Hey! I be Uncapie!
Funniest movie I've seen all year!
Three friends, Seth, Evan and Fogell aka Mclovin (Jonah Hill, Michael Cera and Christopher Mintz-Plasse) embark on a quest to hook up with their dreamgirls before high school graduation, summer begins, and Seth and Evan go their separate ways.
Seth and Evan's plan is to score teenage alcohol, get their lady friends Jules and Becca(Emma Stone and Martha McIssac) drunk and have their way with them at a party with the aid of Fogell creating a fake i.d. Rocket scientist as this guy is, he creates the perfect Hawaiian i.d. with one slight imperfection.
Getting a girl drunk so you can get laid. Who hasn't tried this in high school or college? But, its easier said than done and this is where their adventure begins meeting a cornucopia of bizarre characters along the way towards their objective.
Every generation has its teen comedy. "American Graffiti," "The Pom Pom Girls," "Animal House", "Fast Times At Ridgemont High", "Knocked Up" and even "Dazed And Confused." This film falls into that category.
Its a basic plot filled with smart and funny writing, likeable characters, a great 70's inspired soundtrack and good acting(Especially from Christopher Mint-Plasse in his debut acting role). Standout performances are also from Bill Hader from "Saturday Night Live" and Seth Rogen(Who also co-wrote the script) who play two wildly insane cops that interfere with our heroes journey adding to the fun of this film.
Oh, and there's a ton of dick jokes with sick illustrations.
Somehow, I don't think I'll ever get the image of George Washington standing with the American flag in one hand and a nine foot cock in the other out of my mind every time I look at a dollar bill or a quarter. The bastards.
Overall, the movie is a lot of fun, though it does slow down in the middle, but picks right back up to an action filled finale. I got the feeling that the film makers had a lot of fun making this movie and I wouldn't doubt that there was a lot of ad lib that was thrown into the mix.
No doubt; "Superbad" is just fun all around. Even the end credit drawings had me laughing. Check it out and have a good time.
"ALL OF YOU! LISEN TO WHAT I HAVE TO SAY! YOU MUST BELIEVE ME! EVERY MAN, WOMAN AND CHILD'S LIFE IS AT STAKE IF YOU SEE THIS FILM!"
Its trash!
So what? The hot red head is in it. So what? James Bond is in it.
What about telling a good story? Is it too much to ask?
They fail miserably here.
I've seen this film before. You've seen this film before. Talk about deja vu.
Three times. No, four if you count "The Puppet Masters (which this movie resembles more than the original Jack Finney story, "Sleep No More") - that had Donald Sutherland in it who was in the 1978 remake along with Veronica Cartwright who was in this new version as victim of her wife-beating husband.
Five, if you count the 1956 version called, "The Brain Eaters (again, a version of "The Puppet Masters") directed by Bruno ViSota, starring Ed Nelson...and a minor role by Leonard Nimoy...who was in the 1978 remake...which had a cameo by Kevin McCarthy from the original 1956 version.
There's not even a chase sequence through the Bronson Caves as in the 1956 original version. There's not even a cool character actor like Whit Bissell it in either.
And the music sucks.
What possessed the brainiacs at Warner Brothers to remake a movie everyone has seen and knows the outcome?
I have come to the conclusion that the Warner Brothers personnel and executives are pod people and they're out to get us. All of us.
They produce a film with their WB logo on it, hypnotizing the audience as they munch on their popcorn or Red Vines, occasionally taking a sip from their Mega-Jumbo $5.00 coke. During the course of the movie's run, we slowly start to fall asleep at the plot, though the characters in the film can't.
They know if they do, they become "one-of-them."
While we're in a slumber, Warner Brothers executives walk down the aisles placing seed pods underneath our seats. These pods replicate our bodies, destroying the original. We leave the theater as lobotomized mannequins wondering what we just saw.
Okay, granted the cool opening spacecraft crash was good, but one scene does not make a good film. From then on out, its just the same rehash we've all seen before.
This movie was in the can for over a year due to the shoddy directing of Oliver Hirschbiegel. James McTeigue, who was the second unit/action director(The "Matrix" series of films) was brought in to try and salvage what he could with this film - you can clearly see the two distinctive styles of directing within the film.
McTeigue does the best he can with what he had to work with, but did anyone read the script first? I mean, who the hell wrote this? Stevie Wonder?
Plot holes you could drive a truck through.
The acting? They could have phoned it in. Sure, Daniel Craig is more subdued in this film. It's Nicole Kidman's star vehicle. And yes, she does look good.
But, it would have been a much better vehicle had they reversed the roles and let Craig play "Dr. Bennell." But, I wasn't in on the casting. Then again, this film wouldn't have been made unless Nicole Kidman said "yes" to that $20 million dollar paycheck. I would too.
I'm advising you, for your own sanity, "DON'T SEE THIS MOVIE"! Or, better yet, see a good film at a multi-plex and sneak into "The Invasion."
Little Jimmy Grimaldi saw it, so did Uncle Ira and they were never the same.
And for God's sake, don't fall asleep because...
"THEY'RE HERE ALREADY! YOU'RE NEXT! YOU'RE NEXT!"
Uncapie
Santa Mira, California
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