Three friends investigate what happened on their night in Las Vegas for a bachelor party which ended with a missing groom and their collective temporary amnesia.
Unpretentious comedy, ingenious at times but overall a little bland.
I can understand the appeal with the public if I think about how much Transformers 2 entertained the group next to me (and no ... they did not laugh at the ridiculousness and childishness of the film).
It causes moments of genuine bursts of healthy laughter, but kept far apart from each other by certain monotonous and slightly empty periods of time, giving you just enough of a break for your mind to jump to the rest of your shopping list for the day. Truth be told, what else should such a comedy be really, but an opportunity to relax the mind, without having to focus on the endless enigmas of humanity, on the hideous hidden places of the human psyche, or on some complicated plot with a multi thread of tangled action that will make you get out of the movie theater more troubled, grumpy and depressed than when you entered.
The film succeeds in its relaxing task, however it does so differently to other .. examples of the genre (take ... The 40 Old Virgin for example) at the end of which you are left with a smile on your face and a sudden symptom of optimism. Instead, at the end of this one, you leave almost instantly forgetting what you've seen, whatever happened, whatever plot you witnessed, just like after a complete pause of your mind in which you didn't gain anything, in which you simply just .. vegetated. (on a different note - while waiting for the movie to start I watched the trailer for The Proposal - promising, can't wait to see)
Director: Todd Phillips
Cast: Zack Galifianakis, Bradley Cooper, Justin Bartha, Ed Helms, Heather Graham
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Unpretentious comedy, ingenious at times but overall a little bland.
I can understand the appeal with the public if I think about how much Transformers 2 entertained the group next to me (and no ... they did not laugh at the ridiculousness and childishness of the film).
It causes moments of genuine bursts of healthy laughter, but kept far apart from each other by certain monotonous and slightly empty periods of time, giving you just enough of a break for your mind to jump to the rest of your shopping list for the day. Truth be told, what else should such a comedy be really, but an opportunity to relax the mind, without having to focus on the endless enigmas of humanity, on the hideous hidden places of the human psyche, or on some complicated plot with a multi thread of tangled action that will make you get out of the movie theater more troubled, grumpy and depressed than when you entered.
The film succeeds in its relaxing task, however it does so differently to other .. examples of the genre (take ... The 40 Old Virgin for example) at the end of which you are left with a smile on your face and a sudden symptom of optimism. Instead, at the end of this one, you leave almost instantly forgetting what you've seen, whatever happened, whatever plot you witnessed, just like after a complete pause of your mind in which you didn't gain anything, in which you simply just .. vegetated. (on a different note - while waiting for the movie to start I watched the trailer for The Proposal - promising, can't wait to see)
Director: Todd Phillips
Cast: Zack Galifianakis, Bradley Cooper, Justin Bartha, Ed Helms, Heather Graham
This is a translation of an older post, see it here
L-am văzut, nu mai țin minte exact despre ce era vorba, dar știu ca am ras. O comedie bună pe care ți-o recomand, razi de numa numa : Wrong Missy
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