Perhaps what’s most shocking about this film is that money was actually spent to shoot some of the film in Italy. And then, instead of actually using Rome’s famous Trevi Fountain, the production created a prop for the Fountain of Love used in the film. I guess even the city of Rome was doing its best to disassociate itself with this 2010 travesty.
For my full review click here.
I don’t have an official review of this one to point to because it hit theaters while I was in France for the Cannes Film Festival. However, I did write about it in my weekly DVD/Blu-ray column and what I wrote there sums it up perfectly so I’ll just reprint those two paragraphs here instead of delving any further.
Okay, I finally watched this movie and all the negative reviews were spot on. This movie is downright awful. It’s a series of jokes that can hardly be classified as jokes. The sequence in which MacGruber puts together his crime-fighting team lasts something like ten minutes all in an effort for one of the most obvious punchlines you’ll see coming from a mile away. The unrated cut is 95 minutes long, but I’d argue there isn’t more than 15 minutes of actual story and I don’t believe I ever laughed. I felt sorry for everyone involved, especially Ryan Phillippe as he was forced to strut around naked, cupping his genitals with a piece of celery in his ass. No joke, that actually happens.
Another “joke” relies on the fact MacGruber drives a Miata. Ha! Another is that MacGruber has a pull out stereo receiver that he won’t leave the car without (it’s a joke that’s used about 10 times) and he loves ’80s music. Hardy har! No wonder “Saturday Night Live” is so awful when they don’t have a political campaign to mock.
To quote my review, “[This] film mines the depths of human stupidity to the point it assumes the audience is just as dumb as its characters.”
Atom Egoyan’s Chloe was nothing more than a reason to show Amanda Seyfried and Julianne Moore getting naked and sweaty. The film devolves into an insult to human intelligence and one I couldn’t wait to put behind me.
For my full review from back in March click here.
The fact any critic ever believed for a second this awful film was real is baffling. To make matters worse people only seemed to accept it was fiction when Casey Affleck told the New York Times so. What a joke, the manipulation of the online press has reached an all-time high.
You can read my full review from September right here.
