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When Nature Calls (2021–2022)
4/10
Beautiful video, horrible humor
28 June 2021
Helen Mirren is quite good at narration, until they make her tell a joke, then it falls flat. I'm actually about halfway in, waiting for something to be funny, so far nothing. I thought this had so much potential. They must have some extremely embarrassing or illegal blackmail on Helen, poor lady! #FreeHelen.
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Booksmart (2019)
6/10
If this is Superbad for a new generation, I kinda feel sorry for the new generation!
24 May 2019
Warning: Spoilers
While a funny movie with an interesting premise, I definitely don't think this is of the quality or lasting power of a movie like Superbad, which I find so many comparing it to.

The energy was there, I'll give you that, but it felt a bit forced. That's probably because the chemistry didn't translate well onto the screen. And then there was just too much trying to be forced in I think, and taken to extremes. I mean, two smart girls who all of a sudden think they need to go out and party hard because others they considered stupid or unmotivated made it into good colleges, like that's all that matters? Then a lot of little things, like how the first party they end up at is >completely< void of people beyond the two hosts. Then, even though neither girl is rich, they leave gift bags with iPads behind? Heck, I'd be stuffing a bunch from other bags into mine before I took off!! Then the drugs that they unknowingly took so long before all of a sudden kick in at the same time on both of them, and although they're hit hard by them, they wear off at the exact same time just outside the party they were at. And the scenes with the principal and graduation scene, like where the car arrives. A bit too much, who can drive around town like that, bust through a fence and not have anyone say a word?

Don't get me wrong, I laughed, found it entertaining, but it's never going to live up to classics like Superbad or American Pie. A fun distraction, but not much more...
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1/10
Gotta agree, this movie for the most part sucks...
29 November 2002
Having either liked or loved almost all the Adam Sandler movies I've seen just for their plain silliness, and even loving his other cartoon venture that I've seen (a shockwave movie called "The Peeper" I believe), I hate to have to say it but this movie pretty much sucks. Yes, there are some scattered funny bits, but to put it simply, its a movie for little kids that you would never let little kids see... The humor is much too adult for little kids, the mostly teenagers in the audience I was at hated the corny "message" the movie was trying to portray and even the humor wasn't that funny. Within the first 5 minutes you can figure out exactly what the ending is going to be, and when it comes around, it isn't even entertaining...

If you love Adam Sandler - go see "Punch Drunk Love". Yea, not the normal Sandler movie either, but at least its pretty entertaining...
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