Good to see the studios finally listening to what people want, and making daring, creative, unique movies COMPLETELY UNLIKE anything we've seen before!!!
SIKE!
It's not a perfect world, and unfortunately, movies are stupidly expensive to make, and the investors and decision makers generally play it safe and green-lite whatever script seems the least risky.
It's hard to blame them really. A person's got to sleep at night!
So, sadly, the studios would rather churn out sequels and remakes of anything that made a lot of money in the past. Then paste in the currently hottest stars, and rest easy with a reliable profit projection based on a bunch of data.
It's MATH people! The Hangover + Kate McKinnon + Scarlett Johansson = $
And as an added bonus, top critics will be scared to give it a bad review for fear of being labelled "SEXIST"! How can we loose!!$!$!!
OK, with that little rant out of the way, I guess I'll move on to ranting about how the film lacks a single original idea! It starts out feeling like a carbon copy of "The Hangover." Remember in "The Hangover" when the timeline suddenly jumps to the next day and the hotel room is trashed and the guys embark on a fun, mysterious adventure to piece things together?! Well, something like that was too clever for this movie, so instead it just turns into the movie "Very Bad Things" combined with a bunch of other crap that seems familiar and lazy.
The characters are mostly boring, poorly developed, and worst of all, they all feel somewhat forced. You know that epic swagger and confidence that Scarlett Johansson exhibits in the MARVEL films? None of that here. She seems slightly awkward and uncomfortable in this role, and a little unsure of who her character is supposed to be exactly.
I was about to throw in the towel and admit defeat 10 minutes in, when thankfully Kate McKinnon shows up and quickly seems to be the only excuse I can think of to keep watching.
It's not really that the movie is that bad, it's more just that it's not that good, and not that funny. It's a shame to see a very talented cast, that seems slightly un-inspired by the material and characters they are playing, and the group's chemistry was lacking. I was having a hard time relating to a single character, and I definitely did not believe that they were actually BEST friends with each other.
All that being said, the movie does have some funny moments, and is pretty well made overall. I started skipped ahead a little in the second half because I was getting bored, but that's most likely due partially to my self-diagnosed ADHD! I almost started feeling generous and gave it 5 stars when Kate McKinnon sings her song during the credits, that was pretty hilarious actually. Unfortunately, the script is pretty lazy and a lot of the dialog is bland and UN-inspired.
A Movie like this will NEVER be GREAT! It will never make a TON of money or stand the test of time. But it's also highly unlikely to fail and loose money, so this is what we get. So I guess I'll add one last memo to Hollywood... "TAKE SOME RISKS ONCE IN A WHILE, PLEASE!!!" I know, I know, they are too busy spending that remake cash on strippers and blow to have any chance of noticing this. That and the don't care :) So if this looks like the type of movie you would like, you probably will enjoy it. All others may want to steer clear. The real issue is the over saturation of these types of films coming out of Hollywood. It's a pretty decent, while forgettable comedy, but it's hard not to imagine what other, way cooler movie that this money could have gone towards instead...
SIKE!
It's not a perfect world, and unfortunately, movies are stupidly expensive to make, and the investors and decision makers generally play it safe and green-lite whatever script seems the least risky.
It's hard to blame them really. A person's got to sleep at night!
So, sadly, the studios would rather churn out sequels and remakes of anything that made a lot of money in the past. Then paste in the currently hottest stars, and rest easy with a reliable profit projection based on a bunch of data.
It's MATH people! The Hangover + Kate McKinnon + Scarlett Johansson = $
And as an added bonus, top critics will be scared to give it a bad review for fear of being labelled "SEXIST"! How can we loose!!$!$!!
OK, with that little rant out of the way, I guess I'll move on to ranting about how the film lacks a single original idea! It starts out feeling like a carbon copy of "The Hangover." Remember in "The Hangover" when the timeline suddenly jumps to the next day and the hotel room is trashed and the guys embark on a fun, mysterious adventure to piece things together?! Well, something like that was too clever for this movie, so instead it just turns into the movie "Very Bad Things" combined with a bunch of other crap that seems familiar and lazy.
The characters are mostly boring, poorly developed, and worst of all, they all feel somewhat forced. You know that epic swagger and confidence that Scarlett Johansson exhibits in the MARVEL films? None of that here. She seems slightly awkward and uncomfortable in this role, and a little unsure of who her character is supposed to be exactly.
I was about to throw in the towel and admit defeat 10 minutes in, when thankfully Kate McKinnon shows up and quickly seems to be the only excuse I can think of to keep watching.
It's not really that the movie is that bad, it's more just that it's not that good, and not that funny. It's a shame to see a very talented cast, that seems slightly un-inspired by the material and characters they are playing, and the group's chemistry was lacking. I was having a hard time relating to a single character, and I definitely did not believe that they were actually BEST friends with each other.
All that being said, the movie does have some funny moments, and is pretty well made overall. I started skipped ahead a little in the second half because I was getting bored, but that's most likely due partially to my self-diagnosed ADHD! I almost started feeling generous and gave it 5 stars when Kate McKinnon sings her song during the credits, that was pretty hilarious actually. Unfortunately, the script is pretty lazy and a lot of the dialog is bland and UN-inspired.
A Movie like this will NEVER be GREAT! It will never make a TON of money or stand the test of time. But it's also highly unlikely to fail and loose money, so this is what we get. So I guess I'll add one last memo to Hollywood... "TAKE SOME RISKS ONCE IN A WHILE, PLEASE!!!" I know, I know, they are too busy spending that remake cash on strippers and blow to have any chance of noticing this. That and the don't care :) So if this looks like the type of movie you would like, you probably will enjoy it. All others may want to steer clear. The real issue is the over saturation of these types of films coming out of Hollywood. It's a pretty decent, while forgettable comedy, but it's hard not to imagine what other, way cooler movie that this money could have gone towards instead...