Nancy (Lake Bell), is done with dating. 10 times bitten, 100 times shy, she’s exhausted by the circus. So when Jack (Simon Pegg) blindly mistakes her for his date, no one is more surprised than her when she does the unthinkable and just —- goes with it. It’s going to take a night of pretending to be someone else for Nancy to finally Man Up and be her painfully honest, awesomely unconventional self… but will Jack also Man Up, and be able to get over her duplicity? Best just to let the evening unfold, roll with the consequences, and see if one crazy, unpredictable, complicated night can bring these two messy souls together.
Why You Should Binge-Watch Simon Pegg And Edgar Wright’s ‘Spaced’ Immediately
http://uproxx.com/tv/2015/04/spaced-simon-pegg-edgar-wright/
Ummm... okay, but this should have been done years ago already.
Bell and Pegg exhibit a fizzy and immediate chemistry that holds consistently throughout the film, a tall order considering how many different permutations their relationship goes through over the course of just one evening. Pegg has repeatedly tried his hand at funny love stories in the past, but he’s never been as gamely cast as a romantic lead as he is here. Although both Nancy and Jack have issues to spare, they are wholly recognizable in their apparent oddness. They’re actual characters – not caricatures – that will likely remind the audience of their cool friend so-and-so or the fun guy at work, not some larger-than-life wacko who is kitted out with quirks and oddities for the sake of making a film more amusing or off-kilter. They’re people well deserving of love, just like “Man Up.” [A-]
Basically running with the same premise as "Bruce Almighty," the story follows a disillusioned schoolteacher who finds himself imbued with the power to make anything happen, thanks to some aliens who watch everything unfold from space. And so the hapless man does everything from making his dog talk to making his dog's poop pick itself up, all while giving himself a bigger penis.
“Before Star Wars, the films that were box-office hits were The Godfather, Taxi Driver, Bonnie And Clyde and The French Connection – gritty, amoral art movies.
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“Now we’re walking out of the cinema really not thinking about anything, other than the fact that the Hulk just had a fight with a robot.”
Pegg, who will appear in the new science fiction comedy Absolutely Anything, professes he’d like to hang up the geek hat and try for more dramatic roles:
“Sometimes (I) feel like I miss grown-up things,” he said. “And I honestly thought the other day that I’m gonna retire from geekdom.
“I’ve become the poster child for that generation, and it’s not necessarily something I particularly want to be. I’d quite like to go off and do some serious acting.”
Basically running with the same premise as "Bruce Almighty,"
arriving on Blu-ray on July 7 from Magnolia Entertainment under the Magnet Label.
Why don't I see it on Netflix?