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Capone says OBSERVE AND REPORT has no moral center and is the most important comedy in years!!!
Hey, everyone. Capone in Chicago here.
The absolute best way to see OBSERVE AND REPORT is to stop reading this or any other review of it. I'm not so much concerned about critics giving away too much of the plot or the best lines. No, it's more about letting slip just how messed up this depraved piece of perfection truly is. I saw this film for the first time at SXSW, and I struggled trying to remember the last time a film, especially one with this many laughs, really shook me up like this. This is a film with no moral compass, no mercy, and with a soul as dark and poisoned as the most hardened criminal. This is a movie borne of a crack whore mother and absent father (who probably could have been any one of a dozen men), given to be raised by a 300-pound uncle who spent his days beating this movie and his nights committing unspeakable acts. This film ran away from home at 15, and turned tricks with businessmen in alleys stinking of long-dead fish and rat shit, while catching every festering disease in the book. Now imagine, if you can, what a movie like this would look like, smell like; then imagine this movie is a comedy.
All comparisons between OBSERVE AND REPORT and TAXI DRIVER are way off. If you feel compelled to stand this film up against a Scorsese/De Niro collaboration, make it THE KING OF COMEDY, for the plain and simple reason that Seth Rogen's mall security officer Ronnie Barnhardt wants to be accepted and loved by the masses as a hero, as a symbol of respect. He's not like Travis Bickle's loner at all, other than the occasional voiceover. No, Ronnie is an all-too-perfect personification of a person we see every day doing a job that most dog wouldn't crap on, and he has convinced himself that he is doing something important. (All of this said, I do like the recent references to FALLING DOWN, which might be the film that this one most resembles.)
As obvious as it might seem to cast Rogen in the part of a mall copy, there is nothing predictable about his performance. Gone is the loose and chuckling dude from KNOCKED UP and PINEAPPLE EXPRESS. Ronnie is tightly wound, unfriendly, socially clunky, even a tad on the racist side. Above all else, he's angry. You can't blame him entirely, especially when you meet his perpetually drunk mother (the sex kitten in a house coat Celia Weston) who has no qualms about blaming Ronnie's special needs growing up for his father leaving the family. As the head of mall security, Ronnie has gathered a group of underlings that are mind bogglingly wrong for their line of work, including the Yuen twins (played by the real-life Yuan twins), suffering from a bad case of gun envy, and Michael Peña's mad creation Dennis. Peña gets so lost in this character that I didn't recognize him at first behind his sunglasses and under his tight curly hair. His gangsta lisp sent me right over the edge. There's one early scene in which Peña emits some sort of sound from his nose, combined with a generic gang sign that had me screaming.
Aside from his mother, the women in Ronnie's life play a huge part in the character's development. On the one hand we have the object of his obsession, Brandi (Anna Faris, playing as horrible a character as I have ever seen her play), a certified self-centered twat, who is repulsed by Ronnie until a parking lot flasher terrifies her to such a degree that she looks to him for protection and comfort. Ronnie takes advantage by asking her out on a date--a date that is permanently burned in my brain as ending in one of the most horrific moments of any movie ever. Yet somehow, some very clever writing saves the scene, the entire production for that matter, from going straight to hell. And it all works because Faris has no fear. Brandi's counterpoint is Nell (Collette Wolfe), who works at a coffee and danish hellhole in the mall. Nell is sweet, sensitive and easily demoralized by her evil boss (played by the demon known as Patton Oswalt). She's such a good person that, of course, Ronnie barely notices her.
Ronnie's nemesis is Detective Harrison (Ray Liotta), who is constantly challenged by Ronnie for his thoroughness on capturing the flasher and on a string of overnight robberies at the mall. Ronnie has his suspicions about who committed these crimes, but strangely enough his list of suspects happens to coincide with those mall employees that Ronnie doesn't like, including the great Aziz Ansari, who in one scene engages in an exchange of about 97 "fuck you's" with Ronnie that goes far beyond funny into another realm of consciousness.
I'll admit with my head held high that I wasn't a big fan of writer-director Jody Hill's first film, the underground discovery THE FOOT FIST WAY. But I think that reaction was as much a product of inflated expectations after literally years of hearing how funny the damn thing was. And while I recognized the brilliance of star Danny McBride (who has a shocking cameo on OBSERVE AND REPORT) immediately, it was tough for me to really love the film. In fact, when I met Hill for the first time at SXSW last month, the first thing he said to me was, "You hated Foot Fist Way." To which I responded, "That's not true; I had a healthy disrespect for it." That said, I worship the HBO series Hill and McBride did, "Eastbound and Down," and hope they get to do a second season.
But Hill's thought process is pulling together the plot and characters of OBSERVE AND REPORT is a little terrifying to me. He seemed like a nice enough man, but somewhere in the darkest corners of his fractured soul lies an angry and hateful person who spews his foul seed on the page and somehow convinced a big-time studio to give him money to make this demonic spoo. Or at least that's one explanation. The other is that Hill wanted to make a film that had never been made before about characters that few directors want to know, let alone examine at this level. Hill is sick of the safe style of R-rated comedies. Let's face it, even the most depraved of the Apatow-style films appeal to mass audiences because they have such big hearts. (Where would Rogen be were it not for his lovable KNOCKED UP/ZACK AND MIRI cuddle-bear charm?) OBSERVE AND REPORT couldn't give a fuck about heart. It's the polar opposite of a film that you all know I adore, I LOVE YOU, MAN, a movie built around the idea that everyone in it is a likable man or woman. Hill's movie couldn't give two shits whether you like his characters. In fact, it works out better for everyone if you don't like them.
Hill and his team have thrown down the glove as a challenge to other filmmakers to not simply try harder or be more vulgar. He wants them to make something different. OBSERVE AND REPORT still has lots of big laughs; there at least three or four moments where it's very likely the audience you see it with will cheer; and in the end, you will actually feel pretty great. But it will be because you have witnessed something you've never seen before, or at least something you haven't seen in a long time. This is a film that will stick to your lungs like a glorious cancer, forcing you to think about it every time you breathe. That's the best kind of filmmaking. Don't be scared; go see this twisted masterpiece.
-- Capone
capone@aintitcoolmail.com
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Apr 10, 2009 7:23:51 AM CDT
second season of Eastbound and Down already greenlighted
by walrusholder
Geez do you movie people and you TV people ever talk to each other?
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Danny McBride is a unique talent.
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or seventh by now?
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I'm going to love it. But since when did Kevin James get so screwed up?
Oh wait, all the Paul Blart jokes were run into ground on SNL. -
Where's the Gilbert Gottfried vehicle?!?
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Toss, with pot.
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But I LOVED Superbad........will I like this?
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Apr 10, 2009 7:57:28 AM CDT
Danny Mcbride is so ugly and annoying I can't look at him
by unapatowzing
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...Sounds like the exact opposite of what I need right now. Which is not to say its not a well made film or anything. I'm just really sick of profane comedy. I'm burned out by it. And this looks like it would kill me. The past few years have been so totally Apatowed that it's just... over. It's done man. I need someone to release a comedy that manages to be hilarious for being genuinely clever, without anyone saying 'fuck' even once. You know, like used to exist? But it will take a real game changer for that stuff to happen anymore, because the playing field is so dominated by a particular breed of comedian. I feel like we're in a comedy era like when the third urban legend movie came out... and its just like, we've seen this done so many times... let's do something different. And it needs to happen soon or my comedy loving heart will die.
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All I've heard about from this movie is a scene where Rogen rapes a drunk Brandi. I'm assuming by your report that this doesn't ruin the movie for you?
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Although I still think this style of comedy can create some great laughs I find myself laughing less and less. 2008 to me was one of the worst years for comedy in a long time, so I'm really hoping that some of these movies like Year One are solid funny films, you have to accept the guys running the show right now aren't going to change so I'm going to have to root for them to produce something good till there time passes.
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I'm delighted to see a movie returning to classic, old-fashioned comedy. Remember in His Girl Friday, when Cary Grant beat Rosalind Russell unconscious and then came in her hair? Hilarious! They just don't make 'em like they used to. Another thing I'm pleased to see is mall cop jokes. Finally! Someone has the balls to expose the mall security profession as a refuge for losers unable to function in normal society. I just feel fortunate to be able to witness originality of this magnitude unfolding before my awestruck eyes.
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there was a truly vicious comedy, instead of one that is all hype. If I remember from the redband trailer, she wakes up from the date rape and asks him why he is stopping. Sounds like the rest of the film is that fucked up AND funny. Good to hear.
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because all her latest movies, her lips are ridiculous- then i saw an interview for this after shooting, and her lips are normal. what gives? i wouldn't say she has no fear, i'd just say she's good at the loud drunk bimbo.
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would you consider bad santa as vile and heartless, capone? or did the billy bob/kid relationship eventually have too much heart. i can watch bad santa any day of the year....what about this one?
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is he Jonah Hill's brother? i'm not trying to be funny, i seriously don't know- but it would explain the sucess of this little circle of friends...nepotism.
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...but it sure smells good!
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And now I can't wait!!
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Apr 10, 2009 9:18:44 AM CDT
Reading Capone's reviews makes me feel like an English teacher
by garbageman33
"No Capone, it's in, not is. Did you proofread this at all? Maybe next time have your mom look at it before you turn it in, mmm-kay?"
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I got it, I just didn't get it. As far as Danny McBride as the next "comedy genius", I don't see it. But I did enjoy his role in Pineapple Express as one of the best things in that movie.
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and there are people who dont Charlie Chaplin funny at all. there are folks who hate the marx bros. I would love if someone some studio made comedies which were silly, had slapstick, some visual gags. but wasnt purile at the same time. The problem with both knocked up and superbad. is that they both lacked the charm and the aweetness of the original american pie. I fucking hated knocked up. I really did. none of the main characters were remotely sweet. Katherine Heigl in an atrocious actress. and is one of worst comedy actress I have ever seen. I couldnt get through superbad. That was such an unffun knock off of American pie. I was willing to give it a go. Then jonah hill turned up and spent the first 20 mins spewing out bad language. I just couldnt watch that film anymore. what an obnoxious little twerp. I dont know if I will pay money(9 euros 30) to see I love you man. 21st century hollywood comedy really stinks. I will no longer pay money to see sandler movies. the man just plays the same role in nearly every film.
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He's from Concord/Charlotte, NC.
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I Love You Man is worth watching just for the work of Paul Rudd.
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Comedy is SO subjective...but if you can find THE PARTY with Peter Sellers you will witness true genius. The film is dated as hell in parts... but the wordless, all physical comedy of Sellers (playing an east Indian)at the swank Hollywood Hills party is aomething to behold. I've never seen any comedy performance that touches it.
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Bananas and its futuristic cousin, Sleeper. All Woody comedic gold.
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"The most important comedy in years"? To whom? In what ways? Blow me.
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Probably my favorite comedy. A sadly overlooked film with a truly stellar performance by Sellers. Birdy Num Num, indeed.
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Saw it a few days ago and noticed the Ronnie/Rorschach
Not only are their personalities similar (both are a bit racist, psychotic, bi-polar, antiheroes) but the two fight scenes, one between Ronnie and the gangbangers, the other between Ronnie and an entire police report, were nearly a shot by shot remakes from Watchmen. That even includes the broken bone. Good Stuff! -
the first review that actually made me want to go see a movie I was on the fence about. Bravo.
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I had my wife watch it recently and I've never heard her laugh so hard in my life. Glad to hear someone appreciates it as much.
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AKA Landry from Friday Night Lights. I've seen him in the trailers, and he's the only reason that I've even considered seeing this shitfest.
Eastbound and Down is the bomb, tho. -
sometimes ya gotta call a chump out.
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eastbound and down yes...good to see patton working
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Thirty days have September, October, June and February. All the rest have 29. Except my brother, who got six months.
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I saw this film the other night and the laughs are few and far between, and I'm a guy that can enjoy a good comedy, dark or otherwise. The movie is just full of awkward moments that are neither funny or very interesting. I thought this movie was going to be Paul Blart for adults, it doesn't even really live up to that. It almost has a very similar premise, but falls short of doing anything with it other than show a lot, and I mean a lot of penis; and say everyone's favorite adult word, Fuck, more times than Scarface. I usually like Seth Rogen and Anna Faris, but neither character anything to offer. The trailer is the best part of the movie as far as comedy goes. In fact many of the scenes that are funny in the trailer, do not actually come across funny in the movie at all. I've seen quite a few comedies recently and the thing I walk away saying more often than not is, "That scrip needed more work." This movie needs loads of work. I mean the end of this movie will have you shouting, "What-the-fuck-ever." I mean if they would have set this movie up as taking place in a parallel universe where stupidity and insanity are rewarded, then I guess it would work. The only way that this movie is the most important comedy in years is if it was the perfect way to show not how to make a comedy.
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1) The tone is all over the place. This is largely because the actors don't make a lot of comedic choices, instead adjusting their characters to the tone of an individual scene. This allows some scenes to feel edgy and uncomfortable (typical Jody Hill) while others play goofy and stylized like something out of a Jared Hess comedy. 2) Nell and Ronnie's relationship is completely off. Does not work at all. Does not belong in this movie.
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is that there isn't much content-wise that is shocking on its own. It's all stuff that has been seen before, albeit not in one movie. But Jody Hill is an absolute magician in making everything stick with you. He's not reinventing the wheel, but he IS reinventing the use of it. It's like he discovered that the wheel is a great tool of astrophysics. This is the ultimate amalgam comedy and I still can't stop talking/thinking about it 10 days after seeing it.
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Burn After Reading. OK, so it may not be fuck-free (pretty much the exact opposite in fact) but you want intelligent, witty comedy? Coen brothers, can't miss.
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Maybe Paul Blart is playing in the theater next door, you idiots.
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This site used to have some sort of non bias reviews, now it all reads like ads for the movie studios. It feels like we are all part of one giant focus group, being herded like sheep. It is very clear that this site has been taken over by the big wigs.
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as long as enough of us know it though, maybe our bitching will make a difference.
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and its dated alright. Sellars was a great comedian. The pink panther movies. though dated. still have some of the best physical and verbal stuff in screen comedy and I suppose he was a great actor. but he was a contemptable human being. who showed complete and utter disregard for those around him. Sir bob Monkhouse once recalled that peter sellars was due to appears on celebrity squares and had agreed to come on and was booked on as a guest. 10 minutes to showtime no peter sellars. 5 minutes. still no peter sellars. The audience had been seated the other guests had arrived. monkhouse was frantic. Calls were placed with sellars agent. none had come back. 2 secs to airtime. Monkhouse gets a call from peter sellars whose on a cruise ship heading towards the carribean. Sellars said that appologised to MOnkhouse and said that he decided to take his family on cruise and holiday. Monkhouse never worked with him again. Sellars war with Barry norman is the stuff of legend.
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We have to keep bitching, brother.
Its the only hope we have.
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It's probably half as good as The Wedding Crashers.
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ROLE MODELS. While mildly amusing, it no where near lived up to the hype. I find this more often than not with comedies, so I'm a little jadded toward this one being 'The most important comedy in years.' Right. I'll catch it on DVD and let ya know.
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I blame Borat. Holy crap, he just dumped in a paper bag and presented it to a woman who has done nothing but be nice and understanding to him. That's hilarious! This sounds like more of the same.
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The most offensive parts about them, they aren't funny. Apatow is not a comedy god, he's just a hack. He peaked with 40 year old Virgin, and hasn't made anything remotely funny since. Needless to say, I doubt this is the most important comedy in years.
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I can see why Hill went with him: because of the name. But a ballsier actor would have done more service to the part. And I think this film is a brother to a film like "Bad Santa", but I can see the "King of New York" comparisons.
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Dargis at NYT gets it. This movie is just as contrived as MALL COP while masking its cruelest explorations for the same reasons, not to make art or push against some political/social norm, but to sell a ticket and make the studio bosses happy...Mall Crisis? Call Security. Then Again, Maybe Not. By MANOHLA DARGIS...If you thought Abu Ghraib was a laugh riot then you might love “Observe and Report,” a potentially brilliant conceptual comedy that fizzles because its writer and director, Jody Hill, doesn’t have the guts to go with his spleen...Not that Ronnie is a race hater. However technically inept a director, Mr. Hill is too professionally shrewd to barrel down that particular road and, more important, there are too many studio dollars at stake here to risk outraging ethnic and racial groups that could be buying movie tickets. Instead Mr. Hill thumbs his nose at politically correct sensibilities, notably through Ronnie’s mutually hostile encounters with a mall worker he calls Saddamn (Aziz Ansari), who has taken a restraining order out against him. Mr. Hill defuses this potentially explosive relationship by making sure that Saddamn is as verbally hostile as his foe, which I guess is supposed to make it O.K. to laugh when Ronnie punches him in the face...Comedy is often cruel, of course, but before 1968, the year the movie rating system was instituted, directors couldn’t squeeze laughs from the suggestion of date rape, as Mr. Hill TRIES to do here. Like action and horror filmmakers, comedy directors now push hard against social norms with characters who deploy expletives, bodily fluids and increasing brutality. Mr. Hill has upped the ante in this extreme comedy scene not only by creating a working-class, bipolar bully who lives with his alcoholic mother, but also by asking us to laugh at this pathetic soul — and his miserably constrained life — as well as at the violence he wreaks. The dolts in “Dumb and Dumber” had hearts of gold. Ronnie has a gun...Mr. Hill says his movie was inspired by “Taxi Driver,” a self-flattering comparison. Like those of Travis Bickle, Ronnie’s delusions of grandeur do end in a paroxysm of blood. Yet while Martin Scorsese might be overly fond of screen violence, part of what makes that film profound and memorable is how the thrill of violence, its seduction, is always in play with a palpable moral revulsion. No such dialectic informs “Observe and Report,” which exploits Ronnie and his brutality for laughs. This lack of critique might make the movie seem daring. But it’s hard to see what is so bold about a film that, much like the world outside the theater, turns the pain and humiliation of other people into a consumable spectacle...You could argue, I suppose, that there is no real difference between Ronnie shooting an unarmed man and a comic who throws a custard pie in another person’s kisser: they both make (some) audiences laugh. To insist on that difference is, among other things, to introduce politics and morality into the conversation, and, really, who wants that when you’re watching a Seth Rogen flick? It’s far better and certainly easier, as the old movie theater slogan put it, to sit back and relax and enjoy the show. That, after all, is precisely what Hollywood banks on each time it manufactures a new entertainment for a public that — as the stupid, violent characters who hold up a mirror to that public indicate — it views with contempt.
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Cruel, unfunny and yet somehow perversely fascinating, "Observe and Report" must have been conceived as "Taxi Driver" with belly laughs and its hero as a hybrid of Norman Bates and Barney Fife. But given that the ordinarily likable Seth Rogen is portraying a delusional, violent, sexist, racist, homophobic mall cop with a bipolar disorder, there's not really a lot to laugh at...Written and directed by Jody Hill (whose "Eastbound & Down" is an HBO attraction), "Observe and Report" is the logical conclusion of the loser comedy, losers of the like portrayed by Adam Sandler, Jim Carrey and the late Chris Farley. Those losers, however, always possess some modicum of charm. Not Ronnie Barnhardt (Rogen), a guy who can be described only by using an epithet not allowed in this newspaper...As head of security at the Forest Ridge Mall, Ronnie personifies every rent-a-cop cliche, from the delusions of grandeur, to the gun-nuttiness, to a burning desire to be a real detective. He sexually harasses Brandi (Anna Faris), the makeup-counter clerk. When a flasher shows up in the mall parking lot, Ronnie decides to take over the case...Not only is Ronnie a character you don't care about, he's a character you don't want to be around. If he were your neighbor, you'd move. Ronnie's liqueur-swilling mother (Celia Weston) tells him his father left because of Ronnie's "special needs"; during an interview at the police academy, he admits that he's bipolar...Inspired by love for Brandi, he decides to go off his meds. At that point, what happens is so ridiculously violent and uncomedic that you just might laugh, but only out of shock and awe. Of course, it's not as if Wes Craven had directed "Observe and Report." But if he had, it would have been a lot funnier.-- John Anderson (April 10, 2009)
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L.A. TIMES REVIEW By BETSY SHARKEY, Film Critic, April 10, 2009..."Observe and Report" is filled with enough F-bombs to take out the entire midsection of the country; it has its own special brand of unrestrained head-bashing, stomach-kicking, nightstick-beating brutality that echoes rogue guerrillas anywhere....Sex? Not really. There are a couple of boom-boom scenes with an energetic Anna Faris as Brandi, the sexy cosmetics counter clerk, but they're not designed to satisfy anyone on-screen or off (if you're wondering, "Then what's the point?"...There are clichés to be found at every kiosk including a daily, extended F-bomb face-off with Middle Eastern merchant Saddamn (Aziz Ansari). And the free cup of joe anytime from the food court where a smitten Nell (Collette Wolfe) waits for him to swing by each day...But now we get back to the underlying question: Just what exactly is the point of all the hitting of hot buttons, pushing the genre envelope, sending the profanity meter off the charts, going postal on the violence?...This is definitely not a parody, so that's out. And if Hill and Rogen are shooting for satire, they don't get there -- that's an art form that requires more sophisticated thinking. You can do raunchy, un-PC but thought-provoking comedy brilliantly (or at least very, very well) as Sacha Baron Cohen proved with "Borat" on the big screen and "Da Ali G Show" on the small...It turns out that the film's title, "Observe and Report," is the credo of mall cops everywhere -- they can look and take notes but they can't actually do anything. Put another way, they are ultimately impotent and expendable. Which is not a bad way to think of this movie. It heaps piles of bad, crazy stuff at our feet then walks away. There is no moral to this story, and there's not much comedy either.
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This is not an Apatow movie.
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Just got back....very dark movie. Did I like it? not really. Dislike it? no, although some parts annoyed me. Total aside here: when was the last time you fucked a gal with her bra on??? I hate movies that do that. Anyway, it was a movie I have to think about....
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so much love for this movie on this site, I have yet to see one negative review here pick apart the real problems in this film. Everyone is just glowing about it. very strange.
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this is a funny and original movie, but it's not a masterpiece. talk about creating unrealistic expectations.
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I just got back from seeing this and I was surprised at how unfunny it was. About 25 minutes in I chuckled, I think. Then I consciously decided to count how many times I would laugh during the movie (already a bad sign if I'm internally debating this during the movie). End result: 3 times. I think the problem for me was that the Rogen character is so oblivious to everything around him, but not in an endearing "root for him" way, but in a real annoying way. I don't mind the casting here, as I feel everyone here did as good of a job as they could with the material. As far as one-liners and quotables, I'm at a loss to find any. And I defy any TBer's to find them, either. All and all, not very good. Cheers.
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Good. Far from great. To be perfectly honest, I found Pineapple Express to be way funnier and much more violent. There are some genuinely funny and original moments in O&R, but I guess I just expected more.
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Are you guys so bent up about? Quoting journalists who over-analyze every aspect of a weekend comedy? Pointing to the un-PC aspects of the film(which misses the point, I doubt Hill made the film to please the critical masses). So what it's not traditional comedy? ....Who NEEDS to be told what's funny/what's not? My girlfriend laughed out-loud..several times, especially at Michael Pena's character. Seth Rogen was hilarious, I know thousands of chicks like Anna Faris's character, and the violence was so over-the-top, that it was meant to be funny..If you absolutely NEED a reason to see this, I'll tell you what will happen...halfway thru the film, something's gonna happen to you....your back will relax, your asshole will un-loosen, and you will BEGIN TO LAUGH. If that don't work, go see the VERY cliched' Hayden Pantierere teen-film that I saw during the trailers if that floats your 'enlightened' boat.....
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Apr 10, 2009 10:00:26 PM CDT
I Wasn't Going To Give This Crap The Time Of Day Until This Revi
by kissman24
...and now I'm considering seeing it. Apparently, the movie is more interesting than any trailer I've seen of it. I may have to view this thing now -- all because of Capone.
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I'm sick and tired of the excuse being thrown around that because it's a comedy, it's beyond the scrutiny of review and critique. Since when did moviegoers check their spines at the ticket booth? There is no movie beyond review, that's what makes good movies good and bad movies bad. We as patrons ultimately dictate whether the good movies get made, or whether we get more Fast And Furious movies. And I'm sorry, but if Observe And Report becomes the barometer for comedy, then we're all in a lot of trouble.
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Apr 11, 2009 2:59:24 AM CDT
Wow! Seth Rogen stars in ANOTHER offensive gag film?
by theghostwholurks
I positively SHOCKED! Can't WAIT to see his Green Hornet... I'll bet he lights his farts. >:P
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A movie aimed at fanboy geeks who mistake shock for edge. Capone has the most obvious take, and the most typical. But it explains the over-praise for Hill and his cruel unfunny ouevre. Best Dargis line:
"Yet while Martin Scorsese might be overly fond of screen violence, part of what makes that film profound and memorable is how the thrill of violence, its seduction, is always in play with a palpable moral revulsion. No such dialectic informs “Observe and Report,” which exploits Ronnie and his brutality for laughs. This lack of critique might make the movie seem daring. But it’s hard to see what is so bold about a film that, much like the world outside the theater, turns the pain and humiliation of other people into a consumable spectacle..." -
that many people laughing histerically and yelling out "what the fuck?" at the same time. Between the date rape scene and the skate board vengeance scene, there was some overly bizarre things in this flick. I truly wonder if there was a shooting script or if this was pure improv because (as has been stated before) this movie has no center.
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