Sunday, 07 June 2009

• The Hangover: Mancouch's Movie of the Month

  I just saw The Hangover today... and it is Mancouch's pick for Mancouch's Movie of the Month!!
  
  

  
  

  
  RottenTomatoes reports that 76% of al reviews were positive, which shocked me.  How could 24% of people think this movie wasn't brilliant?!
  
  So I thought we'd read a snippet from one of the negative reviews.  This has the two-fold benefit of lowering your expectations (so you enjoy the movie more), and allowing us to mock people we don't know.
  
  

  This represents the worst sort of pandering slop, the type that appeases impressionable audiences who don’t even realize they’re being insulted. It insinuates that practically every man is a shallow asshole who revels in his Neanderthal habits, and that every woman falls into the category of shrew or whore.

  Again, contrast this with, say, the characters played by Steve Carell and Catherine Keener in The 40-Year-Old Virgin or Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann in Knocked Up — recognizably flawed people who nevertheless remain likable and interesting enough to earn our sympathies. The dipshits on view in this film are neither funny enough nor engaging enough to command our attention as they wander through a series of set-pieces that reek of comic desperation rather then genuine inspiration (as evidenced in Old School and at least three times here, director Todd Phillips seems to believe that seeing a homely man naked is automatically a gut buster). Honestly, if I wanted to hang out with such backward clods, I’d save the ticket price and just go trolling in sports bars and frat houses.

  WTF?!  I went to an afternoon show and the audience was packed with both men and women.  I don't think I've heard an audience laugh louder, ever.
  
  I'm gonna cut to the chase: the movie wasn't remotely politically correct.  If you can't get past that (like the clown above), then don't go see the movie.  But if you enjoy reading Mancouch, then you'll enjoy watching this film.
  
  If you don't enjoy reading Mancouch, then I can't help you.
  
  Did you get a chance to catch The Hangover this weekend?
  

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