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randall 
"I like to watch."
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 Posted - 10/28/2009 : 19:04:39
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Seth Rogen has made some weird choices lately, but this one takes the cake. He's a mall cop, but he makes Paul Blart look like Charlie Chaplin. See, he's also so bipolar that he's psychotic. This is a mess: way too dark to be funny, but too ridiculous to be a drama. Anna Faris steals a couple of scenes, and they've found another Amy Adams/Isla Fisher up-and-comer who shows promise, but this is strictly for people who think Danny McBride is funny. Blood flows, and so does vomit.
Don't waste your time on this piece of crap. |
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silly 
"That rabbit's DYNAMITE."
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Posted - 10/28/2009 : 21:16:05
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This was hard for me to watch, as I'm close to someone that may be bipolar (no firm diagnosis, but shows many signs) and it's heartbreaking.
I really didn't feel like this movie was supposed to be funny, more like it had funny bits in it. But it was marketed as "a black comedy." The War of the Roses is more my idea of a black comedy, I guess. Woof.  |
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randall
"I like to watch."
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Posted - 10/28/2009 : 21:37:17
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silly, I get it, but despite the "dark-comedy" billing, they play this stuff for cheap yucks. The first sign of dementia is: your doctor doesn't really understand you, so quit taking your meds! So the otherwise-medically-obedient Rogen feeds them to Faris [who requested them] in a clumsy drunken attempt to get her high! And wasn't the intention there to get us to laugh?
I understand your heartbreak: my mom went way down the slippery slope of Alzheimer's over a period of ten years. There are a couple of well-meaning dementia flicks that I can't even watch. This one plays with us. No comedy. No drama. Rubbish. Goodbye. |
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Sean 
"Necrosphenisciform anthropophagist."
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Posted - 10/28/2009 : 23:10:33
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On the whole, Frat Pack and associated comedians (I'll include Seth Rogen there) just don't do it for me. At their best their movies are watchable if I've got nothing better in the queue; at their worst they're garbage.
It looks like you have to be under 18 to enjoy this one, so I'll give it a miss. |
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MguyXXV 
"X marks the spot"
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Posted - 10/29/2009 : 00:00:52
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| This one sucked, and pretty hard, though there were a few things to laugh at from time-to-time (the film has worth to me probably only because of the earnest voice over question "Howth yo dick hangin? Low, I hope"). This film lacked direction and purpose. It clearly was trying to be something, but it failed miserably. |
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silly
"That rabbit's DYNAMITE."
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Posted - 10/29/2009 : 15:08:33
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Originally posted by randXll
silly, I get it, but despite the "dark-comedy" billing, they play this stuff for cheap yucks.
I'm agreeing with you. I wonder if they would have marketed this differently had we not just endured Paul Blart?
Whatever they were trying to do with this movie, it didn't work.  |
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Demisemicenturian
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Posted - 02/17/2010 : 00:29:55
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| I preferred it (3/5) to Paul Blart: Mall Cop (2/5), but it's certainly far from Rogen at his best. |
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