THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION OF LITTLE DIZZLE (USA 2010) **
Directed by David Russo

What the f***?  The protagonist in the movie reads a message in a bottle that says f*** you!  A cookie company leaves behind sample cookies in the garbage for janitors to sample.  Eating the cookies causes males to give birth to fluorescent blue fish.  The fish cannot breathe.  Does all this make sense in David Russo’s original first feature?

Sadly, the answer is no!  The first 10 minutes of Russo’s film when Dory (Marshall Allman) in dress clothes reaches out for a bottle with a message floating in the water.  It is a suspenseful moment as the audience worries if Dory is going to fall in and get wet.  He does and the message in the bottle reads f*** you.  Writer/director David Russo’s film follows pretty much this format.  He occasionally surprises his audience but little else makes purpose.

The protagonist in the film is Dory who loses his high paying job after freaking out at a co-worker for using a cell phone.  Again the question that comes across is why.  He ends up in a janitorial job where he is shown the ropes by high strung O.C. (Vince Vieluf).  The other employees Ethel (Tanya Raymonde) and Methyl (Tygh Runyan) are not all there either.  The plot involves a company that leases the building that deliberately leaves cookies behind so that the janitors can test and eat them.  The males get impregnated and deliver blue things out through their a** holes.  Dory and his buddies come to realise certain truths, though Russo never makes clear exactly what they are.

Russo’s film contains lots of cheesy special effects that meet the cheesiness of the film.  But Russo’s film is neither overtly hilarious nor dramatic.  The message, if there is one, is unclear and the audience is never sure whether this film is a farce, absurdity or romantic comedy.  The odd and unsatisfactory ending does not help either.  What thing that is clear is that there is hardly any point in all these happenings.  And the audience cannot care less either!