Tommy Wiseau has made a career out of milking the hell out of his craptacular masterpiece, The Room, and now he’s produced what might be his second magnum opus: an Avengers/The Room crossover.
Lovingly titled Avengers: Friend Game, the five-minute mash up starts off with a “conversation” between Tommy and Nick Fury about the latter’s, uh, sex life (Nick doesn’t really know to be honest with you, but there’s a lot of work that still needs to be done), before things get incredibly weird at around the *checks timestamp* 59 second mark.
From there, what initially started off with bits and pieces of The Room spliced into various Avengers movies mutates into a bizarre music video that an acid trip on an acid trip can’t replicate.
It’s a drunken karaoke singalong that functions as both an ode to friendship and a reimagining of the MCU if it operated using the rules of whatever universe Wiseau is in. If you ever wondered what would happen if Wiseau’s BFF, Greg Sestero, confronted Thanos about the Mad Titan’s plan and suggested that he pivot to edamame instead of dusting half the universe, well, you got your answer right here.
The whole thing is actually pretty well done and almost certainly beyond Tommy’s skillset. There’s simply no way he’s capable of the surprisingly good editing we see in the video, though he deserves credit for the bit where he says “oh hi, doggy” to Rocket Raccoon.
Avengers: Friend Game plays jump rope with the line that separates insanity and genius. It’s also far and away the greatest thing we’ll see in 2019.
You may emerge from this five-minute experience dazed, confused, enlightened, inspired, or all of the above, but you certainly can’t deny that Tommy Wiseau is capable of capturing everyone’s with his brand of
“so bad it’s great” entertainment.