Absurdist comedy reaches a new peak with Matt Barats’ Anchors Aweigh , a just-over-70-minute comedy that starts offbeat and ends in a manner that’s equally as jarring. It’s far removed from the kind of comedy that would be typically found within a multiplex exhibition (the closest reference point I can think of is Gail Daughtry and The Celebrity Sex Pass ; it takes David Wain’s tongue-in-cheek/absurdist maximalism and cranks it to the nth degree), and instead associates itself with the hyper-edited and fast-paced content that you’d commonly find on the average social media reels section. The comedy— which jumps between Infomercials -adjacent skits (Julie Miller’s Rate The Cookie specifically) and genuine archival footage from when Barats was a teenager, making video essays for high school credit about how it’s “not hard to find a good episode of Family Guy ,” is just as bizarre as it is deeply inventive. Within the context of Midnight Madness and its in...