With its cast of cartoonish characters coming in and out of scenes and the small rotation of locations, Friday feels like a stage comedy. And it succeeds at the hilarity with a mix of quality gags, iconic performances, and silly quotables. Where it lands on the comedy, it wobbles on the subtext and story - it's clunky storytelling but stylistically interesting.
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Love Again 2023
A fundamentally flawed romcom.
The plot device that initiates Love Again's central relationship renders it null and void yet the film just moves past it like any other romcom. The male lead character and actor is also weak. The Celine Dion inclusion is weird - it feels a lot like she must've been a friend of a producer. There are a handful of amusing moments via the various side characters but that's about all the film has to offer.
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Ace Ventura: Pet Detective 1994
Ace Ventura is Johnny Bravo. Except he actually gets laid.
It's the classic Carrey conundrum: he's a force of nature that not only sucks in the audience but the entire film along with it. He's funny but the character and story fall by the wayside to his crazy antics. Ace Ventura: Pet Detective has plenty of hilarious moments driven by its iconic lead despite ultimately having aged horribly in the targets of its derisive humour. It's a jarring rewatch, having misremembered this as a kid's film, after watching it as a kid.
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King Kong vs. Godzilla 1962
King Kong had such great vibes - he was just chilling on his island before being dragged off to a streetfight with a superpowered dinosaur yet he always had a pep in his step.
King Kong vs. Godzilla manages more interesting subtext than Godzilla Raids Again, something that made the original so impactful, by almost breaking the fourth wall to lampoon entertainment executives looking to engineer a colossal face-off between these monsters regardless of the consequences. That aside, the film…
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