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“Roadside Prophets” is meant t…

February 8, 2010

“Roadside Prophets” is meant to be a quirky allegation of two misfit bikers on a quest to find El Dorado. It’s a sort of fairy falsification, a ’90s version of “Easy Rider,” but it’s so loosely strung together, so frivolous and so willfully quirky, it gets lost in its own meanderings.

Movies that try as hard to be hip as this one does are an arduous test of one’s patience, mainly because the guise of hipness is merely an excuse for the writer-director (Abbe Wool, who co-wrote the script for “Sid and Nancy”) not to bother himself with the basics of character, or motivation, or narrative sense. Things happen, without cause or explanation, and that’s that, because to concern yourself with such trivialities would be too conventional, too, well, uncool.

The film’s plot is too inconsequential to go into. It’s enough to say that the action is initiated when Joe (John Doe, co-founder of the rock group X) witnesses the death of a fellow biker whose last wish it was to visit a Nevada casino in the town of El Dorado. Or that’s at least how he remembers it. (As it turns out, though, the town’s name is Jackpot.) And being a man of depth, Joe pays for the stranger’s cremation, pours his ashes into the gas tank of the dead man’s Harley and sets out to deliver them to his Vegas Valhalla.

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Along the way, Sam meets up with a slew of oddballs, including Arlo Guthrie, Timothy Leary, John Cusack and David Carradine, whose sole function is to contribute, however marginally, to the film’s offbeat spirit. One of the oddballs — an obnoxious young nut named Sam (the Beastie Boys’ Adam Horovitz), who travels from one Motel 9 to another searching for his lost parents — becomes Joe’s traveling partner and snot-nosed Sancho Panza. For some reason, this sawed-off sidekick periodically sets off a Roman candle. Don’t ask why, but it’s the only time the film provides any fireworks.

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