Director: Adam
McKay | Starring:
Will Ferrell, Christina Applgate, Paul Rudd,
Steve Carell, Reese Witherspoon
Released: 2004
| Runtime: 94m
| Rating (out of 5):
*½ |
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Apparently I'm like
an asshole or something. I just don't like these movies--despite everyone
on Earth telling me I should. I didn't like Old
School. I didn't like American
Pie or any movie that was once an SNL skit. The only Adam
Sandler flick I actually liked was Punch-Drunk
Love. I'd rather watch a movie like Snatch
(which I found endlessly funny) fifty times over before I'd watch
Meet
the Parents once. Now I know I'm cutting a wide swath here,
but I just can't stand ''character'' comedies. Generally you can tell
one by the title. The
Animal, The
Waterboy, Dodgeball,
Zoolander.
The biggest offenders of this genre are Sandler,
Rob Schneider and, unfortunately, Ben
Stiller. These movies that should be five minute skits or shorts,
but end up as features. Actors fall in love with a character and try
to create a movie around it--usually with horrible results. The characters
are one dimensional and usually without any kind of connection with
the audience. Will Ferrell is quickly moving into this territory with
his Ron Burgundy character. The man is utterly without substance (not
to the point of Deuce Bigelow, of course), but is just a caricature
of a caricature. Haha. 70s guy with a hairy chest who loves the booze
and the women, but is really just a mislead child underneath. Great,
that's deep. Not that I'm looking for deep here, but if the movie
was in the least bit funny, I would have had something else to concentrate
on. There are a bunch of dick jokes, bad acting, and even a rumble
scene in which guys get limbs chopped off. It's as if the actors themselves
are actually patronizing the script, kind of sneering at the retardedness
of the whole thing. Or maybe that's just me projecting. Nitpicking
script and character flaws hardly seems worth the time. In fact, I'm
just going to stop here cuz I know most people disagree with me (aside
from like my grandma, who is like 94) and put this thing to rest.
[HBO]
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