What started out as a regular week quickly turns into the worst few days of his life when Chris (Ken Jeong), a struggling nightclub owner, fails to pay back a loan shark and decides the only way to get the money is to kill his pick in the annual “Who Will Die This Year” celebrity death pool: David Hasselhoff. Aided by his friends Fish (Rhys Darby) and Tommy (Jim Jefferies), Chris desperately tries everything he can to off the master of slow-motion running and claim the jackpot. But the task is not as easy as he thought, especially when your target is The Hoff!
Every year Chris and his friends choose a celebrity that they think will die that year and they place bets. Every year, Chris chooses David Hasselhoff because his career has basically gone downhill. Conveniently, Hasselhoff’s manager contacts Chris to have the Hoff make an appearance at his nightclub, which he spends plenty of money advertising. Then, last minute, Hasselhoff cancels and hits up another nightclub. Angry, Chris seeks Hoff out to confront him and lands himself with a sexual harassment suit. Now in trouble with the law and several hundred thousand dollars in debt to a loan shark, Chris seeks help from a friend who helps him with various ways to kill a person and get away with it. Chris decides to kill Hasselhoff and win the bet against his friends in order to pay his debts and put his life back together.
Killing Hasselhoff is one giant roast of David Hasselhoff. No one can say the man doesn’t have a sense of humor as the whole movie is really just bashing on how low his career has gotten, and he is in on the joke. The entire film is absurd but it does give off quite a few laughs in that 1980’s Weekend at Bernie’s way.
There are a number of appearances including Justin Bieber as the voice of K.I.T.T., Howie Mandel, Jon Lovitz, Michael Winslow, Master P, Rick Fox and Melanie Brown. Basically, the cast is that of a Sharknado movie, scooping up as many B-list actors as possible but, again, it only seems appropriate in a film about killing a B-list actor.
Killing Hasselhoff is not the comedy of the year but it will keep you entertained with some good chuckles.
