If you were to hire Jack Brooks to fix a plumbing problem, chances are that you would have to spend more money to fix his fix than if you would have hired someone else. However, if you need him to takeout some nasty monsters, you will probably have a higher success rate.
When Jack was a boy, he witnessed his sister and parents get attacked by a monster. He was able to survive by running away, but that lead to anger issues. He visited a counselor to try and help his aggressive behavior, but the counselor has not been able to help Jack. There is a funny scene with Jack telling his counselor about an incident at Wong's and Jack is distraught because he really likes their egg rolls.
Through the advice of Jack's girlfriend (Eve), Jack has begun taking night classes at the community college. It's not much, but we get to meet the members of the class and the professor (Robert Englund). The professor asks Jack to look at a plumbing problem at his house and that's when the fun begins. After Jack breaks the well pump, a gas is released and the professor gets sort of enchanted by the gas and digs up a crate, which has a skeleton and a black heart. He eats the black heart and becomes a monster.
It takes a long time to set up, but the professor (now monster) has begun eating the students and transforming some into monsters themselves. Jack is able to escape, but while driving away, the radio plays "Beyond the Sea", which happens to be the same song that his family was brutally killed to and he returns to release his aggression on the monsters.
I would have liked the story to get established a little sooner than it did, but it was worth the wait. The movie is super silly with a main character that is fun to watch. Jack seems to blow his stack with very little persuasion. It reminds me a little of Army of Darkness. Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer is not quite there, but it's at least in the same ballpark.
I give this movie 4 1/2 out of 5 egg rolls.
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