HOW TO PICK UP GIRLS VIDEO by the Apes of God

Review by Doug Simpson, Campus Circle Magazine


September 20, 2000

Written and Directed by Gilbert Marhoefer

Plug this into your computer and you'll see a perfectly realized comedy of errors, where a luckless lad finds a magical book that changes his dreams into reality, and then some (the outcome is worthy of a Harlan Ellison conclusion). It deserves to be pick of the week on I film.com or programmed between longer flicks on the Sundance Channel. Hopefully the music and movie industries will see this as the opportunity it is and begin collaborating by adding high-quality cinema to CDs, bolstering both independent musicians and filmmakers.

GRADE: A