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I went to see Paranormal Activity tonight after a lot of hype about the movie.  And when I refer to hype I never mean tv spots or trailers or ads.  There is little that pisses me off more than stupid fucks who quote commercials like they are fact.

Person A: “Did you hear about that new movie coming out on Friday?”

Person B: “Oh yeah, it’s supposed to be the scariest movie ever!”

Person A: “I heard this one guy puked in the aisle while watching it!”

Person B: “I heard the same thing.”

Person Junk: “That’s what I heard too, on the fucking commercial.

Cut to: Commence death bludgeoning with victims own legs.

Most of the hype I have heard is word of mouth, which is one of the best advertising you can have to be honest.  I have friends telling me they couldn’t sleep for a week, some saying they were so scared in their own homes.  This is a pretty elevated sense of criticism in my opinion.   If a movie will cease your normal sleeping pattern because you are too afraid to close your eyes, you might have something.  However, how many times has this happened in the past?

More scary movies scare you for the time from the 2nd act’s beginning to the cusp of the credits, leaving you walking out of the theater saying, “That was fun!”  Or, if you’re like me, “Rob Zombie (not counting the first two films) should not be allowed to make anything anymore and should hang out with Uwe Boll is director’s hell.”   Some, and this is a very small percentage, movies give you a dreaded feeling of fear after you turn off the TV and head to bed.  I was like this the first time I watched Exorcist and the original Ring (about a year before it was remade).  Just gives you the shivers.

This movie, Paranormal, is just that… or rather, it COULD HAVE BEEN. I had the unfortunate event of seeing this movie with a packed theater of cinema-R-tards.  Packed into every other seat was a Jr High School girl, her date, or some fwap that I wanted to stick a stop sign post down their throat.

Allow me to take a second here and explain my hatred before continuing my rant on this film.   Here are some simple rules to abide by while in a theater:

DO NOT talk during the movie.  DO NOT open your cellphone to check your text messages.  DO NOT ask someone who came in 30 minutes early to make sure they got good seats to move because your lazy ass wanted to stop and get dinner and brought your entire imbred family and just HAVE TO sit together for some reason.  And this doesn’t make sense.  Why do you have to sit together?  See rule number 1.  Once that rule is read and understood, I don’t see the reason why you need to sit next to all your friends and family.  You won’t be discussing it until after the movie anyway.  DO NOT scream like a fucking twat every time something little happens on screen.  If someone grabs your ankles under your chair and starts to eat you alive, then, you have my permission, scream.  If a shadow moves across a door, DO NOT fucking scream.  Oh, yeah, and NO FUCKING TALKING OR TEXTING on your goddamn phones.

Sorry, just had to get it out.

Ok, I had the displeasure of seeing this movie in the theater and this is why I honestly think I hated the movie so much.  It wasn’t the movie itself, it was the gaggle of idiots that were breeding in the seats around me and whispering and talking and screaming.  Let this be known, had I had a baseball bat, I would be writing this from a different location tonight.  the movie itself drags like a handsome man in women’s clothing.   When stuff does happen it is ok, it builds, it’s well done and simplistic as hell (which is ten times better than CGI bullshit).  But its the reaction from the crowd that will kill your enjoyment or fear-getting of this film.

Please, do yourself the favor and don’t waste your time or money seeing this movie in the theater.  You will walk out hating it and everyone around you.  Heaven help you if you carry a bat in your car.  Wait til it’s on DVD, watch it at night in your house, alone of with someone close, and it might not be bad.  My only real complaint is the film has one punchline and one go at it.  It tells the punchline and it’s done.  There is absolutely no rewatchability for this flick.   So don’t pop your load in the theater and waste the good effect it could give you.

And if you, reading this now, are one of the jag offs who screamed and talked during the movie tonight in my theater, I am reading your IP address now and will be over shortly with a nail gun.

There isn’t much more I can say about this film other than, “WOW!”

David Yates did it perfect. True, fans will be griping about missing scenes and even some scenes that weren’t in the books being in the film, but holf living Horcruxes. It was fucking fantastic. Where 4 and 5 lacked character and excelled in action, 6 (the Half Blood Prince) more than makes up for. This isn’t to say Half-Blood doesn’t have it’s fair share of wicked action… The tense scenes were tense, the action scenes popped out from the screen, and the romantic scenes swelled perfectly.

There was never a time that I wanted more of anything, nor was there a time I thought there was too much of any element, it was divinely edited with pacing, story structure and character development crafted above all.

As I have written before, it it NOT the action scenes that drive us as an audience to care for a character, it is the development scenes, and Yates exploded with talent of the growing story and character arches in the Harry Potter story line.

I absolutely loved it and will happily be returning to a theater to see it again.

Holy living shit!

ARGH!

How many other people sat through this dreck? Let me take the bigger position here and stand up and say, I’m sorry.

This “re-imagining” is nothing more than trivial tripe. The movie is almost a fan-film that fucking fails so phenomenally that fans and freaks alike forbid fornicating during the film. Wow, ok, that’s enough of the “trying to write something decent.” This movie was so fucking bad it was hilarious!

However, not in the fun fun hilarious way we watch all the other slasher films. We watch them for ONE reason and ONE reason only. We want to see new and interesting deaths, kids who get ripped apart and comedically torn up. We want to see Jason, Michael, or Freddy track down, hunting them like vermin, and gutting them so violently that we no longer are squicked, but rather anticipate the new murder like Christmas morning, wondering what will be brought to us. This movie has some of the most boring kills of the entire Friday the 13th series, let along any slash series I can pull off my shelf. They are just fucking dull.

OH! Slashed throat.

Oh no! Slashed stomach.

Oh my god. Stabbed.

C’mon guys, your ENTIRE job is to make us jump and feel icky when we leave the theater, looking over our shoulders for the dark corners. But no, we are treated to dull, foreseeable pathetic scenarios with paper-thin characters and get this… best part, NO PLOT! There is no story. Kids go out to find some mystery crop of weed, Jason steps out and kills them. Kids go out to have a weekend away from school (or where ever) and a tag-along is looking for his missing sister, Jason steps out and kills them. Uh….. Sigh.

Don’t waste your time or your mental awareness. If you’re anything like me, you’ll forget you’re watching a movie and start doing something progressive… you know, like breathing.

First up we have a new martial arts fun fest from Indonesia, the first martial arts film to be released here in almost 25 years.  The film is called Merantau.

Merantau Trailer (HD) from Merantau Films on Vimeo.

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Next up is another actioner with martial arts embedded within, Blood: The Last Vampire, the live action remake from the anime with the same name.

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And finally, a fan film set in the Lord of the Rings universe called the Hunt For Gollum. It’s that much more impressive when you find out the entire film was made for $3,000 and a lot of dedicated LotR fans.

See the trailers after the jump.

So kill me. I liked this movie.

The digital work sucked, like the cat that’s being hacky-sacked. The
feet kicking the face.

But I loved the sexual innuendos (in your endo!) with the hair
cutting, especially when he spit the conditioner into her hair, that
was a bit yucky. I wonder what they were using for that… I can’t
imagine Adam Sandler actually putting hair conditioner in his mouth.
Or lotion or whatever. It must be some kind of coconut syrup or
something. But that’s the not the point… actually, he probably would
do it. If any actor would, it’s him.

I liked the bulge in the pants. I liked how awesome his fighting was.
Or rather, the stunt’s fighting. I love the business named “Going out
of business” and Mariah Carey. She was pretty funny in it, but I do
still get the impression that she’s a stuck up bitch. She seems like
one of those women who’s like, “Oh I’ll totally be in the next Happy
Madison movie, because I need to make a comeback and that’s the type
of movie people wouldn’t expect me in. I’ll catch them off guard with
how awesome I look now that I’m not crazy and how I still like
butterflies, and they’ll fall in love because I’m hot as well as
clever. Why else would I be in a movie with Adam Sandler if I’m not
funny?” I’ll tell you why. She’s shtupping the director. Or maybe the
Janitor… that’d probably be enough to get her into this movie. Yuck.
I bet he wasn’t even good looking. And I bet she doesn’t get that
comeback she’s looking for.

All in all, it was fun to watch, but definitely not one of Adam
Sandler’s best. I enjoy his pre-Anger Management days myself, although
I did enjoy him in Spanglish and 50 First Dates. But he’d be smart not
to follow this slapstick, over the top goofy path too far. I like him
best when he’s witty and not appealing to children (like in Click and
Bedtime Stories, eh, Junk??)

Now I’m off to watch Bugs Bunny cartoons compiled with Road Runner
cartoons into a 1979 full length feature “movie.” This sounds
exciting.

I was looking forward to seeing this movie for many reasons, none of
which are really logical. Firstly: I associate the name “Rachel” with
my very favorite of all time television show, Friends. Rachel is one
of my favorite characters. So subconsciously, although it’s not too
subconscious since I know about it now… I figured it HAD to be good.
Secondly: I heard that Anne Hathaway is very good in this. I like
believing what I hear… and in all honesty, the actors and actresses
are more important and pertinent to my decision to watch something
then the director or writer. And lastly, I like stories about drug
addiction. Someone very close to me was addicted to drugs and it’s
always held some sort of fascination for me. So I enjoy these movies.

Now, granted, I wasn’t watching the whole film just looking at it. I
was cleaning and organizing and generally moving around. Also,
sneezing a lot, because there’s so much dust. Everywhere! Dust bunnies
might invoke a nice image in your mind, but trust me, they are not to
be taken lightly. Ew.

I’m pretty happy with the movie. Anne’s performance is great - she’s
whiny, needy, dependent… but she’s talented, too. If you’ve ever
known anyone who’s suffered with drugs, this will pull a string for
you, she’s that good. But the movie drags on at a fairly slow pace.
It’s an intense movie and the story is well worth it, but I didn’t
miss anything at all while I was cleaning and that means I was looking
at the screen about… 20% of the time. So you can imagine my surprise
when I looked up as Rachel announced she was pregnant and wondered who
the black man was in the all white family that was so excited. Lol. I
guess I would have picked up on the fact that he was her fiance if I
had been watching, but I also think I would have fallen asleep if I
was just sitting and watching.

The most intense part of the movie for me was when Sidney (Rachel’s
fiance) and the father race each other to see who can do a better job
filling the dishwasher the “correct” way. I liked that part. I’ve
always liked packing things in the dishwasher, you can fit so much
more if you do it in an orderly and patient fashion instead of just
throwing it in, ya know? Anyhow. It’s pretty good. I don’t think I’ll
watch it again. You can only hear the same sob story a certain number
of times, and for me and Rachel, one is that time.

So… let’s do this one a little different as well. I’ll list the Pros
and Cons and we’ll add them up and see if it’s worth it. First, the
premise: Jim plays Carl, a divorced man who hasn’t quite regrouped yet
and says no to almost everything. Wanna see my band play? No. Want to
buy oranges? No. Want to attend my wacky wig slash hat party? No. He
attends a seminar after having a bad dream… so he can learn to
become a “Yes Man.” Let’s see how it changes his life.

Pro:
- I love the opening song. Actually the whole scene. I always worry
about the person seeing me when I’m lying on the phone. I’ve never had
it happen though. Thank the lords.
- Carl’s boss, Norman, is from Flight of the Conchords, and is just as
awesome in this. He’s hilarious.
- Brother + Joseph = broseph. One hand shakes and the other
one goes around for a hug.
- Norm? Can that be his nickname? Maybe Riti can be mine?
- His sense of style is awesome.
- My favorite: He says to the black man, “I was going to
fist you.” Lol. Laugh out Loud. I really did. I can hardly ever say
that, usually when I say “lol” I’m not really saying it. I’m texting
it. And that’s because LOL is easier to text than “Oh, that thing you
just texted was pretty humorous and I would like to let you know that
I appreciate the humor in it and smiled on the inside.”
- Carl says to his ex-wife, “Well, I’m Gone-orreah.” And it’s awkward.
I’m going to have to say that more often… if I can somehow work it
into the situation at hand.
- Jim Carrey looks older, which is nice, because he IS older, even if
his sense of humor isn’t. Although sometimes when he smiles, his
cheeks look like they’ve been worked on. So many older actors are
getting work done and I just don’t understand it. Although, if I had
the money, I’d probably do it as well.
- Danny Masterson looks exactly the same as he did as the stoner in
That 70’s Show. Except not nearly as sexy as he was back then.
- Drunk Jim Carrey is awesome. I love it. “Just don’t break my teeth
off on the curb, okay?”
- More than once I laughed out loud! I love when he tapes up his face.
I did that when I was a kid, but with masking tape. It really hurt to
pull off and the smell was horrendous. Now every time I tape something
closed, I smell it!
- Munchhausen by Proxy has awesome song lyrics. And great stage presence. Lol.
- I want to have a Harry Potter party!!! Who will come? I have my own
wand and everything. It’s REAL.
- So glad to see Third Eye Blind’s song, Jump, was put to good use.
It’s been forever since one of their songs has been in a movie. But he
looks like he’s lip syncing and it’s not done well. So I guess it’s
more a neutral than a pro.

Con:
- Looks a little slapstick with the slipping and sliding in the bar
and knocking over trays, but see #3 Pro.
- His friend’s annoy the hell out of me. Always calling, always bugging him.
- As someone mentioned, this is very similar to Liar, Liar.
Admittedly, I enjoyed that one a little as well.
- Oh my god! I hate the homeless man.
- Where’s the love interest? Oh, right there where she should be, not
even 30 minutes into the film.
- Where’s the silly Jim we’ve come to hate? Oh… there he is, 45
minutes into the movie. At least it’s short.
- Of course the first black man they throw in the movie is from Corporate.
- How much did Lincoln, NE need to contribute to this movie to get
them to feature their city? Museum, chicken grindhouse, football team,
the middle of nowhere. Yeah, I can see how this would be the place to
go.

Conclusion:

Going back through these after the movie is over, I’m realizing that
most of the cons turn into pros later. Or at least don’t matter as
much. All in all, this movie is a lot of fun. The only thing I’m
always disappointed in… is that every movie follows the same
formula. Introduction, but problems arise, you have the touching music
while he figures out what to do and then they do it and it fixes
everything. I enjoy this sometimes, but others it gets very old and
I’m wanting movies that don’t follow this pattern.

But other than that… I really enjoyed this movie. It made me giggle.
It made me smile. I’m glad it wasn’t the normal Jim Carrey I’m used
to. Ace Ventura was fun (and 23 was bad) but I don’t want to revisit
that anytime soon. I hope his movies continue to grow and I hope he
does more like Eternal Sunshine. Most people will enjoy watching this
once, even if it’s after you’ve been drinking, with a bunch of
friends, on a dare and put it in the DVD player. It’s very fun.

Here I am again, at work with nothing to do but watch Netflix Instant
movies (how is that for product promotion!) and lo and behold, I found
the perfect movie to review. I’m going to do this a little differently
this time. Instead of watching the movie and keeping my thoughts to
myself (although SB will beg to differ. I always talk in the middle of
movies and ask questions and yell at the people and generally piss
everyone off around me. But hey, I do what I want!) I’m going to do a
review WHILE I’m watching the movie. So it’ll be like you, gentle
reader, are sitting there next to me, catching my play by play in
person. You bring the popcorn (I love it, even though you get kernels
stuck in between your teeth and it hurts so bad and you just keep
picking at it and when you finally get it it’s like, “Hell yeah! I
totally owned that popcorn kernel shell! Take note, the rest of you.
Don’t test me!”) Cue it up!

So the opening song is pretty awesome. Brittany Snow… that’s a name
I know. She looks familiar too, but don’t know. Maybe she’s related to
Hayden Panties… they look alike. Save the Cheerleader! I love Hiro.
He’s so funny. He’s on Scrubs, too. Small world, I guess.

Oh, look at that. She stumbles into a dark house, somehow does not
notice her father covered in blood. She yells, “Hello? I’m home!” And
the killer, who is probably still lurking in the house, somehow does
not hear her incessant mumbling. There’s a nice array of catchy puns -
“I almost killed myself on this baseball bat!” (Har, har.) There’s the
killer. Why doesn’t he look under the bed? If I were a killer, I’d be
all looking under every bed in that house, even the ones that are
really low to the ground, because some bitches be all skinny and can
fit under those, too. Or look on the ceiling - sometimes they hide
there, too. Sneaky ninja people who are all sneaky. Butthole.

Skip ahead. She’s getting ready for prom, apparently it’s a big deal.
Hm. Should she take her pills? No… that’ll just make the date rape
she’s hoping will happen tonight that much less memorable. Jump scare.
Loving aunt (who is Hayden Panties mom in Heroes, how weird) is saying
“I know you’re all grown up and stuff, so it’s time for you to wear
your mom’s shawl that matches that dress you just bought perfectly!”
“Oh no, I am not worthy.” “Oh yes, you are. Now wear it.” Yeah, blonde
main character, maybe it’ll cover that huge scar in the middle of your
forehead. It’s usually nice to see actors and actresses with
imperfections, but in this case, I just want to take one of those
cement spreading things and fill it in with liquid latex or Maybelline
foundation.

So we find out later that the killer, who looks much too similar to
Charles Manson (who is kind of sexy, BTW, for a short, insane
homicidal maniac who looks like he needed a haircut two year ago and a
good shave) is an old science teacher that loves her and escapes from
prison through the ultra secure, highly complex ceiling panels in his
cell.

What do we have here? Typical high school prom scenes - drama between
the couples, cramps that are fixed with Midol, friends gossiping,
creepy teacher lurking in the dark waiting to kill or fuck the girl
(still don’t know her name) we’re not exactly sure which one. Friend
goes missing, she’s dead but no one knows but us. (Girl says “Michael
you’re going to lose her if you keep acting like this.” Boyfriend of
dead girl says, “Yeah. I doubt that.” Lol. Funny, clever writing.)
Serious relationship talks about the future, when they haven’t even
had sex yet. Teenage boys acting a bit drunk, even though they’re
drinking pop from rocks glasses.

This is too much. I’m wearing myself out. There’s too much to say. The
dialogue is unnatural, it seems over exaggerated. He spent FOUR hours
picking out a flower for her. They went $100,000 over budget. Did you
hear that? The party planner went $100,000 over budget? My prom was at
a hotel with gross food and a stupid little plastic arch. Woo-hoo. It
probably cost about $3000 total. What does a $100,000 prom look like?
Oh, apparently a red carpet event. See all those people that just
REALLY want to go to prom with these over privileged high school
assholes. Everything is very cliche. You know where this is going
because it’s a story you’ve heard a million times before. The acting
is way sub-par. It’s jump scare galore - I haven’t seen one thing
that’s frightened me legitimately. But it’s still kind of enjoyable to
watch… in the same way a train wreck is fun to watch. For a dumb,
mindless background movie… this movie is worth a watch. But only if
you’re in some catatonic state or have your eyes taped open as some
weird sort of visual mind games and torture. Otherwise, don’t watch
it. Netflix should be ashamed! Shame!!

31 March 2009
Al Udied, Qatar
Status: Hurry up and wait.

Hello all, Fcknbob here. Don’t know when I’ll be able to write again, if I do it will probably be sent snail mail to Junk and if he has time to transcribe or scan you may see it. Also being in The Suck, my chances to see new releases are non existent so I’ll be writing on older shit(as soon as we get power/water/tents, yeah we are getting prehistoric) and Junk can squeeze them in when he sees fit.
So I’ve been here for four days and we are waiting on a bird to fly us to the ‘ghany so we can start our shit and get the damn thing done. Anyway here is a lot of time to sit around while we wait and lucky for us they have a theater here. They are able to get “newer” movies for us to watch. Watching a movie in a military setting is an experience in its self. To start with, guess what? no screaming babies! The trade off is a bunch of sweaty fuckers and no previews. Before the movie begins, you stand for the playing of the national anthem while a slideshow of you tube quality plays on screen. You’ve seen it, patriotic image here, snapshots of military stuff going on, some cool shots of shit blowing up during the whole “rockets red glare” portion of the song.
So the movie starts and our boredom is about to be alleviated, we have a chance to escape from our minds, our troubles, our thoughts of home, the fear of the unknown, the need for an alcoholic drink of choice and the near unbearable sexual frustration. So here it comes…

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Paul Blart: Mall Cop

*sigh*

“Dammit!”
If I had anything better to do and it wasn’t blowing sand outside, I’d have walked out right then and there. Don’t watch this movie, I’ll save you the time:
Goofy fatty falls and bumbles around while you see that he is just a good guy. Fatty has the chance to be a hero, slapstick, blah blah blah, Indian stereotype, bad guys, parkuor running about, saves day, gets girl way out of his league, the end. You are pissed. You just watched Home alone again.

“Ok fuckers you burnt me, next movie!”

The Punisher: War Zone

AWWW! WHAT THE FUCK?!

Am I on the Satellite of Love? Will two wisecracking robots sit next to me and talk through this steamer? Holy hell dude. How does this shit get made? Bad Bad Bad. Which sucks because I liked Ray Stevenson in Rome. Guess what? More parkour stunts. Rant time:

Fucking Parkour! What the hell is with this shit?! Call me a hater but these are the guys that on the playground were running around in circles making car noises. Bunch of hyperactive shits. The only thing good about this shit is watching them bust their shit on You Tube.
“SIT STILL AND TAKE YOUR MEDS!”
Rant over.

But yeah, this was crap. The only good thing was that it wasn’t just another origin story. I’m getting kind of sick of watching a movie of a character that has been around for decades and part of pop culture. Standing outside myself, I appreciated that. I also liked Jigsaw’s make up, it wasn’t that spectacular, it just made me think of the Tavlecks in Farscape. Good job Hollywood. You put out another forgettable action movie, so to return the favor, I’ll end with a line that has been probably used by a bunch of other reviewers:
“After watching this pile, the only one punished was me”

That’s it for now boys and girls, here’s my couple of pennies. I’ll try to take up more space on this site as soon as time permits. Till then drink up for thems what can’t.

So, this past week, on Monday to be exact, I think, I watched a lot of
The Office (the American version, not the British version. Although I
have no problem with that version either, it’s just not my cup of tea,
eh?) and that got me in the hankering mood to watch my favorite
character, Dwight (sometimes it’s Jim and sometimes it’s Creed, but
it’s never Michael) in something else. I chose The Rocker. Directed by
some guy, and another guy, produced by a lot of people and starring
Christina Applegate, Rainn Wilson (not sure how to pronounce that. Is
it “rain” or “ray-in” or “ryan”?) and some kids from the Disney or
Nick channel.

I wasn’t sure what to expect, because when you grow to love a
character in one show (for me it’s Jennifer Aniston as Rachel. She
will always be Rachel, and a lot of the roles she chooses are just
Rachels in disguise. That’s why I liked her in that rape movie and in
The Good Girl, because she WASN’T Rachel.) but when you love an actor
for one character they play so well, sometimes they’re ALWAYS that
character and while it’s still entertaining, you begin to wonder if
they have real merit or not. Either way, I watched the whole movie
once alone, and once again with Junk, who, despite what he tells you,
laughed as much as I did.

So here we go - Fish (Rainn-y day Wilson) was dumped out of his band,
Vesuvius (he came up with the name, damn it!) when they get a record
deal and that leads to a boring, flat line of 20 years, where Fish has
hit bottom and while he tries to forget and get over what his band did
to them, he knows he missed out on the light and hates them for it. He
has accepted normality and becomes a pretty straight laced, normal guy
(save for a terrible wardrobe and a short ponytail). Meanwhile, his
nephew (who’s played by a generic fat guy, but very fun) Matt and his
band (A.D.D.) need a new drummer. Matt is the fat guy who can’t get
chicks, but think that him on keyboards is enough to woo at least one
(and he’s right) and Curtis, the lead singer of the band is a broody,
emo good-looking Disney kid with daddy issues, and has a hot mom
(Christina Applegate). The third member is a chick! I know, a girl in
a rock band (although it’s not real rock) is preposterous. But we
(women) are making great strides, apparently, in the fields of music
and movies, so it’s completely plausible.of course, you can tell where
it’s going from here.

Fish joins the band, hilarity ensues, oops - a little bit of drama,
blah, blah, blah. I will conclude by saying this - the script is
disgusting. It’s predictable and so utterly reeking of cliche you
can’t help but feel sick. You can guess what’s coming around the
corner next from a mile away. The dialog isn’t great, but it has it’s
moments. The acting is fun - the girl is spunky (she was in Superbad,
which I did not enjoy the first time like everyone else did. It’s all
right, I’m just saying. Seth Rogan gets on my nerves with his deep
gravely voice that’s a little whiny and not at all confident), the fat
guy is a little desperate, but lovable (most fat actors are.
Apparently, fat and funny is the new skinny and talented) and Rainn
pulls of a decent performance as well, given the material he had to
work with.

So… in conclusion I say this: I love eye make up on men as much as I
love spandex and scarves on my men (which is a lot) and Rainn can pull
it off well. As much as I loved him in the 80’s glam wash-up, I love
him more as Dwight. I feel like, for me, he will always be Dwight. The
whole movie I was missing his mustard colored shirts, his glasses, his
holier-than-thou demeanor and his extensive knowledge of all things
bear and karate. If you enjoy the humor of The Office, this movie will
give you a few laughs but will not satiate that hunger you feel for
off-beat and embarrassingly painful humor. Fact: The writing just
isn’t that good.

But watch it once, for the sake of saying you saw it, and enjoy it.
But don’t plan on enjoying it more than once or twice. Although the
second time I watched it I found so much more to it than the first
time, so many more subtle story lines and ambient symbolism. False. I
did not.

Ritiland

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