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Reviewed By: Lord High Rikonian ( 1/10/2010 11:19:20 AM)
Rating: 0.00 nacho libres
Genre: Pretentious tripe masquerading as a comedy.
Starring: George Michael Bluth, Zack Galagreekguy, Tommy Vercetti, Ol' Bug Eyes
Plot: Not since Nacho Libre have I been so psyched and so wretchedly disappointed in the same movie.
This movie had almost everything going for it, so I still cannot understand how it failed so abyssmally to entertain. I'm a big fan of Michael Cera. I'm, a big fan of Zach Galafanakis. Fred Willard always amuses me. Steve Buscemi always puts in an interesting performance. Ray Liotta is awesome. I even find Justin Long funny (though I am aware that according to modern science, just admitting that last bit does make me a douchebag).
And this movie has most everything a great Michael Cera comedy needs. It has his self-effacing nerdy badboy wannabe wit, it has over the top not quite likable characters, it has even more over the top shennanigans.
But it lacks any sense of comedic pacing. Yes, there's funny moments in the movie, and if you saw the trailer, then congratulations, you saw pretty much every good moment in this film, and saved yourself about 80 minutes or so.
The movie has ther dull plodding pace of a bad art film, with just enough hints of zaniness to make you hold out hope, for the first half hour or so, that it's a slow buildup to a more fun or entertaining or interesting film. Maybe when the alternate persona emerges, this movie will stop jerking us around and start being entertaining. Nope, doesn't happen. And the notion of such an alternate persona is usually very interesting. Look at Fight Club for the best example. This movie, despite blatantly cribbing the whole Tyler Durden angle, falls far too short of that mark.
The movie remains bland throughout, and the big "will he get caught for the arson?" question they toss out then resolve then toss out again is answered in the same sort of bland "meh, whatever" manner the rest of this movie plods along in.
Viewing Advice: Rent Superbad. Rent Fight Club. Get two TVs and DVD players, put the TVs side by side and watch both disks simultaneously.
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