5/5 Can I s**t on a tortilla and call it a taco?
  by Zachary W. Locklin
Illegal Use of Joe Zopp is one of the most enjoyable films I've watched in the last year. Combining the best humor of the Coen Brothers with the best twisted plots of, well, the Coen Brothers--without, somehow, limiting itself to a Coen Brothers imitation--Joe Zopp manages to be clearly inspired by great works and, at the same time, completely original.

Joe Zopp is a brilliant young man who, tired of his treatment at the hands of the small town he grew up in, runs away and becomes a street performer in Ohio. Eight years pass, and one day he runs into an old acquaintance who tells him that everyone in his old town thinks that he has been killed in a freak train accident. Naturally, Zopp returns to his town incognito (using the pseudonym Gary Pseudonym) to discover who has orchestrated his fake death and prove his aliveness.

Where the plot goes from there is something else entirely: bizarre all-women suburban neighborhood committees (the P.O.W.s), a cranky hotel manager, garden-gnome theft, infidelity, giant dildos, dingoes, even bigger dildos, competing twin brother mortuary owners (only one of whom, against all odds, is French), and a slew of profoundly foul language, amongst other things, come together to make the world of Joe Zopp unpredictable and hilarious.

The acting is perfect; the timing is perfect; the direction is perfect; the writing is well above par for perfect. Nick Holle as Joe Zopp is perfectly befuddled and isolated, and the supporting cast is all perfect in their respective roles.

I really can't say enough good about this film. It is well worth the watch. By far. A necessary addition to the DVD collection of anybody who enjoys a great comedy. Or wants to know the secret to any good disguise (spoiler alert: it's the MUSTACHE!).