Tag: comedy
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Unfrosted
3 outta 5 Unfrosted is a pretty funny movie if one can tolerate juvenile absurdity permeating the entire experience. This isn’t exactly a hard-hitting parody or even close to approaching a “real life” story. In the late seasons of Seinfeld, things took a bit of a turn into the more absurdist and that continues here…
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Ricky Stanicky
3 outta 5 Director Peter Farrelly was originally a directing duo with his brother Bobby for movies like Dumb and Dumber and There’s Something About Mary, and then Peter directed the Best Picture winning Green Book. And while they have directed separately, its not as if Peter Farrelly has become some sort of respected prestige…
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Drive-Away Dolls
4 outta 5 Drive-Away Dolls is a crazy road-trip movie featuring crime, severed heads, lots of cameos, lots of quips and lots of sex for its incredibly zippy hour and twenty-four minutes. Directed and co-written by Ethan Cohen (his first film without his brother Joel) it has the bizarre absurdist energy, dialogue patter, dopey crime…
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Role Play
2 outta 5 Role Play is a film that seems like it should be funnier than the premise/title/trailer leads one to believe. Even the tagline, Every Couple Has Their Secrets and the premise seem like a lower budget version of True Lies which handles the action and comedy much more deftly. There are still funny…
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Next Goal Wins
4 outta 5 Next Goal Wins is funny, absurd, quippy and, in places, unexpectedly heartfelt. It comes in a well-worn sports movie framework as a terrible team gets a new coach and becomes less terrible so it doesn’t exactly redfine the genre. But it is solid, and the cast of eccentric characters keep things lively,…
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Totally Killer
4 outta 5 Totally Killer is definitely a unique film, considering there aren’t a huge amount of slasher/ comedy/ horror time/ travel movies. The influence of Back to the Future is readily apparent because the main character keeps mentioning it, along with slasher standards like Scream and Halloween. The winning performance by the lead makes…
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