Deck the Halls(dir. John Whitesell)
It was awful. Awfully good. I usually find unintentional comedy funnier than intentional comedy, but since it's goal isn't to make me laugh in at least the way I do, it's hard to really give a glowing recommendation for any movie with that sort of humor unless the movie is called Rush Hour 3, which almost appears to be intentional because it seemed like nobody really gave a shit. This movie almost approaches that level of ungraceful grace, but some people were actually not inept in terms of acting in this so it's hard to really look at it as a resounding failure-success. Matthew Broderick almost makes up for the lack of inept acting with his abomination of a performance. Thankfully, his performance isn't as overly cringe-inducing as John Travolta's in Wild Hogs, which was almost unbearably embarrassing, and the bizarre overabundance of repetitive line readings found in this film only helped to underline it's badness. It's almost the equivalent of taking a bad music cue and pressing rewind and playing it again. The awesome badness of the repetitive shitty line readings reaches it's apex with his character unknowingly ogles his daughter with Danny DeVito's character and constantly repeating, "Who's your daddy?!" Maeby is going to need some serious therapy down the road because of that. It's incestuous undertones are disturbing, but it was oddly funny because of Broderick's horrendous line readings. He might as well have repeated, "Yes, I'm a shitty actor!" It's strange to say a bad performance makes a movie, but his definitely makes this one worth watching along with the film's cheesy ending with the neighborhood trying to help DeVito's character with his quest to make his house visible from space by turning on their cell phones and waving them around to the sounds of some Christmas song. The ending wears out it's welcome, but it's hard not to say that it's probably one of the most lamest and hilarious things I've ever seen. I've changed my mind about slightly recommending it. I fully recommend this train wreck of a movie.
*** out of ****
Shrek the Halls(dir. Gary Trousdale)[TV]
Like I said above, I usually find unintentional comedy funnier than intentional comedy probably due to the fact that when a joke doesn't go off well, it's almost painful. A lot of the returning characters like the gingerbread man and Pinocchio are obnoxious and the humor has grown repetitive and stale. It's Christmasness, however, saves it from totally falling flat on it's face. It's pretty entertaining to see that this film has essentially the same message as the one above and presents it in almost the same exact manner. I slightly recommend.
**1/2 out of ****
It was awful. Awfully good. I usually find unintentional comedy funnier than intentional comedy, but since it's goal isn't to make me laugh in at least the way I do, it's hard to really give a glowing recommendation for any movie with that sort of humor unless the movie is called Rush Hour 3, which almost appears to be intentional because it seemed like nobody really gave a shit. This movie almost approaches that level of ungraceful grace, but some people were actually not inept in terms of acting in this so it's hard to really look at it as a resounding failure-success. Matthew Broderick almost makes up for the lack of inept acting with his abomination of a performance. Thankfully, his performance isn't as overly cringe-inducing as John Travolta's in Wild Hogs, which was almost unbearably embarrassing, and the bizarre overabundance of repetitive line readings found in this film only helped to underline it's badness. It's almost the equivalent of taking a bad music cue and pressing rewind and playing it again. The awesome badness of the repetitive shitty line readings reaches it's apex with his character unknowingly ogles his daughter with Danny DeVito's character and constantly repeating, "Who's your daddy?!" Maeby is going to need some serious therapy down the road because of that. It's incestuous undertones are disturbing, but it was oddly funny because of Broderick's horrendous line readings. He might as well have repeated, "Yes, I'm a shitty actor!" It's strange to say a bad performance makes a movie, but his definitely makes this one worth watching along with the film's cheesy ending with the neighborhood trying to help DeVito's character with his quest to make his house visible from space by turning on their cell phones and waving them around to the sounds of some Christmas song. The ending wears out it's welcome, but it's hard not to say that it's probably one of the most lamest and hilarious things I've ever seen. I've changed my mind about slightly recommending it. I fully recommend this train wreck of a movie.
*** out of ****
Shrek the Halls(dir. Gary Trousdale)[TV]
Like I said above, I usually find unintentional comedy funnier than intentional comedy probably due to the fact that when a joke doesn't go off well, it's almost painful. A lot of the returning characters like the gingerbread man and Pinocchio are obnoxious and the humor has grown repetitive and stale. It's Christmasness, however, saves it from totally falling flat on it's face. It's pretty entertaining to see that this film has essentially the same message as the one above and presents it in almost the same exact manner. I slightly recommend.
**1/2 out of ****
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