or ... "The Case of the Dead People in LA."

This one came and went so fast I never noticed it. Too bad - it is by far the funniest movie of 2005,- and maybe of the past couple years. It's a film noir / dark satire / buddy movie with Robert Downey Junior as a tweaked out New Yorker lost in the glitz and plastic of LA [and he does an amazing job - go figure! Think Woody Allen on speed], Val Kilmer as the butch homo detective [in his words, "This isn't good cop bad cop. This is fag and New Yorker"], and Michelle Monoghan as the femme fatale [she's gorgeous and funny and ought to be A-List already].

I don't know how I missed it. There probably weren't enough poop jokes for Hollywood to market it as a comedy, and the language is too rough for the good people who organize the gay film circuit [i.e. Kilmer on his Derringer: "I call it my "faggot gun", because it's only good for a couple of shots and then you have to drop it for something better. "]

I'm sure this isn't for everyone, but if you like your humor black and fast then this is for you.