Here’s the theatrical version of a long-running, pseudo-doc-styled Canadian cult TV series that centers on alcoholic, pot-smoking petty criminals living together in a mobile home community in Nova Scotia. What the bunglers lack in brains they make up for in audacious ambition, as they attempt to rob a movie theater, return to prison to finish a hockey game and find true love in a topless nightclub. Carrying the show is Robb Wells as Ricky, a slightly thinner version of John Candy’s overconfident hustler character. Co-star Mike Smith’s kitten-loving, innocent moron Bubbles, in bottle-bottom glasses, is funny in reaction shots but downright hilarious when he opens his mouth to speak.

Shelf Talk: Yank newcomers to the seven-season Trailer Park Boys will fall right in with the shenanigans as backstories are hardly necessary. Screen Media will have to introduce the franchise, but if this one hits, sequels will only do bigger business. Promotional assistance from Howard Stern and High Times Magazine and a comedy tour are coming. Push this one to mockumentary fans and those who like the low-key nuttiness of The Office (both the U.K. original and the U.S. version). Trailer Park Boys also will appeal to SCTV aficionados, any self-deprecating Canucks and fans of such Canadian rockers as Tragically Hip’s Gord Downie and Rush’s Alex Lifeson, both of whom appear in cameos.