Saturday, September 01, 2007

Oh Bob from Bottle Rocket & Chris...

Idiocracy(dir. Mike Judge)
It starts off fine with it's concept, but once it hits about the 40 minute mark, it started to become redundant and became a drag. There's something to be said about a comedy with a future world this fully realized, but as the planet earth in the movie became stupider as time went on so did the movie itself. You realize that all the dumb characters are essentially going to be played in a certain way the whole time so there's not much variation to create interest. The president character that was a former wrestler was pretty ingenius among all the bland idiots. The film is, thankfully, on the short side and I think the ending redeems it slightly for it's overt cheesiness. Judge criticizes idiotic behaivor well, but it became repetitive. I slightly recommend.
**1/2 out of ****
I Think I Love My Wife(dir. Chris Rock)
Dare I say I was really liking it until a show-stopping gag? The gag in question is a gag about an erection. The film has other gags that were juvenile, but that one derailed the movie. It didn't derail it completely, but it was hard to get back on track especially with scenes like the sing song finale. Most of the humor in general seemed pretty unnecessary and the film probably would have benefitted if it was just a relatively serious comedy instead of trying to have to make an attempt at being humorous with juvenile antics. How the conflict is resolved is kind of too pat, but as this is a comedy, it's acceptable. I slightly recommend this uneven movie.
**1/2 out of ****

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