Just a couple quickies today.
The story: a sort-of continuation of FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL. A chump of a music executive employee has to get a drunken, washed out rock star to a gig.
Was it good?
Sort of. This is a movie that kind of has all the pieces -- a (kind of) likable leading guy with a positive goal he wants to accomplish, a (sort of) funny outrageous second character, some other wacky people, lots of sex jokes and some boobs. The problem is that I spent most of the time watching it thinking this should be funny, but not actually laughing. I know that's a vague way to talk about the movie, but this felt like something where everything was set up right and everything was in place...but nothing was actually funny. If anything, it felt like almost all the characters were pushing too hard to make it funny. Comedy is a tricky thing and what works for one person will fall flat for another. This fell flat for me. It just didn't have that bit of charm and sweetness and sillyness and brightness that FSM had. Still, there was enough here that I would tell people who are interested to rent it. Just don't expect it to be as good as FSM.
*** RENTAL (I guess) ****
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