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Weekend Peep Show: Laughter Is Back
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We are all going to need Depend undergarments to make it through the weekend. Okay, that’s a slight exaggeration. But I warn you, this is a rare occasion. There are movies coming out that promise to make you laugh, but unlike the hijinks of Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker in Rush Hour 3, these movies contain subject matter that actually will induce gut-busting guffaws.
Superbad
It’s awesome. It takes you back to high school. So, there are two guys you know (Jonah Hill and Michael Cera), and you don’t know them well because they have their own language. And they have this friend, McLovin', who is constantly staring at your thong and then swearing he wasn’t (Christopher Mintz-Plasse). And suddenly, you’re at a party and there’s no booze, and the word is that those dudes are bringing the alcohol. And you’re like, huh? And because this isn’t your memory, because Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg are writing the story of what happens when said boys try to get said booze, you can’t even imagine what happens on this fateful night. But you do get to go watch it.
Go on Friday night. Go to a theater where there will be a huge crowd, which I guess is any theater. Bring a bunch of friends. And hit the restroom before it starts. And when that one friend who always has PMS whines that the movie went a little off track when the cops (Rogen and Bill Hader) were hanging with McLovin', tell him or her to get a life. Director Greg Mottola & Co. gave us a Hawaiian organ donor who talks like Eminem on Bazooka Bubble Gum. These dudes deserve nothing but a huge opening weekend.
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Death at a Funeral
Word is that when director Frank Oz got his hands on Dean Craig’s script, it needed a little work. Hey, if someone like Oz thinks a script deserves work, that’s a compliment. Anyhow, Death is like a delicately layered cake you would see on the Food Network. It’s jam-packed with an ensemble cast, yet the movie doesn’t collapse from too many ingredients like those enormous cakes in the baking challenges sometimes do. Food Network similes end here, folks. I swear.
The editing is perfection. Funeral dances along from one subplot to the next, with each one advancing at just the right pace. This is how you make a small movie. You grab onto a straight-as-an-arrow plot: Daniel (Matthew Macfadyen), the son who stayed close to home, is thus responsible for putting together a funeral and giving a eulogy for his dearly departed dad. All hell breaks loose thanks to an unexpected and very noticeable guest (Peter Dinklage). Alan Tudyk takes his clothes off. Ewen Bremner stares in the way that only he can, while Andy Nyman and Peter Vaughan deal with tighty-whities.
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The Invasion
By far the funniest movie of the weekend, Invasion will make you cackle with joy. Warner Bros. spent money on this remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. LOL. The Wachowski brothers wasted precious time trying to fix it. LOLOL. Nicole Kidman is starring (aka taking one step closer to being known as Mrs. Keith Urban). LOLOLOL. The studio didn’t even have a premiere for this clunker. Okay, wait, that part is just kind of sad. Sniffle, sniffle. Damn it, this weekend was supposed to be all about the fun!
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