ppd-130-355180
Unspeakably bad. Script, acting, everything. Lame, pathetic, not even good enough to be adolescent humour. Shockingly, embarrassingly cringeworthy. Completely unwatchable. 20 minutes was enough for me.
FlashCallahan
Joel and Molly are on a double date with their friends Kyle and Karen. After Kyle tells them a story about how he and Karen disagree on the Sunday paper, they ask Joel and Molly how they met. They describe their relationship as something like a romantic comedy. Joel is the typical leading man that is attractive without being threatening, and Molly is a quirky and klutzy woman. Their relationship, as most romantic comedies do, begins in New York City.......This is one of those films that you shouldn't like, it shouldn't work, but for some reason, it's a barrel of laughs from start to finish.The film is basically a satire of basically all the romantic comedies made from 1989 to present, but it most notably references You've Got Mail, Forget Paris, and When Harry Met Sally. And for the most part, the film gets it right.The cast are great, Rudd is as likable as he ever is and has great chemistry with Poehler, and at times, they are much better than the material, so they make the film that little bit better than it should be.But every now and again, the movie decides to go full spoof rather than satire, and this is when the film makes you cringe rather than smile. The satirical references to the genre they are mocking are spot on and close to genius, but the sight gags just don't work, just like spoofs haven't worked since the last Naked Gun movie, so luckily they don't use them too often.The end of the film is completely bonkers, featuring Michael Shannon with a sword, and Jeffrey Dean Morgan probably being the coolest he ever will be.So the film works, it really shouldn't, but the cast are so likable, they should have toned down the spoof parts though.
webbsk
For a movie that has a ton of very funny people, this is not a very funny film. The filmmaker seems to think repeating the clichés of a RomCom and winking sidelong at the audience makes the old clichés funny but really it doesn't. They're still tired and worn out clichés that make this difficult to sit through without getting bored. That is not good satire! I agree, it's difficult to send up a genre: Airplane and Galaxy Quest can't be made everyday. But I feel like this film is more in the same vein as the nth Scary Movie or Not Another Teen Movie: not worth the time to watch them. It's too bad because a lot of good talent goes to waste here.
Rizzleness
This is a movie you have to "get" to appreciate, and if you miss the foundation of it (or simply don't find it funny), you are going to suffer watching it. It is jam packed with dead on, often subtle (although usually not) clichés of the ham fisted acting, trite screenplay lines, and tired plot points that are so commonplace in American films that you may mistake the film itself for being clichéd, ham fisted, trite, and tired.But make no mistake - this is not a "stupid" movie. Instead, it is asking a lot from its audience, maybe more than they can give. I'm not sure if anyone who is under thirty, or has not experienced the hours upon hours of sitcoms, television and film dramas, and of course, romantic comedies that this film draws from, can be in on the joke.Personally, I howled with laughter throughout.
AD
