May 19 2013 09:36 PM | Malkmusian in Media Reviews

Hulk Hogan is one of cinema's finest achievements. What I mean is that he managed to screw up the basics of acting so bad that, despite his experience with theatricality concerning professional wrestling, it makes anything he stars in absolutely incredible to watch. Hogan is so uncharismatic of an actor that he rarely even signs up to do a film, but when he does, you're in for a whole new world. Watching films like No Holds Barred (Hulk Hogan plays a wrestler who makes a terrorist shit his pants) and Suburban Commando (Hulk Hogan plays an alien who has no concept of inconspicuousness) are an absolute delight in that these are not typical wrestler fare. You see, wrestlers mainly act in action films - for example, "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, John Cena, and the Rock fit perfectly at home in films that require them to stand still, break peoples' necks, and blow up all of Dallas. Rarely do you see a wrestler tackle a family film, but when that occasion comes (i.e. the Rock's 2007-2010 stint; John Cena's surreal cameo in Fred: The Movie), these films transform from mediocre bargain bin filler to cinematic masterpieces. If only all films could have Cena ripping Lucas Cruikshank's arms off while screaming "YOU CAN'T SEE ME" and flexing his muscles every ten seconds.

But Mr. Nanny is on a completely different level. While it is by no means a good film in the conventional sense, it becomes an incredible black comedy once somebody really understands how the thin...

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