Posts tagged Comedy
The Other Woman “The Other Women”
Apr 30th
Posted by Channel 1 Networks in Hotshots Movie Reviews
“Hotshots” looks at a movie!
THE OTHER WOMAN is a fantasy come true for all women who have been involved with a man who cheated on them with another woman and even for women who have been that other woman, themselves.
In other words, it is a revenge movie, but presented as a comedy.
Cameron Diaz stars as Carly, and at the beginning of the movie she has been dating Mark for eight weeks, enough time for him to meet her father, Frank, played by Don Johnson.
However, Mark bails out of the meeting, telling Carly that he has to rush home to Connecticut for the weekend to fix a plumbing problem in his house.
So, Carly decides to wear something sexy and surprise Mark at his house, but she is the one who is surprised when she is greeted at the door by Mark’s wife, Kate, played by Leslie Mann.
Carly is a lawyer in New York City, and she tells her secretary, “I don’t do married guys,” and she thinks the unpleasant business is over.
However, Kate shows up to see Carly and wants to know the details about Carly’s involvement with Kate’s husband, eventually they become friends, and when they spy on Mark, they discover that he was even cheating on Carly with a super-hot girl, Amber, played by Kate Upton.
Well, now all three women get together and conspire to get revenge on Mark, who by now has revealed himself to the audience as being a real jerk who deserves to be brought down by these women.
Mark is an entrepreneur, and, sure enough, when the three women follow him to the Bahamas, where Mark keeps his money in order to hide it from Kate, they discover that he might even have another girlfriend, which would mean that he is also cheating on Amber.
The story is preposterous, it takes too long to get started, and it takes too long in the middle to get to where it wants to go, but it does have some laughs, it does have some scenes of slapstick, and it does end with the women getting revenge on a cheating jerk.
THE OTHER WOMAN should more accurately be titled “The Other Women,” I found some problems with it even though I laughed in places, but then it wasn’t made for men, was it?
I’m Dan Culberson and this is “Hotshots.”
“Bad Words” A Joy to Watch
Apr 9th
Posted by Channel 1 Networks in Hotshots Movie Reviews
“A Joy to Watch”
“Hotshots” looks at a movie!
BAD WORDS is an edgy comedy starring Jason Bateman as Guy Trilby, a man who is competing in the national Spelling Bee competition even though he is 40 years old.
Bateman also directed this movie, which has been called an “instant hit.”
You see, Guy discovered a loophole in the rules which allows him to compete against youngsters and be able to spell obscure words correctly, which doesn’t please the directors of the competition, much less the parents of the other kids on whom the parents have spent money for tutors.
At the beginning of the movie, Guy says, “I’m not that good at a lot of stuff,” but his job as a proofreader allows him to be good at spelling a lot of words.
So, we see Guy compete at the 15th annual regional Spelling Bee in his hometown of Columbus, Ohio, where he shows that he has no remorse in intimidating fellow competitors to get them too flustered to even stand up and try to spell the next word.
One of the rules is that contestants have to be sponsored by a nationally recognized news service, and Guy’s sponsor is an Internet organization whose writer, Jenny Widgeon, is accompanying Guy in order to write a story about him.
However, Guy is very reticent with Jenny, and he won’t talk about himself, which causes Jenny to call in some favors and get a background check on him, which reveals some interesting information.
So, Guy and Jenny move on to the national competition in California, where his reputation has preceded him, and the director, Dr. Bernice Deagan, played by Allison Janey, tries to thwart Guy in every way she can.
She arranges for Guy’s hotel accommodation to be a supply closet, and even though the words given to the competitors are supposed to be random and fair, she manages to secretly circumvent that and tells the angry parents and her subordinates that she will step down as director if Guy makes it to the final round.
Meanwhile, Guy has taken an interest in an Indian boy in the competition, mainly because the kid has a hotel room with a minibar, the kid is eager to become friends with Guy, maybe too eager, and Guy teaches the kid some lessons about life.
BAD WORDS is a joy to watch.
I’m Dan Culberson and this is “Hotshots.”
Bad Words – Movie Trailer
Apr 8th
Posted by Channel 1 Networks in Movie Trailers
Jason Bateman makes his feature directorial debut with the subversive comedy Bad Words. Mr. Bateman stars as Guy Trilby, a 40-year-old who finds a loophole in the rules of The Golden Quill national spelling bee and decides to cause trouble by hijacking the competition. Contest officials, outraged parents, and overly ambitious 8th graders are no match for Guy, as he ruthlessly crushes their dreams of victory and fame. As a reporter (Kathryn Hahn of We’re the Millers) attempts to discover his true motivation, Guy finds himself forging an unlikely alliance with a competitor: awkward 10-year-old Chaitanya (Rohan Chand of Homeland), who is completely unfazed by Guy’s take-no-prisoners approach to life.