Funny People

[Heylel Teomim]

Anchorman is still damn funny, but 40 Yr Old is played out to me. I can still watch Superbad and Forgetting Sarah Marshall though. Also looking forward to that Aldous Snow spinoff movie.

[The Ancient]

So played out.

[schwein]

check out "i love you man", it just came out on dvd. paul rudd and jason segal same director as super bad. really damn funny.

[Criminiminal]

A buddy of mine gets drunk and emails me reviews of various things, so I started a website for him.. Home . Here is his review of Funny People.

Not so fucking funny
Let me tell you something...Funny People MAY be a movie, but there are 2 things that it aint.. 1) it aint about people that are funny. andl 2) It aint fucking funny. Not at all.
Funny People was absolutely the worst movie I've seen in the last...i dont even know. I can't remember a worse movie. Perhaps not because there aren't any, but because I'm so transfixed on this hunk of cinematic shit that my judgment is blurred.

It's 2 hrs and 26 minutes long, which puts it in the realm of Lord of the Rings in length, but couple that with the fact that the "funny people" in it are as funny as Joe Pesci and Danny Glover in Gone Fishin' and you quickly start to feel every single painful second that sweet death has not yet taken you.

In fact, now that I think about it, Gone Fishin is actually fucking funnier.

I'm actually offended by this movie. I honestly feel like the entire movie was made to insult me, ridicule my children and attack the character of my dogs.

Forgetting the fact that Seth Rogan is in it, because lets be honest, Seth Rogan is in fucking everything from 40 year old virgin, to Apocolypse Now and fucking Dumb and Dumber. I bet his mom was an extra in the Godfather while she was fucking pregnant. Also, the fatter version of him is in this shitflick too. You know..the fatty from Superbad. They even refer to him as the "Triple XL version" of Seth Rogan. Funny right? These are some funny fucking people here.

At one point in this cesspool of rotting, rancid and completely wasted film, there's a room filled with every single out of work comedian with a semi big name. This is so you can think "wow, there's alot of big names in this movie. It MUST be good" when in reality, there's bigger names working the snack stand. You remember "Be Cool" right? Admit it, you thought it was a good movie because of all the "big names" in it didn't you? You fucking douchebag. This is YOUR fault. Be Cool was fucking TERRIBLE you mother fucker. And so is Funny People.

A quick glance at the screen reveals such comedic icons as Dave Attel, Norm MacDonald, Sarah SilvergivemeafuckingjobpleaseandI'llsuckyouandyour uncleoff, and Ray Romano. The total pay for their appearances was probably $18.50 and a half a bag of corn nuts. And a blowjob from Silverman. Except for Ray Romano. He's so desperate for work, and so filthy rich, he probably paid them to let him appear. I'm sure he paid Silverman for a nut suck too. Skank. I wish Jimmy would've killed her.

Also, they were able to secure the comedy genius Eminem for a quick cameo. You know how Eminem is always confrontational in real life? You know how Eminem is always talking about how shitty life is when you're famous? You know how Eminem says it would be better to just die than to live in this shitty existence? Wouldn't it be so funny and fucking original to have him act EXACTLY the same fucking way in the movie? Wouldn't it be fucking FRESH to have him yell things at Ray Romano because Ray Romano looked at him? If you agree, then boy o boy will you be satisfied, because the director FUCKING NAILED IT.

You know how every movie or television show that has stand up in it, actually has HORRIBLE stand up in it? You know why? Because the writers that come up with good fucking stand up...STAND UP WITH IT. They don't put their top notch shit in an Adam Sandler movie...to DO FAKE STAND UP WITH IT. It doesn't happen. I knew this before I went to see this movie. Yet, somehow, I actually EXPECTED the stand up in this "comedy" to be good. It's my own fault really. I just assumed that no one would make a movie about stand up comedians, unless it actually was going to contain good stand up. Or even good comedy. The fact that the fake movie audiences were actually laughing at some of the fake stand up shit was actually FUNNIER than the fake stand up. It was actually laughable that the director thought he could give the impression that some of the stand up was funny. It was like he was trying to improvise a laugh track for his shit movie. It actually reminds me of the fake laugh track in the old Flintstones cartoons. Those jokes were about twice as funny as anything Funny Assholes had to offer.

Notice I haven't included any plot lines, or spoilers? That's not because I dont want to. And trust me, I dont fucking want to, but more so because I can't. There was no plot. At all. Sandler is dying from Leukemia. We should be so fucking lucky. Seth Rogan is NOT dying, but I can fucking dream can't I? Then at some point, due to "an experimental drug" Sandler is no longer dying. "No trace of the disease". I'm sure all the people with Leukemia fucking appreciate that little pick me up..
There is still an 1 HOUR and 40 minutes left FROM THIS POINT. This is where the director really bends us over and fuck us with ground glass, tabasco sauce and and salt as lube. Sandler and Rogan spend the next 1 hour and 40 minutes in Sandler's ex girlfriend's house trying to convince her to leave her husband and come back to Sandler. At the start of the movie, she hates his guts. An ex who wont take his phone calls. Refreshing and original right?
She finds out he's dying, she almost instantaneously falls back in love with him and of course forgives him for any past wrong doings. She then finds out he's not dying, and is so happy that she bangs him. Or maybe he only goes down on her. Honestly, I dont remember because I couldn't fucking care less at that point. There wasn't enough vicodin IN THE WORLD to make me pay attention.

That's it. The next 1 hr and 40 minutes they're in this chicks house, serving no purpose. There's nothing funny going on. There's actually a 2 minute long home video of a little girl singing, that is so drawn out and over exposed, she HAS to be the director's daughter or some shit. This movie was the epitome of ass rape by way of film. I dont mean film like you can call a movie a film. I mean like literally fucking my ass with spools of film and film canisters.

there was maybe 4 times when I actually chuckled, all of which I had already laughed at during the trailer when they showed the only semi funny parts 4 months ago. In one display of true comedy where-with-all, Sandler is making phony phone calls in that stupid ass high pitch voice he does. You know the one he used in Happy Gilmore when he gets closer than Shooter McGavin and he looks at him and says "Somebody's closer". That voice. Well anyway, he's doing phony phone calls somewhere doing that voice, saying something about pooping his pants and then just stops saying words all together and just starts making noises. And I swear to google, the actual audience starts laughing. Not the fake, in the movie audience. But my audience. The one I was part of. They were actually laughing. Let me dictate this.

Sandler is in high pitch "somebody's closer" character

"oogley...boogley. woof...wocka wocka blurbb blorug"

that is his prank phone call. Only it lasts for 3 minutes. God no fucking wonder this movie was so long and felt even fucking longer. I'm exhausted thinking about it. Taking breaks to actually work, as I'm at work, It actually took me less time to write this review, than the time they spent in that whore's house.

BTW, here's the ending. Sandler and Rogan get into a huge fight. It becomes evident Sandler is truly an asshole. Then Sandler approaches Rogan a few days later and it becomes evident that Sandler wants to be friends again. Rogan smiles. Fade out. Roll credits. I can only assume they rolled credits at that point because I threw my shoe up into the projection room and knocked the fucking projector and the fucking bastard running it over. Fuck that shit and fuck both of them bitches.

[Salshun]

Wait...fucking Loogie? Brad? AHAHAHHA

[Whyme]

I really, really enjoyed this movie. The movie tackled some very dark themes in a refreshing way. The comedy was still there, albeit in a different way. I didn't laugh as much as 40 Year Old Virgin or Superbad but I did find it much more profound then those two. The last 1/3 of the movie felt off to me somehow - the whole family thing just kind of fizzled. I wish they would have just cut that whole part of the plot out and focused more on the friendships.

Ah well. It was still much better than the reviews made it out to be.

[Vehn]

Originally Posted by schwein

check out "i love you man", it just came out on dvd. paul rudd and jason segal same director as super bad. really damn funny.

John Hamburg

he's not the same director as superbad

[Lanludar]

To Criminiminal: Your friend is a fucking idiot.

[Kiksar]

Originally Posted by Criminiminal

A buddy of mine gets drunk and emails me reviews of various things, so I started a website for him.. Home . Here is his review of Funny People.

Lots of people have friends like this but they're usually only funny to those who know them. To everybody else, they're just failing at being funny and clever while making fun of something that they think isn't funny or clever. (Nobody cares about your friend's cryblog.)

[Bizanich]

Originally Posted by Criminiminal

A buddy of mine gets drunk and emails me reviews of various things, so I started a website for him

I think you're wasting your money on the website for him.

[Brad2770]

So, I went to Movie Tavern tonight with some friends to watch this. I was already kind of tipsy, so when I was getting the ticket, I said "I need a ticket to Funny People 2: Laugh Harder"

She replied "What? thats not even a movie."

"Wait. What year is it?" I looked at my phone "Shit, we came back to 2009 guys. Fuck."

"That wasnt Funny. Just like the movie. So, you will like it."


I knew then the movie was going to suck.... and I am sad to say- It did.


Edit- I guess now that I am sobered up some, i will explain why it sucked.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

I liked the dark comedy. I liked that it was a famous comedian dying and he was kind of going back to his roots and helping out a beginner. The movie should have been just that with him dying at the end and the newbie getting some kind of break into movies.

The part where he was trying to get back his lost love made me want to kill myself.

[The Ancient]

At least last night you had an excuse for this crap.

[Khempis]

This just came to the theatre on base here in Japan. I enjoyed the awkward humor for what it was. I liked the cameos, and overall it was a fun way to spend 2.5 hours sober in Japan.

I'm not sure why so many people gave it bad reviews. Sure, I didn't laugh all of the way through it. But it had its moments. Eric Bana earholing him in the front yard was awesome.