Bobby Sweet (Ricky Glore, who also wrote and directed the picture) spends his days slinging burgers and unclogging toilets at the local fast food eatery, but he has high hopes on becoming a musician and enjoying all of the prestige that comes with it.
Bobby’s boss Nick (Andrew Gordon) has other ideas for our hero’s future… namely taking over the operations of the business because he can’t leave it to his disappointing offspring.
Bobby wants to warble out his tunes, but he agrees and after Nick buys the farm Bobby finds himself in the middle of a scheme by Nick’s daughter Laddie (Eileen Earnest) to increase business by introducing a new ingredient to the restaurant’s offerings.
It doesn’t take a genius to suss out what that ingredient truly is, and before you can say “Motel Hell”, that man-centric mystery meat really takes the fast food biz by sinister storm… and Bobby can spend his time working on his craft as long as he keeps his yapper shut about those secret ingredients that make the meat all the more sweeter!
As Laddie goes further over the ledge, will our crooning protagonist be able to remain silent?!!
I’ll give Sweet Meats this much, that Glore really goes balls out for our entertainment…
In true “let’s put on a show” fashion, this manic mother fucker sings, acts, directs… hell, he may have even done catering on this bitch… and the end result may be a tad disarming for your average Troma lovin’ psychotronic pseudo-fright flick aficionado.
Through all of the shit, puke, and boobs… the average Troma flick contains plenty of heart and a genuine commitment from it’s cast (who often double as crew, or anything else that may be needed on set), and Sweet Meats is certainly no exception… and with it’s songs, cannibalism, and over-all cartoon-like vibe it’s easy to see why Llloyd Kaufman and Troma chose to release this lil’ noxious number!
But against type, there is little in the way of naked flesh or blood-drenched gore sequences… though to be fair, we do get a mammoth shit festooned with pieces of corn… so some of you may have a bitch there, but if you enjoyed Troma releases like Cannibal: the Musical… especially Cannibal: The Musical… you’ll be good to go here!
To increase your appetite for Sweet Meats, Troma have tossed a few extras in the bag which include: an intro to the film from Troma head honcho Kaufman, an absolutely fantastic, highly listenable audio commentary with cast and crew that really brings to the fore the fun inherit in bringing Sweet Meats to life, a duo of news segments covering the film, a “making of” doc, a conversation between Glore and Kaufman that documents Troma accepting the film, a collection of featurettes on how the film’s songs came to be, Sweet Meats table read, a Q&A sesh, the flicks “proof of concept” trailer, and it’s theatrical trailer!
Sweet Meats is a funny, absurd, musical patchwork that succeeds at offering unique Troma-lite fair as well as charm… albeit a funhouse mirror version of charm…
