How to Get Rid of Cellulite (Jak Się Pozbyć Cellulitu) is a 2011 Polish screwball comedy. Two friends, Ewa and Maja, find a masseuse, Kornelia, chained to a bed during their stay in the spa, and by freeing her, they start a chain of hilarious mistakes involving an exhibition of torture implements, Maja's jealous former boyfriend, and Ewa's jealous husband.
Coincidentally, the police are investigating a string of murders where all victims have been decapitated and triangular metal tags with numbers have been found on their bodies.
This film contains examples of:
- Brick Joke: In the opening scene, a chunk of bloody meat drops from the sky into a washbasin in a Belarussian monastery.
- Chekhov's Gun: The electric chair from Sing-Sing prison that Ewa rented for her exhibition of torture implements ends up being what finishes The Butcher.
- Chewing the Scenery: Krystian's jealous outburst in the Mistaken for Romance scene. He's bug-eyed, waving a pistol, emphasising every other word and even does an Aside Glance at the ceiling, asking "God, do you see it?!"
- Cloudcuckoolander: Kornelia. Jerry reveals that she has Split Personality since her accident with DMT two years prior, and wholly believes her fantasies. The one about him being a mad scientist too.
- Crazy Jealous Guy: Krystian, Maja's former boyfriend and meat magnate.
- Disposing of a Body: Discussing what to do with Jerry's corpse once they get him, Maja comes up with the idea to cut him up and tie the remains to weather balloons that will then fly across the border towards Belarus. They test the idea with beef first.
- Finger Gun: Ewa makes one while tripping on banana peels and discussing how would it be to keep men in a basement and drain their blood to sell it to pharmaceutical companies.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: The Butcher. The electric chair he has Ewa strapped in backfires and electrocutes him instead.
- I Can't Believe It's Not Heroin!: Kornelia gets Ewa, Maja and herself completely stoned on banana peels.
- Mad Scientist: Jerry the Butcher, who drains blood from women to sell it to pharmaceutical companies. Subverted, as Jerry is Kornelia's husband, and she's... not all there.
- Mushroom Samba: The song-and-dance number that happens when the three heroines get stoned on banana peels.
- Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Jerry the Butcher.
- Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: Krystian, in the scene where he intimidates Jerry after mistaking him for being Maja's new lover. He emphasises roughly every second word.Krystian: Fuck... NO. Just simply! Fucking! No! (Aside Glance) God, do you see it?!
- Serial Killer: The Butcher. Who turns out to not be Jerry. He's a Red Herring. The real killer is Maciek, Ewa's husband's lawyer, and he's doing it to join the mysterious Brotherhood of the Eighth Dawn.
- Stoners Are Funny: After rescuing Kornelia, Ewa and Maja get stoned and help Kornelia dig up a corpse in Jerry's back yard, taking a bone before Jerry and his dog show up. It later turns out the bone belonged to Jerry's pet chimp.
- Title Drop: While discussing very loudly in a playground how to get rid of a body, Maja does a Last-Second Word Swap, saying that they were discussing how to get rid of cellulite.
- You Kill It, You Bought It: After getting rid of Maciek, the three heroines receive a package containing five triangular metal tags with numbers and a letter that they are now allowed to initiate into the Brotherhood of the Eighth Dawn.
