Natalie (Rebel Wilson) is a cynical soul.Granted, it's hard not to be cynical in 2019, I mean, have you seen how little people in power care about taking the most basic steps to help our planet? But she's especially cynical, particularly in regards to the tropes you'd find in romantic-comedies and also her own self-value. Her life gets thrown for a loop when she bonks her head in the subway during an attempted mugging and ends up stuck in a world adhering to the rules of a romantic-comedy. This means everything is colorful, no F-bomb's can be dropped and every guy in sight, including hunky billionaire Blake (Liam Hemsworth), is in love with her. Natalie soon deduces that the only way she can hope to get back home is through following all the romantic-comedy rules to a tee.
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Showing posts with label Adam Devine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Adam Devine. Show all posts
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Friday, March 30, 2018
Relying Solely On One-Note Gags Being Run Into The Ground Is A Bad Move For Game Over Man!
Workaholics is a television program that ran for seven seasons on Comedy Central, with it's run garnering high levels of critical acclaim. A large number of my friends adore the show and especially enjoyed the performances from the three lead actors on it. Having not seen the program myself, I can not offer my own two cents on Workaholics, I can only say that everyone I've spoken to that has seen it loves the show and its trio of leads. I bring up the positive reception garnered by Workaholics among my friends and colleagues because the new movie, entitled Game Over, Man!, it's three lead actors have starred in and wrote is absolutely awful and I always feel gross just writing wall-to-wall negativity. Making movies is a hard process, as is the process of landing any kind of acting work, so some notes of positive reception towards other pieces of art stemming from the people behind Game Over, Man! feels in order.
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Wednesday, July 20, 2016
Mike And Dave Need Wedding Dates Review
Sex-based humor can be funny. Swear words can be funny. Plenty of films have made both of those elements hilarious. But context, timing and grounding such things in engaging characters are just a few of the crucial elements that can differentiate a "funny" joke from a painfully unfunny one. For Mike And Dave Need Wedding Dates, there's surprisingly little to be found in the gross-out gags beyond just the gross-out content. This is the sort of movie that thinks the very sight of a vagina is inherently uproarious stuff, just to give you more context into what kind of humor this movie traffics in.
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