They Call Him Sasquatch is a comedy that takes an over-the-top, grossly exaggerated look at the types of people who hunt Bigfoot. This is goofball, slapstick comedy to the max. You have been warned. Still, I have to give this film credit for being one of the best movies of this type that I have found. For it to be goofball, they sure brought in some heavy hitters for talent. The stunts were engineered by Mike Martinez, who also did the stunts for Gone in 60 Seconds. It may be goofball, but it is professional goofball. There is also much truth beneath the comedy.

The story: two hunters, Brett Conway (Jeffrey Phelps) and Max Pinford (E. Sean Griffin), claim to have encountered and filmed Bigfoot. Television producer Stu Glassman (Garry Marshall) sends his star reporter Ned Dwyer (Neal McDonough) and cameraman Dwight Porter (Jordan Black) into the woods to find Bigfoot. He arranges for them to be accompanied by a group of Bigfoot fanatics -- weirdos, idiots and megalomaniacs.

Doris Stuckling (Rebecca Brand) claims to have a psychic link with Bigfoot. She has baggage in the form of her fast-talking dentist husband Phil (Randy McPherson), gothic son Phil Jr. (Trevor O'Brien) and apathetic daughter Connie (Meghan Pool). Neil Ingraham (Tom Bresnahan) is a clinical psychologist who uses pheromones and Sasquatch sounds that he designed to attract the creature. His baggage is the lovely, over-sexed, under-loved Bella (Vene L. Arcoraci), who has the hots for Bigfoot.

Marion Deezle (Stephen Van Dorn) and Cosmic Conner (Jarret LeMaster) are rock singers in the band Bigfeet who do songs about Bigfoot. Robert Mabley (Chuck McCann) and Howard Dell (Warren Berlinger) are anthropologists who both served in the Marines. Robert still has a lot of the Marine inside him and is the take-charge guy who leads the group and tries to bring scientific order out of dingbat chaos.

When this group hits the woods, it is a laugh-a-minute. They immediately get sideways with a wildman named Buzz Schrott (Peter Fluet), who claims to have been raised by Bigfoot. He wants them to get out of the woods and not come back.

Each person has their own motivations for finding Bigfoot, but when Michael Jackson offers a million dollars for a live one for his zoo, every person suddenly has the same million reasons to catch one.

They Call Him Sasquatch leaves you with a lot to think about, especially if you are a fan of Bigfoot. It is a well-written piece that includes a representative from almost every type of Bigfoot fan. It looks at the cause and effect behind their beliefs and poses questions about them.

The photography is inconsistent in quality and drives me bonkers by jumping back and forth between people when they are talking. It would have been much better to back off 10 feet and include both people in the shot instead of trying for extreme close-ups of each speaker.

I love the soundtrack -- most of the songs, anyway. I really got into one romping, stomping number with lots of heavy brass at the beginning of the movie. It sets the tone for the entire movie.

The acting is all exaggerated and over the top, done to the utmost degree of the character's type. The stunts were great. (McCann, Berlinger and McDonough did their own stunts.)

They Call Him Sasquatch is a hilarious look at the Bigfoot fans and the lengths to which they will go to prove his existence.