Movie Review - My Name Is Bruce

Set in a small town called Gold Lick (population 339 according to the sign) and for those who blinked before the kid knocked over the wooden sign it read "Protected For Those Who Died. Beware Those Without Bean Curd" (it says that although some letters are missing), I assume the 4 kids (Jeff the Bruce Campbell fan, Clayton his cooler friend, Big Debbie who doesnt go to school & Little Debbie) are Goths or Emo (who else would want to get laid in an abandoned Chinese graveyard?).

After removing some sort of amulet from the abandoned mine entrance Jeff awakens an undead Chinese person who kills Clayton and the 2 Debbies, we then cut to the real Bruce Campbell coming off the set of some low budget movie and meeting his agent (played by Ted Raimi) in a strip bar.

This is really a movie for die hard Campbell fans (you'll be spotting Bruce related stuff everywhere including "Shemp" label whiskey that he's drinking in his trailer) and its not very good. Bruce is kidnapped by Jeff and the troubadours keep you updated on what little plot there is (letting you know the undead Chinese person is called Guan-Di and he's a guardian of the dead but also the God of Bean Curd).

Jeff returns to town with Bruce (who they have obviously confused with the various on screen characters he has played) and they are heralded as potential saviours of the town and when Bruce doesn't show up on the set of his movie he is replaced by a dummy. Bruce thinks he is in the town as part of his birthday present from his agent and Bruce thinks he is on an acting job.

In case you hadn't heard the troubadours explaining about the death of the Chinese Miners right at the start of the movie the town mayor gives a slide show to explain it all again. He also explains about Guan-Di again in case you'd forgotten about him.

Far too much time is spent from Bruce arriving in town to actually going out to confront Guan-Di and Campbell takes all the men of Gold Lick out to face Guan-Di killing & wounding several people in his retreat. Campbell bails from the scene on a stolen bicycle before stealing a car from an old lady (revealing how much of an egotistical heartless prick he is) after realising the monster is real.

Jeff rings Bruce to tell him he's going to face Guan-Di by himself which guilts Campbell into going back to face the demon (we get to see Bruce's real birthday gift which is an interesting surprise). Jeff's mom realises Bean Curd will help them and Bruce points out they need to return the amulet, Jeff blows up the mine entrance sealing Guan-Di inside and Bruce replaces the amulet but theres a triple twist ending the 1st and 2nd of which pretty much negate the entire movie up to that point.

Its a very weak movie, its low budget and the twists totally ruin what was already a pretty awful movie. Die hard Bruce Campbell fans will love it but fans of low budget horror probably won't.