All Things:Comedy

jerseydevil said:
Really? Barring say...Steel Magnolias, when does any of these star filled 'based on a beloved novel' glory projects ever turn into anything besides disappointing. If you were betting that HollywoodStock.com thing this would have been a no brainer.
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You're right. I guess I just keep waiting for Jason Bateman to redeem himself, but maybe I need to treat Arrested Development as the blip on the radar.
 
Seth Rogen, Adam McKay, and Ben Schwartz Set for New Comedy

Here’s the press release:

LOS ANGELES, CA (September 18, 2014) – Gary Sanchez Productions, Point Grey Pictures and Good Universe announced today that they have pre-emptively purchased an untitled comedy pitch from actor and Emmy? Award-winning writer Ben Schwartz which Adam McKay is attached to direct and Seth Rogen is attached to star in. Schwartz will also co-star in the film.

Point Grey principals Rogen, Evan Goldberg and James Weaver will produce alongside Gary Sanchez’s Will Ferrell, McKay and Kevin Messick. Good Universe’s Nathan Kahane and Joe Drake will executive produce with Erin Westerman overseeing for the company. Robyn Wholey will Co-Produce.

“Evan and Seth have been doing amazing things and we’re so excited to work with them. Ben, not so much. Most of my problems with him are personal ones, but I have to give it up…he did come up with a great idea,” said McKay.

“Every two thousand years the planets of our galaxy align in a perfect line that funnels the cosmic energies of the universe to flow into one perfect comedic collaboration. The time is now. This is that project. Nothing will ever be the same,” said Rogen with Goldberg adding, “McKay and Schwartz are reeeeeeal smart, well-endowed guys and we couldn’t be more excited to be working with them.”


Read more at Seth Rogen, Adam McKay, and Ben Schwartz Set for New Comedy
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Watch: Two Clips And New Pics From ‘Laggies’ With Keira Knightley, Chloe Moretz & Sam Rockwell

Chloe Moretz and Sam Rockwell in the same movie? I don't need to know anything else.

But since I'm here already...

the movie centers on a drifting, responsibility-averse woman approaching her thirties, who can’t get her **** together. The movie stars Keira Knightley as the laggie in question, and centers on the odd, unexpected relationship between the older woman and a teenager she befriends, played by Chlo? Grace Moretz. Of course things get more complicated when the laggie gets mixed up with her friend’s laywer dad (Sam Rockwell).

Co-starring Ellie Kemper, Mark Webber, Kaitlyn Dever, and Tiya Sircar, “Laggies” debuted at Sundance earlier this year. Despite talk that the title would eventually change for release—perhaps the thought at the time “Laggies” being too obscure a term—the name has stuck. A24 is releasing the film on October 24th
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That's a pretty decent rest of the cast, too.
 
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand....

Review: 'Laggies' Starring Keira Knightley Is An Uneven, Patchy, Feel-Good, Crowd-Pleasing Comedy

With a bit more bite, “Laggies” could have been Lynn Shelton’s “Greenberg,” a sharper and better-observed comedy looking at the inert and dysfunctional. But as it is, “Laggies” ultimately ends up being a feel-good, crowd-pleasing comedy with little substantive texture (even Judd Apatow comedies go darker than this) that settles down on all the safe and expected places you might imagine it to.
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Still gonna see it.
 
Variety Film Review: ‘Horrible Bosses 2’

The wild card this time is Day, who seems to have imbibed helium in between takes, pushing his hyper-neurotic-human-chipmunk routine to often excruciating extremes. There are times when you may wish he’d tone it down, but toning it down would probably have been antithetical to the spirit of the whole enterprise, reducing “Horrible Bosses 2″ to the level of forgettable mediocrity rather than the memorable, even indelible awfulness to which it cheerfully and sometimes successfully aspires.
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Review: 'Dumb and Dumber To' Starring Jim Carrey And Jeff Daniels

It's wrong to expect something deep from a movie called "Dumb and Dumber To." There aren't any pressing thematic or cultural concerns that will be explored in a movie that is willing to be silly but never pushes itself to be really absurd. For a while, the Farrelly Brothers could make extreme comedy palpable for the masses while not cheating the emotional undercurrents of their films with easy-to-grasp gross out gag (with films like "There's Something About Mary" and "Kingpin"). But in recent years, the ratio has been off, and their movies have been either exclusively saccharine or just off-putting and disgusting. "Dumb and Dumber To" is their attempt to get back into their groove, but everything feels off and, worse than that, safe. The original film was unpredictable and loose and every so often gave up the aura of dangerousness. If anything, the sequel is a tepid, watered down, and at 100-minutes oftentimes boring attempt to recapture the magic but without any of the whimsy. If anything, "Dumb and Dumber To" should have been, well, dumber. Right now it's just painful. But hey, over the past 20 years, you asked for it. And you got it. [F]
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