Bigger Like Me

While personal essays are a legitimate form of documentary filmmaking, obnoxious works that cross a line into self-obsession can be hard to take. Comedian Greg Bergman’s nonsensical Bigger Like Me—about his quest to make his penis bigger and/or wider—is a case in point. An extended cut of his 2014 documentary Big Like Me, Bergman’s off-the-wall, priapic preoccupation causes stress in his marriage and brings a strain of weirdness to his relationship with his younger brother. Trying to find a clinic that can do more for him after pills, pumps, and injections have failed, Bergman travels to Tijuana, Mexico, for controversial surgery. In the film’s worst scene (selected from a smorgasbord of cringe-worthy moments), viewers witness a naked Bergman undergoing a tortuous process on his genitals. It looks like Dr. Mengele’s idea of male enhancement, but does it work? And does Bergman finally get what he wanted? Frankly, there’s not much reason to care. Extras include bonus footage. Not recommended. Aud: P. (T. Keogh)