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Grumpy Comedy Reviews – Wild Hogs

December 22, 2009 / Grumpy Comedy Reviews

What is there to say, really? Wild Hogs is a terrible, homophobic, piece of shit movie. The fact that it racked up millions at the box office should be proof enough we deserve complete economic and social collapse. The sooner we’re spending every waking minute protecting our women and rations from marauding mutants, the sooner we’re not spending our money and time on cinematic feces starring a washed-up Scientologist who squandered his own comeback, a guy who went from starring [...]

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Grump Comedy Reviews – The Foot Fist Way

July 13, 2009 / Grumpy Comedy Reviews

The Foot Fist Way stars Danny McBride as a sleepy-eyed narcissist who owns a McDojo where he abuses kids and hits on cute blondes. He’s rude, clueless and generally unlikeable. The guy is so self-involved he doesn’t realize his wife is a cheating whore or that his vocation is bullshit. You can only chop so much plywood before someone who actually knows how to fight kicks your ass.

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Grumpy Comedy Reviews – The Hangover

June 23, 2009 / Grumpy Comedy Reviews

The Hangover, besides hilarious, is also a really well-made flick full of interesting editing choices, novel camera movement, perfect soundtrack selection, and a clever narrative you wouldn’t expect to find in a movie about four dopey guys and their colossal hangover.

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Grumpy Comedy Review – The Goode Family

June 1, 2009 / Grumpy Comedy Reviews

Mike Judge’s latest animated effort, The Goode Family, can’t escape comparisons to its animated family sitcom contemporaries (there are approximately one million of them now) and I’m not sure we need another one. Especially one that seems this outdated.

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Grumpy Comedy Review – Observe And Report

April 20, 2009 / Grumpy Comedy Reviews

Seth Rogen appears in his four hundredth movie of the year as a screaming, swearing, disturbing oaf of a mall cop – yeah, our second mall cop movie in as many months. Observe and Report tries so hard to wow with its edgy weirdness – it comes off as stupid and desperate. Meanwhile, in its mission to shock and awe it forgot THE FUCKING JOKES.

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Grumpy Comedy Review – Bachelor Party

April 1, 2009 / Grumpy Comedy Reviews

If the movie was just Tom Hanks and his babe running through neon alleyways as he chases her with an egg beater (which he does in one scene) then this would be a terrific, cute little comedic gem about love or whatever. Too bad it’s really a shitty Animal House rip-off. Yeah, the title should have been the first clue.

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Grumpy Comedy Reviews – Black Knight

March 10, 2009 / Grumpy Comedy Reviews

Black Knight opens with Martin Lawrence torturing himself in the bathroom and making weird noises. Apparently, this is his morning routine. It’s a decent way to start the movie – if only to believe Martin Lawrence really does this and is a sad, weird man who exists in a world of self-afflicted pain.

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Grumpy Comedy Review – He's Just Not That Into You

February 27, 2009 / Grumpy Comedy Reviews

He’s Just Not That Into You opens with the New Line logo. Wait, NEW LINE? I thought New Line was dead because they keep making shit like He’s Just Not That Into You – a romantic comedy similar to others in the genre in that it forgets the comedy. And the romance.

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Grumpy Comedy Review – Pink Panther 2

February 18, 2009 / Grumpy Comedy Reviews

Yeah, I saw it. Not a whole lot to talk about, really. It’s so void of humor, charm, emotion – anything. It’s a black hole of cinema, sucking away the nebulous talent and respect of all those I mentioned above. The best thing about it is the Henry Mancini theme song and the 2D animated intro.

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Grumpy Comedy Review – Role Models

February 11, 2009 / Grumpy Comedy Reviews

Role Models looks like another stale Judd Apatow/Will Ferrell thing, and WELL it kinda is but I still managed to enjoy it – thanks to decent writing and direction by Stella/SuperJail! superstar David Wain, some foul-mouthed kids, and a whole lot of Live-Action-Role-Playing (LARPing).

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Grumpy Comedy Review – Paul Blart: Mall Cop

February 4, 2009 / Grumpy Comedy Reviews

I get it, America. Paul Blart is a well-meaning, schlub of an oaf, and you want to see him succeed. He’s Homer Simpson. He’s John Candy. He’s … YOU! In a certain light he’s not all that different from Mickey Rourke in The Wrestler – a New Jersey scab who just wants things to be better. But you gotta be high to buy a Paul Blart ticket instead of The Wrestler.

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Grumpy Comedy Reviews – Ghost Town

January 26, 2009 / Grumpy Comedy Reviews

I thought Tropic Thunder was last year’s only decent high-concept comedy but I forgot all about Ricky Gervais’ leading man debut in Ghost Town. And If there’s ever a reason to see a movie about ghosts annoying a “jerk dentist” it’s Ricky Gervais… who plays the jerk dentist.

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