I attempted a viewing of Adam Sandler’s Funny People today but had to leave the theatre within the first 30 minutes because it was an assault on my values. I had hoped to get a proper review of this new release that just came out at the box office on July 31st, but staying in my seat voluntarily watch
ing and hearing the kind of filth spewing from the screen wasn’t an option for me.
The basic premise answers this question: If you get a second chance on life, would you be a better person? I think it’s a sensational concept, all about changing for the better. Sandler plays a famous comedian (hmm…is this autobiographical?) called George Simmons who finds out he has a very aggressive form of leukemia. He handles the news by deciding to do even more crude stand-up comedy and enlist a fan and budding comedian, Ira Wright (Seth Rogen), to help write funny, crass material. Ira and George become friends who eventually help each other out: George helps Ira step into the career of stand-up comedy; Ira helps George deal with his terminal illness. But when George’s illness goes into remission and he gets a second chance on life and love, George begins to evaluate how he has been living.
Perhaps this Judd Apatow film does get better and even cleaner if you stay for the rest. I truly hope so, but honestly I doubt it. I heard more references to male body parts, sexual acts, and potty-mouthed cursing in the first quarter of the film than I cared to ever hear.
I left the movie feeling really depressed. Ironic when the title of this comedy is about people that are supposed to make me laugh.
– Laura J. Bagby
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Posted in At Box Office, Crime, Drama, Film Genre, Film Rating, Film Release, Film Review, Rated R with tags audio commentary, audio review, Baby Face Nelson, bank robberies, Billie Frechette, Billy Crudup, Christian Bale, cops and robbers, Crime, criminal, Drama, Film Review, gangster, good vs. evil, J. Edgar Hoover, James Cagney, John Dillinger, Johnny Depp, justice, Liz Lane, Marion Cotillard, Melvin Purvis, Michael Mann, mob, movie review, Positive Hit Radio The Current, prison, Public Enemies, radio, Rated R, The Current, The Godfather, Universal Pictures, violence on July 1, 2009 by Laura J. BagbyEventually, however, Dillinger meets his overdue fate when faced with the law-enforcing Bureau of Investigation (later to be named the FBI), headed by Director J. Edgar Hoover (Billy Crudup). Special Agent Melvin Purvis (Christian Bale) and the other G-men who have been trailing Dillinger for the past 14 months finally bring justice. Read more »
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