Posts Tagged “comedy”
by Matt | 06.05.11 | Film Reviews
Knowing what I know now about The Hangover 2, had some guy with an eye-patch and a pix-axe invited me down a dark alley prior to the screening, I’d probably have acquiesced.
Playing ‘squeal like a pig’ for a couple of hours with Mr One-Eye would have been more enjoyable than what followed. More »
Tags: Bradley Cooper, comedy, The Hangover 2, Todd Phillips
by Matt | 10.09.10 | Film Reviews
At a running time of 150 minutes, The Bounty Hunter is precisely 150 minutes too long. The movie is an empty vessel, a ghost ship on a one-way voyage to the seabed, a coffee cup made out of bread. Creatively, it’s doomed from the get-go. More »
Tags: comedy, Gerard Butler, Jennifer Aniston, romantic comedy, The Bounty Hunter
by Matt | 10.07.10 | Film Reviews
What do you get if you cross a group of the funniest film comedians with a script more vacant than a flea infested motel? You get Grown Ups.
With a cast including Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, Dave Spade and Rob Schneider, you’d be forgiven for expecting at least a few laughs. More »
Tags: Adam Sandler, comedy, Grown Ups
by Matt | 10.02.10 | Film Reviews
I’ve come to the conclusion that any movie sporting the name, Gerard Butler, should be accompanied by a health warning.
This realisation hit me harder than a freight train the other night when I watched The Ugly Truth. I’ll tell you right from the get go, it’s one of the worst movies I’ve seen this side of the English Civil War. More »
Tags: comedy, Gerard Butler, Katherine Heigl, romantic comedy, The Ugly Truth
by Matt | 08.31.10 | Film Reviews
Extract, the latest film from Beavis and Butt-Head cohort, Mike Judge, is like a doughnut without the jam.
It’s good, but not good enough.
That’s not to say Extract is a bad movie. Only for a film with such a strong comedic pedigree, it’s a bit light on the laughs. More »
Tags: comedy, Extract, Jason Bateman, Mike Judge