Choke Joke

"A lot of people would say it’s a bad idea, on your first day out of prison, to go right back to stalking the tranny hooker that knocked out five of your teeth. But that's how I roll." That's a line from Choke said by, yes it's true, Joel Grey. It's one of the funniest lines in the film and made me wish Grey had more scenes.

There are plenty of other zingers though to keep the action rolling along. Sam Rockwell is always very entertaining and Choke allows him to easily flow through a lot of funny scenarios (including a wacky doozy of a scene with the widely underused, hilarious Heather Burns). I also always love Kelly MacDonald although I again wished she had a little more to do in the film. I can say there are some very funny sequences involving a colonial village (featuring the funny director of the film, Clark Gregg) and a running joke about rocks (I like picking up rocks myself). The movie also features a fine turn from, as always, Angelica Houston as Rockwell's demented mother with a shady past.

All in all, I wouldn't say that this movie achieves what were perhaps it's outside the mainstream aspirations but it has enough laughs to make the time fly by.