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BROTHERS SOLOMON, the Bob Odenkirk/Will Forte comedy screens!!!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. Odenkirk rocks, I never explored ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT, but I'm sure that'll happen soon, so I'll give a pass to Forte. So, this flick, BROTHERS SOLOMON, is high on my "interest" chart, but the below review isn't very complimentary. Keep in mind that this is a test screening of an unfinished film. I think they just finished photography a month or so ago, so this is probably the first assemblage, the first cut. All genres rely on great timing, but it's especially true of comedies. The right timing can make or break a comedy like no other genre. So, keep that in mind while reading the below! Enjoy!
Guys,
I was able to catch a work in progress screening of ‘The Brothers Solomon,’ with Will Forte and Will Arnett down in Orange County last night. Let me say first off I am a plant since someone in the talkback always has to make that claim (I hope it makes things easier for them). Well, I’m not sure where exactly where to start, but this movie is like a poor man’s ‘Dumb and Dumber.’ It tries to be ‘Dumb and Dumber.’ It tries to be ‘Anchorman.’ ‘Night at the Roxbury.’ Hell, the list goes on. It even tries to be ‘Dumb and Dumberer.’ And while I haven’t seen that film in its entirety, it isn’t even that. I didn’t really like the two main characters (I guess one is the main star from Arrested Development – but I have never seen the show – hear it’s great though) and for every funny scene they had four or five flat ones preceding it. It’s almost as if they know there jokes are bad, and they try even harder the next scene to make up for it. And halfway through I started drifting off thinking about better movies such as the ones mentioned above. “I’m kind of a big deal…”
Anywho, the movie is about two dimwitted, nearly incapable and possibly retarded brothers who are unlucky with girls. Like really bad. Like they can’t even pay to get laid. We open with one of the brothers picking up a date and then smooching the dad as a sign of respect. And the other is paying for women’s groceries in hopes of scoring a phone number. I was hooked at that point and then the story came into play where their father is terminally ill and his last dying wish is to be a grandfather. So the two go off on a very unfunny adventure trying to impregnate large women, attempt to adopt a child together, and eventually find a surrogate mother which takes up the entire second and third act. So it’s really about the two brothers trying to become adults, grow up, bond, etc. And the only thing that kept it going was Chi Mcbride’s performance as the surrogate mother’s boyfriend. He was hilarious but unfortunately just a side gag character who pops up for a laugh every now and then.
The soundtrack and feel of the movie makes it try to be a 80’s comedy, and I would say they could salvage something out of this mess by cutting out some of the middle to pick up the pace a little, but that would only make the 88 minute movie a 75 minute one. The girl I was with enjoyed the movie and gave it a high rating, which I was appalled by only because she hated ‘Anchorman’ but somehow found enjoyment in this doomed to be direct to VHS (not worthy of DVD) excuse for a motion picture. I mean, movies like these are the reason the box office is in a slump. But I would also like to point out the girl I was with hated ‘Kiss Kiss Bang Bang’ (one of my favs from ’05) and said she would never watch this movie again nor recommend it nor pay to see it. But it’s still a ‘very good’ movie. I know. I don’t get it either. The test screeners must be scratching their heads right now.
So, all in all, this movie was pretty terrible. I love comedies with little to no plot, but they need to be funny enough to carry me to the end. This movie had me for about five minutes. Best of luck to Screen Gems (The studio best known for the’ Underworld’ and ‘Resident Evil’ flicks) on what may be their first comedy (someone please correct me if I’m wrong.)
Please call me Trinkie…
Jo will get it. That is all.
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you looked at the wrong credit on IMDB
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Let's not make it easier for the real plants, dude.
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He's reviewing a comedy, which he compares unfavorably to Dumb and Dumber, and then admits to not having seen that movie in its enirety. That is where I stopped reading.
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Clearly.
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he wrote he hadn't seen Arrested Development. This man doesn't know funny.
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I am conflicted. Tie goes to Arnett. I'm legitimately excited about this one.
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Are you just letting random homeless mental patients have the full run of the website to ramble about what random thoughts occur to them while they are riding out the DT's curled up in a ball on the floor of the theater or what? At least have the slightest pretense of editorial overview for christ's sake.
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clearly showed that the reviewer compared the movie to "Dumb and Dumber", which he presumably saw all of, and also to "Dumb and DumberER", the sequel, which he did not see all of. That *raises* his credibility with me, for who would want to see all of "Dumb and Dumberer"? (I didn't see any of it.) I think if the reviewer saw even a little bit of the sequel, he can get enough of an idea of it to know when something else reminds him of it.
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It amazes me that this film got made. This script was terrible. Terrible. Forte can't write dialogue to save his life and his characters are 2 dimensional idiot doofuses which were cool maybe 10 years ago when Jim Carrey had to play those kind of characters. I'm not surprised the reviewer thought this sucked. What I'm most surprised with is that the brain dead idiots in Hollywoodland don't realize that a guy like Forte is a talentless hack. He can't even do a decent Bush on SNL.
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Damn you Michael Bay
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This was reviewed 3 weeks ago on the site.
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Not sure why, I just got a negative vibe. Let me just staight for the record: any movie, ANY movie, that stars Gob "C'MON!" Bluth, will be seen by yours truly.
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Oct 14, 2006 10:33:08 AM CDT
If you don't know when to use THEIR instead of THERE...
by danielkurland
He definitely seemed to not know what he was talking about. Also the fact that he doesn't appreciate Will Arnett is one of the bigger problems here, which is fine, but he's obviously going to be one of the selling points of the movies. I'm not going to gage my anticipation for this film based on this review, but in my eyes Forte, Odenkirk, and Arnett are all fantastic. The reviews one redeeming point is that he was a fan of "Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang".
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I'm willing to take your word that the script is terrible, but Arnett has gone on record to say that it is one of the funniest things that he has ever read. Now I don't know if made he was trying to build good word of mouth, but a guy that has obviously read every episode of "Arrested Development" and to STILL say this is one of the funniest things that he has read, is certainly a serious statement.
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If Arnett is going on record saying that I think he's trying to convince himself he just slept with the prom queen when in reality he just fucked the shy awkward girl who keeps a scrapbook full of pictures of Clay Aiken on her at all times to be closer to Clay.
Forte is a horrible writer from what I've seen. Everytime the guy gets work, I scratch my head. I'll give him that once in awhile he can act funny in a sketch...but as a writer he sucks. Unless someone was brought in to punch this script up after the draft I read, I can't imagine it's gotten better being brought to life. -
will arnett is in arrested development, not will forte. easy mistake to make i guess, but one that can be just as easily fixed by watching the show. (even after its demise i feel i have to pimp it)
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ok i have yet to hear a thing about this flick. but i have a SERIOUSLY hard time believing Bob Odenkirk and Will Arnett got together to make another Dumb and Dumber. I mean, jesus, really?
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