All Things:Comedy

Vacation has moved into the top slot for comedy of the year for me. So many LOL moments had the entire theatre going.

Also saw the preview for The Night Before... looked good but it's a Christmas movie that's not a Christmas movie? :)
 
TIFF Review: 'Mr. Right' Starring Anna Kendrick, Sam Rockwell, Tim Roth & The RZA

Mind-numbingly nonsensical sequences — Hopper dictating events of Francis' killing spree as it happens, from the inside of a van, by looking at a billboard, takes the early cake — and a frivolous attitude towards violence, relationships, animals, FBI agents, people in general but women especially, turns "Mr. Right" into a one-dimensional, lazy, mildly offensive attempt at entertainment and humor. Certain moments make you think it's written and directed in a self-deprecating style, which gives it a few points for, at least, knowing how bad it is. But, that doesn't make it any more watchable. [D]
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Sounds like someone may have missed the point on this. Not sure a movie with a cast like that and a script by Max Landis can be considered bad by any quantifiable measure.
 
adgy-san said:
TIFF Review: 'Mr. Right' Starring Anna Kendrick, Sam Rockwell, Tim Roth & The RZA



Sounds like someone may have missed the point on this. Not sure a movie with a cast like that and a script by Max Landis can be considered bad by any quantifiable measure.
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‘Mr. Right’ Review: A Candy-Colored Action/Rom-Com | TIFF 2015
http://collider.com/mr-right-review-anna-kendrick-sam-rockwell-tiff-2015/

Mr. Right is the second of four movies written by Max Landis that will hit screens this year and while it’s got quite a bit in common with his last script American Ultra, this flick feels a little tighter and is a hell of a lot more fun. A big reason is tone. While American Ultra dipped in and out of darkness and lightness a little awkwardly, Mr. Right is a big candy-colored rush of entertainment from the first frame to the last, combining quirk comedy and hyper stylized violence with cartoonish glee. It’s almost as if something like Married To The Mob came along with explosions of John Woo action. Or maybe the movie is it’s own thing, just one that made up of elements of many different flicks you’ve seen and loved before.
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It’s a pretty clever idea for a movie by Landis, combining meet-cute rom-com tropes with slapstick shootout action. Both genres are pitched at the same heightened level and fit together rather well thanks to the script’s twisted, movie-drunk wit. The romance is laced with far too much neuroses and weirdo behaviour to ever come off as corny, while the action is executed in such an over-the-top and even slapstick manner that it never stretches into the disturbing. So you get two great crowd-pleasing tastes that surprisingly taste great together and compliment each other rather than distracting from one and other. Spanish director Paco Cabezas plays it all out in big, bright colourful visuals. Costumes are all vibrant and rooted in charmingly tacky Americana like an 80s Jonathan Demme picture, while the action scenes take the idea of choreographing shootouts as dance sequences rather literally. Cabezas heightens every element of the movie to hit a joyful level of stylistic excess that suits Landis’ movie-movie writing style rather well.

Of course a movie like this could never work without the duo cast at the center and thankfully the filmmakers nailed that one perfectly as well. Anna Kendrick commits to the crazy end of her character’s spectrum from the start, while still remaining immensely likable a charming. She was a wise casting choice since her tiny frame makes her inevitable transition into action star in the second half feel unexpected, even though she clearly has the chops to pull it off. If anything, Sam Rockwell is even better. A deeply underrated character actor, Rockwell has always had it in him to be a manic Michael Keaton style leading man, he just never got the role to suit him. Well, this is it. Not only does it test the limits of his quirky charms and comedic chops, but also the guy gets to play out action scenes like musical numbers and nails the physicality with ease.
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There ya go Adge.
 
jerseydevil said:
‘Mr. Right’ Review: A Candy-Colored Action/Rom-Com | TIFF 2015
http://collider.com/mr-right-review-anna-kendrick-sam-rockwell-tiff-2015/


There ya go Adge.
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‘The Bronze’ Trailer: Melissa Rauch Goes for the NSFW Gold But Doesn’t Stick It
http://collider.com/the-bronze-red-band-trailer-melissa-rauch/

Here’s the official synopsis:

In 2004, Hope Ann Greggory became an American hero after winning the bronze medal for the women’s gymnastics team. Today, she’s still living in her small hometown, washed-up and embittered. Stuck in the past, Hope must reassess her life when a promising young gymnast threatens her local celebrity status.

if you were a medaled Olympic gymnast forced to move back to your small hometown in Ohio after injuring yourself, you’d probably have a nasty potty mouth, too. Unfortunately, that’s all Melissa Rauch (The Big Bang Theory) really has in the red-band trailer for The Bronze.

The actress plays Hope Greggory, a former Olympic bronze medalist (and Dancing with the Stars competitor) who’s not too happy about living back at home with her dad. The raunchy comedy also features Silicon Valley’s Thomas Middleditch, Captain America: The Winter Soldier’s Sebastian Stan, SNL’s Cecily Strong, and Office Space’s Gary Cole, but even this team-up of comedic talent isn’t enough to pique our interest with the lackluster trailer. In short, if you’re looking for the next gymnastics classic a la Stick It or even that Lifetime original movie where the Pink Power Ranger has an eating disorder, you should look elsewhere.
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Key & Peele Return with a Kitten in First ‘Keanu’ Image; Plus New Look at ‘Deepwater Horizon’
http://collider.com/key-peele-keanu-image/

Peele, who wrote the script for Keanu with his Key & Peele compatriot Alex Rubens, said:

“This entire movie was basically the most expensive adorable-kitten video of all time. Overall it’s meant to satirize how pop culture paints masculinity and what it means to be African-American — and how many of us don’t fit into the mold expected of us.”
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