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PIXELS System Crash

July 26, 2015 By Leave a Comment

PIXELS System Crash

If I had to single one thing out as being the saddest moment in PIXELS, it would have to be when Michelle Monaghan, as a newly dumped wife is forced to find solace from Adam Sandler as she is weeping and drinking chardonnay from a sippy cup on the floor of her closet.

Tagged With: Adam Sandler, alien invasion, arcade games, Centipede, Chris Columbus, comedy, Donkey Kong, narrative, Pac-Man, Patrick Jean, rip-off, special effects

PAUL BLART — MALL COP

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Kevin James, star and co-writer of PAUL BLART: MALL COP should know how to play to his comedic strengths when penning a role for himself. He and writing partner, Nick Bakay, an alum of James’ sitcom, “The King of Queens”, however, aren’t so great at fabricating a long-form script around which to build on James’… Read More »

GROWN UPS

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

GROWN UPS

The pain of watching a shlocky film is trivial compared to the torture of sitting through a shlocky film that has convinced itself that it has a message beyond being awful. The latter is the experience of GROWN UPS, a dismal interlude that in the first 10 minutes establishes that men are idiots, women are… Read More »

Tagged With: Adam Sandler, bad comedy, dreck, egregious product placement, Razzie-worthy

DILEMMA, THE

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Director Ron Howard’s stated purpose in making THE DILEMMA was to make a comedy after taking a hiatus from the genre. He has yet to achieve his goal. There are more laughs in SCHINDLER’S LIST. Rather than creating a smart comedy of manners and morals involving adultery coming between best friends, Howard has instead taken… Read More »

ZOOKEEPER

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

The annoying thing about ZOOKEEPER isn’t that it’s a bad movie, though it is, and a very bad one at that. The annoying thing is that Kevin James in the title role is so very good. It sets up a damnably uncomfortable tug-of-war between hating the flick and yet enjoying the work that James does… Read More »

GROWN UPS 2

October 21, 2014 By 1 Comment

A question that I like to ask of comedians who veer towards the edgy is if there is anything off limits when it comes to comedy. I have gotten many great answers over the years, but the one that was the most succinct came from Orlando Jones. “Not funny, that’s off limits”. There may be… Read More »

HITCH

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

HITCH is a pleasant enough meringue of a romantic comedy. Light, sweet, and essentially insubstantial. What it has going for it is its attitude, one that champions true love over a roll in the hay, some nice physical comedy by Kevin James, and Will Smith, a leading man in the old school mold. He’s Alex… Read More »

BARNYARD

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

You can generally tell within 20 minutes or so if a film is going to fly or not. Very few films recover from a disastrous first 20 minutes, and there are even fewer that go from bad to worse to engendering in its audience an active and vitriolic hatred. Such a film is BARNYARD, that… Read More »

I NOW PRONOUNCE YOU CHUCK AND LARRY

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

I NOW PRONOUNCE YOU CHUCK AND LARRY

I NOW PRONOUNCE YOU CHUCK AND LARRY is another self-indulgent, unfunny wallow in what Adam Sandler thinks is funny. From the first fart joke (10 minutes in) to the second fart joke (11 minutes in), to the self-congratulatory deus ex machina ending that is supposed to redeem the previous excruciating two hours, it is a… Read More »

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