Bobcat Goldthwait’s new movie, with Robin Williams, looks really good

You may know him from his standup or from his role in the Police Academy series (that’s where I was introduced to him — you can see him starting at about 0:50 in this clip from Police Academy 2, when he’s still a gang leader, and not yet a recruit, or in much of this clip from Police Academy 3, where he joins the force (my fave of the series)) but in the past few years Bobcat Goldthwait has been making a name for himself as a writer and director.

Did you see Sleeping Dogs Lie? It’s a suprisingly touching movie about truthfulness in relationships that just happens to involve bestiality.

Now he’s coming out with a movie called World’s Greatest Dad. It stars Robin Williams, who has a full-frontal nude scene — and as Bobcat says, “that’s not the weird thing.”

I just read an interview with Bobcat over the Onion AV Club, where the movie is described as a “another daring black comedy centering on a sexual transgression. World’s Greatest Dad stars Robin Williams as a frustrated would-be novelist who fictionalizes a diary for his hateful teenage son (Spy Kids’ Daryl Sabara) after Sabara dies via autoerotic asphyxiation.”

In the interview, Bobcat talks about how he doesn’t sweat the fact that he’ll forever be remembered as the guy from Police Academy (whew! I just spend an hour watching clips on YouTube, for real) and how his new movie, in some ways, mirrors the memorializing of Michael Jackson.

Here’s a trailer:

But, you might get a better sense of the movie from this bit, in which you can also hear Bobcat’s “real” voice: