Rough Night (2017)
“This is going to be the biggest weekend of our lives.” The conceit is simple: remove the dark parody of 1998’s macabre Very Bad Things but maintain a similar plot, then […]
Category Archives: Comedy
Lemon (2017)
“I booked a thing.” Some movies intentionally take us off the beaten path to ill-effect, giving us a bumpy ride without anything meaningful to really latch onto. Take the filmographies […]
The Hero (2017)
“Movies are other people’s dreams.” Whether it be male or female (but definitely more unusual for women), roles for actors well past the twilight of their youth come too few […]
Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie (2017)
“Is it okay that I’m kind of loving this?” If you were to trade out the deviant bromance of Superbad for childish potty humor and sprinkle in a dose of Ferris Bueller’s Day […]
The Lobster (2016)
“Have you ever been on your own before?” It’s a bit hilarious to imagine what it’d have been like to be a fly on the wall during The Lobster’s big pitch to […]
Baywatch (2017)
“Stuck junk is stuck junk.” You probably shouldn’t see this movie if you’re easily turned off by a bounty of cleavage or an onslaught of penis jokes; the film’s focus on […]
Snatched (2017)
“You don’t have any direction in life.” It is not lost on me that there have been quite a few comedies I’ve loathed that some readers still managed to enjoy, or […]
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)
“It’s too adorable to kill.” As a fan of the original, as well as a firm believer that it’s just a wee bit overrated, I must say that Guardians of the […]
Colossal (2017)
“Would you like something to drink?” Addiction is a beast that constantly lurches around the corners of the mind, purposefully short-circuiting the mainframe and malfunctioning unless it gets its way, similar […]
Going in Style (2017)
“A shootout never has a happy ending.” Blake Snyder’s popular book Save the Cat should be administered like a vaccine to every film student and to all movie geeks. It’s a 15 […]
