Recently, the gf and I have been in the mood for comedies. Sounds easy, right? Go to netflix, reserve some comedies, and good to go. Well, we tried that. We got The 40-year old Virgin, Wedding Crashers, and Anchorman. All got rave reviews as laugh out loud hilarious. Over the past week or so, we watched them. And were, for the most part, very disappointed.
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Wedding Crashers
We'll start in order of the biggest disappointment. This movie didn't suck completely, there were funny moments, and there were boobies galore. The problem here was that this movie was lazy. They took a great premise for a movie, and sharted out this piece of recycled crap. It was like everyone in the movie was playing characitures of themselves, only without bringing the funny. As I write this, I'm trying to think of one thing that made me laugh. Can't do it.
Anchorman
OK. There were moments of funny in this movie. Not because of Ferrell, who was OK I guess. Not because of the Married with Children whore/daughter, whatever her name is.
N, the humor all came from Steven Carrell, the guy from Saturday night live. Everytime I laughed out loud it was because of him. The rest of it.. Was almost funny. Good premise, great sound track, it just wasn't quite all the way funny.
40-Year Old Virgin
I almost peed myself during this movie. I was laughing so hard that my stomach cramped up and tears were rolling down my face. Why was it so funny? Not sure. Maybe because it's characters were not complete assholes, just broadside shots of people that we all know. And at least the writers of this movie liked their characters.
Steven Carrell was great. Great. I think the last time I laughed this hard was when Spaceballs first came out. I was ten, and in the hospital after a skiing accident. I laughed so hard I popped a staple. ("Man, we ain't found shit." Now that was some funny shit.) Last movie they let me watch at that place.
If you haven't seen this movie yet, I can't recommend it enough. Wait through the first ten minutes or so, which are a little slow. I can't promise that everyone will like this movie, but I can promise that if you do, the scenes at the end might make a top ten funniest scenes list for me.
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Visco, come on now. Vince Vaughn was great in wedding crashers. I think that you didn't like it because:
A.) Owen Wilson's role sucked
B.) You want to be that guy, but you joined the club and a woman now rules your world (as small as it is)
OK Goody, I'll give you that Vince Vaughn had moments. Not enough to carry a whole movie though.
And Owen Wilson? First time I haven't liked him in a movie.
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