Comedy Rated R
This is a big-screen version of the “Saturday Night Live” sketch starring Tim Meadows. Really, what else do you need to know?
“…conjures up the surreal adolescent daydreams of stuffy high-school classrooms. You might as well be watching the doodling in some kid’s otherwise unused notebook come to life.
Comedy Rated PG-13
Watching Eric Christian Olsen and Derek Richardson mimic original stars Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels in this extraneous prequel is akin to movie karaoke. It’s entertaining, inasmuch as it’s entertaining to listen to some hack in a bar butcher Frank Sinatra. Actually, considering the first film was one of the slighter comedies from Peter and
This disappointing disaster spins endless jokes out of the assumptions that Wasps are stiff and uptight and blacks are loud and loose. Steve Martin plays Peter Sanderson, a Beverly Hills lawyer who gets mixed up with an ex-con named Charlene (Queen Latifah). The movie intends to unite black and white audiences, and it probably does
If Saturday Night Live ever did a theme show, it might look something like this Jim Carrey comedy, which is less a movie than a thinly connected series of sketches all riffing on corporate scandals and the resulting unemployment. There is some clever social satire here, but only in fits and starts, and never toward
This airheaded cheerleader movie tries to be Clueless, director Amy Heckerling’s wise and witty high school spoof, but it ultimately comes off as lower-case clueless, especially whenever the dialogue tries to mimic “hip” teen talk (“Missy’s the pooh,” captain Kirsten Dunst admiringly says about one of her teammates. “Take a big whiff.”) Eventually, the movie
Jenny McCarthy is far more desperate than she needs to be in Dirty Love, her self-penned paean to the dating travails of young Los Angeles babes. She’s so busy trying to prove she doesn’t take herself seriously that she undersells what is actually some serious comedic talent. Pushing her snorting, belching Cameron Diaz-type guys’ gal
Another My Big Fat Greek Wedding knockoff, this offers a few slight twists: its setting is an immigrant Italian community in Canada and its star-crossed lovers are gay. Other than that, this is as broad, farcical and blandly stereotypical as its predecessor. The movie’s vision of Italian life isn’t that far away from that of
This remake of a 1936 Frank Capra picture turns out to be the perfect vehicle for abrasive funnyman Adam Sandler, a common man’s comedian who fits quite nicely in a farce celebrating common wisdom. After the death of his media-baron uncle, small-town boy Longfellow Deeds (Sandler) reaps a $40 billion inheritance and is swept into
You need a perfectly timed double take to work with Will Ferrell – most of your job is reacting to the bizarre non sequiturs that fly from his mouth – and Jon Heder (Napoleon Dynamite) thankfully possesses a formidable one. (His mouth seems permanently curled in an expression of repulsed confusion.) Here he and Ferrell
