Heckler is a good comedy documentary from Jamie Kennedy, and featuring many of the top comedians and filmmakers giving their opinion on hecklers. Some of the hecklers are even interviewed. The movies covers several topics, obviously hecklers, but also movie critics and online bloggers.

I guess I seem to fit into the “critics” or “online blogger” categories, as I am critical of things I hate…but do comedians really have any room to talk about critics? Most of them have made a career out of “making fun” or certain topics or people. Sure, hecklers, in many cases, deserve to be beaten over the head with a stick, but heckling is a lot different than a movie critic or some blogger giving their opinion. A heckler sits in an audience and interrupts a performance by yelling out criticism, whereas I don’t interrupt anyones performance on my blog, I simply call them stupid or horrible, and move on.

Anyway, it was an interesting film, and you should add it to your Netflix queue when you get a chance. +1 for Deep Roy (the Oompa Loompa from the newest Willie Wonka movie).

Nearly anyone who performs in public on a regular basis is familiar with the notion of the audience member who makes their opinions loudly and clearly known during the show, and like most comedians Jamie Kennedy has dealt with his fair share of hecklers over the course of his career. However, when Kennedy moved from stand-up comic to actor, he encountered a new breed of heckler — the on-line film critic who posts angry rants on the internet, taking Kennedy to task for nearly every aspect of such critically drubbed movies as Son Of The Mask and Malibu’s Most Wanted. Kennedy teamed up with director Michael Addis to make the documentary Heckler, which explores the increasingly combative relationship between artists and their audience. Heckler features interviews with a number of comics and musicians discussing their experiences with loud-mouthed spectators (including Bill Maher, David Cross, Louie Anderson, Rob Zombie, Joe Rogan and David Allen Grier), but Kennedy goes a step further, confronting a number of the writers who’ve bad-mouthed his work and questioning their role in the creative process. Kennedy and Addis also talk with filmmaker Uwe Boll, who went so far as to challenge his critics to a boxing match. Heckler received its world premiere at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide