Certificate: 15
Running Time: 84 mins
Director: Brian Spitz
Starring: Patrick
Moorte, Axel Braun, Jonah Falcon
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

The documentary came to fruition when Moorte proposed to his girlfriend
at a sports event only for her to turn him down in front of…well…the
world. As part of the post mortem it was
revealed that the size of his pecker was a deal breaker for the young lady and
one that hit Moorte (understandably) hard…no pun intended.
Moorte’s documentary is one of the new generation of documentary film
makers, these film makers are not Errol Morris; their work is never going to
overturn a prison sentence or create a movement that changes the world; they’re
a breed that make the Me Movie. I can understand why, if your girlfriend
dumped you because of the size of your torque, you’d be a little hung up on it…again
no pun intended but to make an entire movie about it and the techniques used to
elongate it is just a little too self indulgent. What I can’t understand is why anyone would
want to alert the world to their tiny tackle.
It seems that the new world drive for fame of fortune outweighs
everything. Whether it’s I’ve never cleaned my house and now I live
in a five room toilet documentaries, or I’ve
had this growth on my balls and now it’s bigger than my leg shows it’s
amazing how incredibly open some people are to showcasing their issues in
exchange for their fifteen minutes.
There isn’t a lot to Unhung Hero. A basic understanding of physiology and
splash of common sense will tell you these techniques are nonsense designed for
insecure men and with Moorte shying away from some of the more radical
techniques it’s little more than a travel documentary with an emphasis on
wieners and more than a passing resemblance to Morgan Spurlock’s Where In The World is Osama Bin Laden and
equally as pointless. The one additional
dimension Spitz attempts to put into Unhung
Hero in the form of the sexy blonde potential girlfriend who works in an LA
sex shop and Adult Expo is clearly scripted, contrived and only goes to
emphasis how needy Moorte is and that the documentary would be a lot more
interesting if it was focusing on his real problem.
Unhung Hero is a paint by numbers travel-a-thon that when
measured up against other examples of the sub-genre comes up more than a little
short…pun intended.
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