Review:  F-bomb-filled ‘Swearnet’ loses steam after awhile

Comic actors Mike Smith, John Paul Tremblay and Robb Wells portrayed the rude-and-lewd troika known as the Trailer Park Boys in the eponymous hit Canadian TV series as well as in TV specials and feature films. Now the three play versions of themselves, post-”Trailer Park” success, in the funny if rampantly crude “Swearnet: The Movie.”

How crude? The F-bomb is unleashed a reported 935 times — and that’s hardly the worst of it.

The film finds the trio stripped of the rights to their Trailer Park Boys franchise and without a mainstream outlet to broadcast their torrentially profane humor. Desperate for money (loan sharks factor in) and a place to spread their uber-foul comedy stylings, they go DIY and create the no-holds-barred Swearnet.com (which, in reality, the group did).

The pay website, hosted by Smith, Tremblay, Wells and a boozy mascot dubbed Swearman (Patrick Roach), features news, reality TV bits, “Jackass”-like gotchas and more designed to amuse, shock and amaze — rules and ethics be damned.

Not surprisingly, it works. Until it doesn’t. Kind of like the movie itself. As written by Smith, Tremblay and Wells and directed by Warren P. Sonoda, “Swearnet” builds up enough brazen energy and crass goodwill to propel a watchable first hour before it starts to flounder.

That’s when the ripe Swearnet concept becomes swallowed up by an intersecting B-story involving a Porsche race, a hot public relations gal (Mishael Morgan), a one-eyed old horndog (Howard Jerome) and take-’em-or-leave-’em comedians Carrot Top and Tom Green. Things get back on track by the fade-out, but a lengthy, end-credits postscript is a patience pusher.

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“Swearnet: The Movie.”

MPAA rating: None.

Running time: 1 hour, 52 minutes.

Playing: At AMC Universal CityWalk Stadium 19; AMC Orange 30.