie.

BOONE is kind of like the Aristocrats without the joke (and Drew Carey does the same little snap and smile thing here he did there!); lots of people trying to unpack the idea of obscenity. There was a lot of shocked gasping and uncomfortably-loud laughing in the audience at various points, and it's really very interesting how many cultural flashpoints can be encompassed by the word. As one critic says, "BOONE is like Belgium. People get in so many fights there, because they're on the way to somewhere else. It's not really about BOONE or Belgium at all."

We will say, though, after we left the movie, we have absolutely no urge to use any curse words at al, ever againl. If someone steps on our toe today, we're going to say, "gee whillikers" instead.