The Pee Pee Poo Poo Man (2025) – Crap

Released: 12th September
Seen: 12th September

This year, I managed to make it to my favourite film festival in the world, the Sydney Underground Film Festival. It’s the kind of film festival that pushes the boundaries of good taste and often surprises me with what it presents. Last year, I didn’t have the time to actually review what I’d seen because of my full-time job, so it’s really nice that this year I can return to reviewing what I went to see this year. This is the third film that I saw there, and when I looked at the schedule of what was on offer, I saw that on the same day there was a perfect pair of films. The first was the documentary on the Butthole Surfers, which I absolutely adored. Within an hour of that film finishing, I would then be able to see a film called The Pee Pee Poo Poo Man… Well, you can imagine my delight at the comedic value of following Butthole Surfing with Pee Pee Poo Poo, that’s too perfect a pair to pass up and with a title like The Pee Pee Poo Poo Man, surely it’ll be some dumb fun to numb the brain with, right? Well… it was dumb, I can definitely call it dumb.

The Pee Pee Poo Poo Man follows paranoid loser Miguel (Rishi Rodriguez) who one day loses his mind and goes on a crime spree where he runs around Canada and throws buckets of piss and shit on unwitting random people… that’s it, that’s the entire plot. Did you expect anything grander than that? The film is called The Pee Pee Poo Poo Man, it’s about a guy who throws piss and shit on people and THAT’S THE MOVIE!

I’m not going to pretend that I went into this expecting much more than the exact plot that I just described, after all, why should one expect more when a film has a title like The Pee Pee Poo Poo Man? It delivers pretty much what you would expect: a maniacal lead performance by a man who is apparently cool being known as “That guy who threw fake piss and shit on about 20 people over the course of almost an hour and a half”, and a bunch of people pretending to react in horror after having piss and shit dumped on them. It’s the kind of joke that you might see done by the Jackass gang, except the Jackass gang would actually have buckets of piss and shit to throw on each other, and they’d have the joke stop after 5 minutes because no way in hell can you make this last for nearly an hour and a half and still be entertaining.

Now obviously there is more to The Pee Pee Poo Poo Man than just a guy throwing piss and shit on people, it includes a subplot about the CIA and an interview with a reporter and a couple of the eventual piss and shit wearers have little scenes that are meant to try and make them out to be actual characters but at the end of the day, none of that matters because you have a maniac in a hard hat throwing buckets of human waste on people in the middle of Canada. Apparently, this film is based on a real thing that happened, or at least a little bit of Canadian folklore, and while I’m sure that was a wild period in Canadian history, the joke isn’t strong enough to make for a full movie… especially one that’s just this badly shot.

To the surprise of no one, a film called The Pee Pee Poo Poo Man was filmed pretty much guerrilla-style, “guerrilla” in this case meaning “We didn’t have the time or patience to frame a shot properly or turn the grain on the camera down to a point where things were worth looking at”. It’s just not a pleasant-looking film, even without the large amounts of liquid excrement being poured all over the lens. No shot looks good, the audio sounds like it was recorded by a microphone that was 10 feet away from the rest of the crew, none of the performers are even trying (why should they? It’s THE PEE PEE POO POO MAN!) and the dialogue… well, maybe it’s for the best that the audio isn’t great because there were no real jokes there or anything in the dialougue that could make it worth hearing. It’s just a film that has one gag that it hammers into the ground, for a brief moment, you can almost get into the absolute absurdity that this is what you’re actually seeing them do, but eventually, after a solid hour and a half of seeing non-solid fecal matter being thrown about, it just stops being funny.

John Waters has one of my favourite sayings around the idea of taste: “one must remember that there is such a thing as good bad taste and bad bad taste”. John Waters having a drag queen eat an actual piece of dog shit on camera is in bad taste, but it’s done in such a way that it leans towards good bad taste as it knew the rules to break and ended up being an iconic moment of cinema… The Pee Pee Poo Poo Man is an example of bad bad taste, an unfunny, foul joke repeated over and over again until the wheels have long fallen off and the stench of boredom has taken over. By the end of the film, I was bored… bored at seeing a grown man throw a decently sized quantity of runny turds and urine over people just trying to enjoy a nice day in a Canadian park. I didn’t know one could be bored with such things, but I was.

Shock of all shocks, The Pee Pee Poo Poo Man isn’t a good film. Hell, it’s almost like the people making it made deliberate choices to avoid the chance that they might accidentally make a good film, that might’ve ruined the joke! Being hard to watch because of the content would be one thing, it’s no surprise that the buckets of piss and shit are just vile to look at, but it doesn’t help that the film itself is just not good on a technical level. This isn’t one of those cases where a film is so bad it’s good; this is a film that’s just bad but if you’re in the exact right headspace (I assume this headspace can only be reached by using large quantities of hallucinogenic drugs) it might get a little laugh out of you for the absurdity of it all. It’s the exact film you expected it to be when you read the title… take that how you will.