The makers of THE HANGOVER 2 knew that they would have to up the ante considerably to justify another long strange trip with The Wolfpack. Alas, rather than wait for a suitably upped ante, or any ante at all, they decided to do a retread of the original, this time without the laughs, substituting humor… Read More »
STARSKY & HUTCH
I think I know what happened here. Someone came up with three really good jokes and decided that an entire film could be created around them. For insurance, that same someone decided to slap those jokes into a big-screen version of a 70s television series, hoping that the identification would also bring in a ready-made… Read More »
HEARTBREAK KID, THE
It takes chutzpah of a particularly flagrant sort to update the Neil Simon/Elaine May classic, THE HEARTBREAK KID. The Farrelly Brothers obviously pack that sort of gumption, taking the droll but deadly humor of the original and rethinking it with their trademark penchant for slapstick and silliness. It may not have the same wry weltschmertz… Read More »