Viewing Paul Feig's overly-praised 2011 comedy, "Bridesmaids," is like watching a series of bad deleted scenes from a better movie. The film is a mediocre and forgettable “Saturday Night Live” sketch that keeps dragging on for more than two hours of your life that you will never get back.
Kristen Wiig plays Annie Walker, an immature, bitter and self-destructive former bakery shop owner who cannot stand to see anyone around her experiencing happiness. Despite the fact that she can barely pay the rent on her crummy apartment that she shares with two weirdo British roommates, Annie commits to being the maid of honor in a wedding that has a budget of at least a million dollars. Everything she ends up touching falls apart and cheeseball antics ensue. Also, there's some lame love story about Annie and a dopey Irish police officer.
Maya Rudolph plays Lillian Donovan, an anus-bleachin’ diarrhea in the middle of the street havin’ Wilson Phillips lovin’ bridezilla who can’t seem to decide which one of her sociopathic friends is her true bestie. She plays the BFF candidates against one another in a series of elaborate wedding-related events until one of them breaks down from sheer exhaustion at the amount of drama that she can bring to bear.
Rose Byrne plays Helen Harris III, a snooty and possessive mean girl maniac who’s hell-bent on edging out her competition for the title of Lillian’s best friend. Throughout the movie, Helen sets up one china shop after another for her adversary, Annie, to bull through while trying to isolate herself as much as possible from the collateral damage.
Melissa McCarthy plays Megan Price, a well-meaning, lovable buffoon who awkwardly blunders her way through one contrived scenario after the next, almost exactly like Chris Farley. Her performance produces a couple of the rare funny moments this movie has to offer.
Oh, and Rebel Wilson plays the most annoying character ever conceived of in the history of mankind: herself.
Join us as we discuss Jim’s binders full of funny women and how the scenes in this film are as long, and as painful, as the gestation of an elephant.
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The 1997 Jim Carrey/Christopher Darden vehicle, "Liar Liar," is about a child who makes a birthday wish, just for one day, that his slimy lawyer dad cannot tell a lie. When the boy's wish is granted by some unspecified demon, his father is stricken with a case of Tourette syndrome which ultimately results in his arrest, the loss of his job and severe bodily harm. Oh yeah, this is a "fun" comedy.
Jim Carrey plays Fletcher Reede, an irredeemably despicable attorney who cheats on his wife, exchanges sexual favors for career advancement and considers spousal abuse to be a laughing matter, but the audience is supposed to think he's a swell guy because he occasionally likes to tickle his son who he lovingly refers to as "Creepy."
Christopher Darden, one of the prosecutors who famously bungled the O.J. Simpson trial, has an uncredited cameo at the beginning of the film where he asks Jim Carrey how his trial went. This is not a joke.
Maura Tierney plays Audrey Reede, a pathetic divorcée who spends most of the movie deciding whether or not to move her child from L.A. to Boston and marry a guy she hates out of nothing more than petty spite for her ex-husband.
Join us as we discuss how this movie rips off "The Twilight Zone" twice, Jim's history with clowns and whether this movie should be rated G or NC-17.
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As Raymond Carver once said, "I hate tricks. At the first sign of a trick or gimmick in a piece of fiction, a cheap trick or even an elaborate trick, I tend to look for cover." Carver would be diving for cover lickety-split upon viewing the 2014 Best Picture winner, "Birdman," with its overabundance of third-rate tricks and pretentious gimmicks, such as including an intentionally bad stage adaptation of one of Carver's short stories, "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love."
The primary trick is that the director, Alejandro González Iñárritu, employs is to give the viewer the impression that they are watching a movie that was filmed in one shot. While this sounds like an interesting approach on paper, it quickly becomes apparent that the choice was done out of a desire to show off rather than to effectively tell the story.
The primary gimmick is that the plot of the movie revolves around an actor who was a major box office star in the early 90s known for playing a famous superhero and they cast Michael Keaton, an actor who was a major box office star in the early 90s known for playing a famous superhero, to play the role. Get it, isn't Iñárritu clever?
Emma Stone plays an angry post-rehab emo chick with daddy issues. Her performance is rife with her trademark overacting and sarcastic attitude.
Edward Norton plays a difficult to work with broadway darling who proclaims that the only time he is truly honest is while he is on stage.
Zach Galifianakis plays the awkward semi-effeminate oddball character that he plays in every other movie.
The film also tries to fool the critics and audience into thinking that it has a deeper meaning by injecting excessive amounts of inside Broadway and Hollywood references.
Join us as we ruffle up our feathers and squawk out our disdain for the pure uncut Oscar bait that is this movie.
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The 2003 Nancy Meyers joint, "Something's Gotta Give," tells the story of a mother falling wildly in love with her daughter's boyfriend after spending a couple days with the guy while he's recovering from a heart attack. It's a tale as old as time, told by an idiot, full of phony crying and boner jokes, signifying nothing.
Diane Keaton plays Erica Jane Barry, a turtleneck wearin' Broadway play writin' 50-something divorcée who somehow manages to lead a billionaire's lifestyle. At first, she pretends that she is leading a highly-fulfilling and independent life, but she quickly falls to pieces as soon as a man she gets a crush on appears. Don't worry, though, because she ends up writing a hit play about her heartbreak, so it's all worth it or something.
Jack Nicholson plays Harry Sanborn, a Viagra poppin' rap label ownin' 60-something multi-millionaire playboy who spends most of his time seeking out casual sex with beautiful women half his age until he has a heart attack and sees the error of his ways. After that, he has a brief fling with a woman who is age-appropriate, spends six months apologizing to hundreds of past lovers for no reason and chases after his one true love in Paris.
Keanu Reeves plays Dr. Julian Mercer, a flawless 30-something Broadway lovin' emergency medicine practicin' doctor who falls deeply in love with Diane Keaton's character immediately upon meeting her despite their almost 20-year age gap. That's right, they cast Bill from "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure" as an intellectual physician. His distractingly-bad performance inadvertently provides the only effective comic relief in the movie.
Join us as we discuss the problems we have with Nancy Meyers movies as well as Keating's mom's thorough analysis the film.
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In 1986, Rob Reiner ("Meathead" from "All in the Family") attempted to adapt a Stephen King novella called "The Body" into a Rated R kids movie. The resulting film, "Stand by Me," is an 88-minute cry-fest about four adolescent buddies who walk about 30 miles to find the body of a kid who got hit by a train in hopes of getting their names in the local newspaper.
Wil Wheaton plays young Gordie Lachance, a scrawny aspiring fiction writer (a surrogate for Stephen King) who finds himself unable to process the death of his posthumously glorified older brother, Denny, played by John Cusack. In the span of two days, Gordie narrowly outruns a junkyard dog, barely dodges an oncoming train and shoots a gun multiple times.
River Phoenix plays Chris Chambers, a too cool for school James Dean emulator who comes from a dysfunctional family and finds himself unable to get out from under their shadow. Chris is a walking, talking advertisement for smoking cigarettes throughout the movie.
Corey Feldman plays Teddy Duchamp, a mentally unstable semi-suicidal maniac with deformed ear. Allegedly, the character Feldman plays is not far off from his real life persona.
Jerry O'Connell Romijn-Stamos plays Vern Tessio, a simple-minded heavyset caricature whose personality resembles "Chunk" from "The Goonies."
Join us as we dismember this saccharine film as well as Jim's derivative childhood.
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