Wordiezett So much average

Executscan Expected more

Dotbankey A lot of fun.

Humaira Grant It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Jackson Booth-Millard I remember seeing the DVD for this film, the title pretty much tells you what to expect, starring and directed by the star I know best as Ash from The Evil Dead trilogy, I knew this was going to be terrible, but I had to see why. Basically in the mining town of Gold Lick, Oregon, young Jeff (Taylor Sharpe) is a big fan of B-movie star Bruce Campbell, he is out with his friend Clayton (Logan Martin) to meet Big Debbie (Ariel Badenhop) and Little Debbie (Ali Akay) in the nineteenth-century cemetery. Jeff unintentionally removes a medallion off the mausoleum, unleashing the Chinese god of the dead, Guan-Di (James Peck), it kills Clayton and the girls, while Jeff flees, he panics and knows that the town needs to be saved, and he can think of only one person to help, his movie hero. Bruce Campbell is filming his latest naff looking science-fiction , blood-filled B-movie, Cave Alien II, with his drinking habits and rude nature he is not popular amongst the film crew, but his agent Mills Toddner (Ted Raimi) has promised a birthday surprise. Next thing he knows Bruce is knocked unconscious and wakes up inside the trunk of Jeff's car, Bruce assumes he is a mad stalker-like fan, he arrives in the town of Gold Lick and listens to the townspeople talk about the trouble with the ancient ghoul, he assumes this is his birthday surprise, a new movie, and despite no scripts and cameras in sight he agrees to "help". While "preparing" himself Bruce is trying to get in the good books of Jeff's mother Kelly Graham (Grace Thorsen), who initially finds his behaviour irritating, and he gears himself up in the town gun shop. Bruce joins some townspeople brave enough to venture into the woods and take on Guan- Di, he assumes it is all still just a movie, he then finds out it is all real and flees the town, a running gag is an Italian painter (Ted Raimi) constantly repaints the population sign every time someone dies, including himself. Returning to his own movie set Bruce, everyone on the set hates him, including his own dog, and his ex-wife Cheryl (The Evil Dead's Ellen Sandweiss) has a restraining order placed upon him, but the real birthday surprise does show up, a singing prostitute named Kasey (Janelle Farber). Bruce gets a call from Jeff, he informs him he is going up against Guan-Di, so Bruce goes back to Gold Lick, he is treated with contempt and tries to reconcile with Kelly, but ultimately he is back to save the town. Bruce and Jeff set up dynamite at the mausoleum, they try to lure Guan-Di inside, eventually Bruce sacrifices himself and the dynamite is blown, and the medallion is returned into the wall of the mausoleum to ease the spirit. But Guan-Di ha survived and comes out to attack, at the very last minute however, it turns out that this whole scenario is a movie, Bruce argues with Ted he doesn't want clichés, he wants a happy ending, so it is changed to Bruce marrying Kelly, and Jeff accepted into Harvard University, Bruce is pleased with this new ending, but again, this is not real, and Guan- Di appears and attacks Bruce. Also starring Ben McCain as Mayor and Timothy Patrick Quill as Frank. The whole is geared by Campbell parodying his own persona and movie roles, there are many in-jokes and spoofs based on The Evil Dead and his many other movies, but the story of the actor going against an awakened Chinese demon is silly, it hardly made me laugh, and the quality of special effects was low, the whole thing is just an awful mess, even for fans of Campbell, I would not bother with this boring and ridiculous comedy horror. Poor!

ironhorse_iv Try to swallow this. Adapted from a comic book by Dark Horse Comics, this R rated film sees B-List Movie actor Bruce Campbell being mistaken for a real-like monster hunter and forced to fight a real Chinese monster, Guan-Di in a small town in Oregon. Directed by Bruce Campbell, the movie is freaky deaky. It's not that good of a movie, but it was fun enough to watch. You really have to turn off your brain to get through the movie. There are tons of extreme meta-humor parody, here and most of it kinda works. Some of the in-jokes are slightly clever while others are just too blunt and insult the audience's intelligence. The film was made, cheaply to capitalize on that low budget meta-humor. The exteriors for the town of "Goldlick" were actually shot on Bruce Campbell's property where a back lot was built with the exteriors of all of the buildings. The interior shots were all done on a sound stage. The monster demon looks pretty fake looking, with a lots of unrealistic-looking gore to add to the over the top violence. Still, the plot written by Mark Verheiden & Bruce Campbell, was pretty interesting. It's rare to see actors played highly fictionalized version of themselves. For the most part, Bruce Campbell as Bruce Campbell was very entertaining with all with wits. So, kinda hail to the king, baby! The only thing, I didn't like about his character is how much, he lacks depth and act so mean-spirited. The bad thing about the story is that characters are written, in unsophisticated unlikeable ways that it's hard to get through the film. Most of the characters in the film, are jerks. I really didn't like any of the supporting cast, due to this. Women are written, so shallow-like, that it's a bit degrading. I feel bad, for the women in this film like Grace Thorsen. The Chinese Stereotypes are so offensive, that it's hard to get through. Seeing director Sam Raimi's younger brother, Ted Raimi act Asian was pretty insulting. It's worse than his other role in the film, as a Italian painter. I have to say, Guan-Di was a pretty cool villain. After all, you don't see, many Chinese ghosts haunting an America location. The whole bean curd gimmick was pretty OK for the most part. One thing, I love about the dialogue is all the mentions and references to Bruce Campbell's other films, such as 2002's Bubba Hotep, 1988's Maniac Cop & others. That was pretty much, the highlight of the film. Although Sam Raimi, with whom Bruce frequently collaborates, is not involved with this production, much of the film is in the vein of the Evil Dead series (1982-1992). I just wish, they mention more of his TV show, works like being a recurring characters in both the Xena: Warrior Princess and Hercules: The Legendary Journeys series (1995-1999). Another good thing about the film is the song, 'The Legend of Guandi', by the McCain Brothers. It's a pretty catchy tune. The DVD extras are somewhat worth, buying the movie for. It was so funny to watch. The hour long Making-of documentary is one big inside joke with a lot of fake-history, awkward moments, and fake trailers for movies that will never, come out like Cave-alien 2. They even went so far, to make a behind the scenes documentary of the making of Cave-alien 2. It was so surreal. The DVD has also tons of Easter Eggs special features that you will have to check out. Lots of them, feature content that isn't worth watching, but it was still fun to find them. Supposedly, there's a sequel, as of this writing, on its way. It is in-titled, 'My Name is Still Bruce: Bruce vs. Frankenstein'. It might be OK, might not. So heads up on that. Overall: if you're a Bruce Campbell fan, you're going to see this movie regardless of what you read here; however, I'll save you the time and say it did has that pure id gonzo that keeps the spirit of 1980s grindhouse film mostly alive. If you like, those films, maybe you will love this. If not, the tiresome old jokes will kill you. In my opinion, it was watchable, but this film could have been better.

Kristine Bruce Campbell, the man is a god in the horror fan base. A lot of people just adore this man, he's Ash from The Evil Dead trilogy! How could you not love this guy? But even though he has a huge fan base, he isn't known by everyone. Also he is kind of a has been, it's sad how his career never really took off. So through the indie film called My Name is Bruce, we are given an unoriginal plot with some goofy jokes on the world of Bruce Campbell and what it would have been like if he really did have to face a monster.In the mining town of Goldlick, Jeff, a young fan of Bruce Campbell, and his friend Clayton go out to a cemetery to meet two girls. Jeff removes a medallion off the mausoleum, unleashing the Chinese god of the dead, Guan-Di, who kills Clayton and the girls while Jeff flees. Meanwhile, famed B movie actor Bruce Campbell is promised a birthday surprise from his agent, Mills Toddner. Bruce meets Jeff, who kidnaps Campbell and takes him to Goldlick in hopes that his hero can save the town from Guan-Di. Upon arrival, Bruce assumes it's his birthday surprise from Mills, and thinks it's all a movie, despite a lack of cameras and a script, and agrees to "help". After gearing up at Goldlick's gun shop, Bruce and many citizens of Goldlick go out into the woods to take on Guan-Di, which Bruce still thinks is part of a movie. Bruce then finds out that it's all real and flees Goldlick, angering the townspeople, upsetting Jeff who will now take on the monster himself.This movie I think was made more for the fans as there are a lot of inside jokes. I like the little inside cameos and references, but I've seen Bruce Campbell movies. I don't think if my friends saw this that they would get a lot of the movie. There are some genuine laugh out loud moments, like when Bruce sees his fans right outside his studio and he has the war veteran fan who's just being a jerk to him so Bruce just kicks the fans wheel chair down the hill. Sounds mean, but I can understand what some of these stars would like to do to the fans who have over analyzed their films or have a sick obsession with them. The jokes do get very goofy at times and there are some moments that fall flat, mostly with the side characters who fall flat.There's a love story that just feels so contrived and unreal. I know the whole film is meant to be that way, but Bruce and his number one fan's mom who hates Bruce at first randomly falls for him out of no where. I would've preferred if she stayed consistent and just gave Bruce the rejection to show that he doesn't always get the girl. Also the plot isn't exactly original as we've seen comedies before where an actor thinks that something is a movie but it's real life. It can still be funny if written well. I'm sure that the writers were looking for this movie to be a cult classic and they really put their love and effort into it, it just didn't hit that right spot. It's a good movie, but again it's more for the fans as they will understand the jokes better than the average movie buff.Personally, I still liked the movie, I got what I wanted from it. Bruce seemed to have fun with it and it's important when it looks like at least the crew had fun because the love you put into a film is what the audience could feel. I give the crew credit for trying this out, maybe Bruce will never be a huge superstar, but I think he should be grateful for some of the fan base that he has, because when you lose the stalkers, that's when you're career is really going down the drain.7/10

BA_Harrison Cult B-movie actor Bruce Campbell is worshipped by his fans, many of whom would watch the bloke clip his toenails just so long as he did his trademark gurning and let loose with a few catchphrases in the process. In order to create a buffer between himself and these over-adoring followers, the star has carefully developed a reputation for being somewhat brusque when face-to-face with his devotees—requests to say 'Give me some sugar, baby' are apparently met with short shrift—and this affected animosity has since become part of the Campbell legend.In post-modern horror/comedy My Name Is Bruce, Campbell portrays himself as a highly exaggerated caricature of this obnoxious alter-ego—a wise-cracking, sexist, hard drinking jerk, quick with the quips, fast with the fillies, and mean to those who worship his every move; in the right hands, this knowingly silly slice of self-mockery could have been a lot of fun, but the wildly uneven script delivers only a few genuine laughs and zero scares (the film's demon about as frightening as your average Scooby Doo monster), while Campbell's routine direction displays little of the visual flair that one might expect from someone who has worked so closely with Sam Raimi in the past.Campbell does manage to deliver a reasonable smattering of gore, with heads lopped off left, right and centre, but that other prerequisite of any self-respecting B-movie—gratuitous female nudity—sadly goes unfulfilled, a shame because leading actress Grace Thorsen possesses a rack as fine and as mighty as Bruce's legendary chin.