Comedy Rated R
“There are a lot of illegal drugs in Get Him to the Greek, and the movie itself sort of works like one.
Catharsis for a cubicle nation. Writer-director Mike Judge (MTV’s “Beavis and Butt-Head”) comically chronicles the banal details, petty frustrations and overall soul-crushing inanity of working for and with morons in a meaningless corporate job. In other words, he’s captured the existence of millions of Americans. By deflating the misplaced sense of self-importance that often comes
Even after getting Office Space out of his system, writer-director Mike Judge still had enough bitterness toward humanity to make this failed but fascinating comic epic. Set hundreds of years in the future, Idiocracy envisions an America full of drooling idiots thanks to centuries of television, celebrity worship, consumerism and junk food. (The top show,
"…missing the angry comic energy of Judge’s previous efforts."
Paul Rudd is the reason to see this raunchy, fairly smart dumb comedy from writer-director David Wain (Wet Hot American Summer, The Ten). He plays a misanthropic energy-drink salesman so hilariously bitter about the state of the world – and his pathetic place in it – he turns self-hatred into a sardonic art form. After
“Cohen holds up another mirror to American society, and if anything we’ve only gotten uglier since Borat. Or maybe we’re just uglier when it comes to homosexuality.
Comedy Rated PG-13
Can we finally identify Woody Allen’s insistence on reusing the older man/younger woman storyline as pathological? It’s central once again in Whatever Works. The decision isn’t maddening because of its offensiveness or lack of creativity (though both gall), but in this case because it squanders a golden acting opportunity for Larry David. David plays Boris
Comedy Rated PG
If Mel Brooks has a masterpiece, it’s this homage to the Universal horror movies of the 1930s and ’40s. Victor Frankenstein’s grandson Frederick (Gene Wilder, whose hairdo suggests he’s already been struck by lightning many times before) picks up where the infamous mad scientist left off, resulting in a towering, tap-dancing monster (Peter Boyle). Fans
At once dated and timeless. The fabulous 1970s fashions don’t hold up too well, but what still resonates is the movie’s empathetic attention to what it’s like if your sexual identity doesn’t neatly fit into traditional norms. Renato (Ugo Tognazzi) and Albin (Michel Serrault) have been a committed gay couple for more than three decades
“What a pleasure to see a couple who genuinely love each other in a movie – and what a surprise to see them in a movie directed by Sam Mendes.