20131116: Comedy Review--InAPPropriate Comedy

InAPPropriate Comedy

1. Fundamentals, reception.
1. American live action feature length film, 2013, rated R, 83 minutes, comedy.
2. IMDB: 2.8/10.0 from 1,344 audience ratings.
3. Rotten Tomatoes:  0% on the meter (impressive); 31% liked it from 2,472 audience ratings.
4. Netflix: 2.3/5.0 from 6,038 audience ratings.
5. Directed by: Vince Offer.
6. Starring: Rob Schneider as J.D./Psychologist, Michelle Rodriguez as Harriet, Adrien Brody as Flirty Harry, Lindsay Lohan as Marilyn, Ari Shaffir as The Amazing Racist.


2. Setup and Plot
1. The arc connecting these segments is of an entitled jerk invoking apps on a tablet. Each app takes us to a segment, which is actually a collection of vignettes.  The various segments are visited briefly, then returned to repeatedly.


2. Above the Grate: Lindsey Lohan dressed as Marilyn Monroe for the draft up the skirt scene from The Seven Year Itch. This was the only more or less OK segment.  Watching the paparazzi getting blown away was a nice touch.


3. Flirty Harry.  Adrien Brody as a foul-mouthed detective, Dirty Harry style, who is also gay, and makes plentiful direct references to performance of sex acts.  The grossness of this segment comes more from people eating with their mouths open all the while spewing food on each other and on the ground.


4. Blackass: This goes on and on, in various pieces.  Some are about blacks having embarrassing or extremely painful experiences.  Others were about blacks feeling entitled to terrorize white people.  The vignette about the three black babysitters terrorizing the young white mother was particularly not funny.  The segment about a huge black man terrorizing white yuppies was just as repellent.  Nothing about this collection was funny.  'The hookup' was the worst.  The black man at an abortion clinic pulls out a coat hanger, and wants 100 USD to do a substitute abortion.  Amazing.  Amazingly bad, that is.


5. The Amazing Racist.  A Jewish racist (who acts in the film like he's a white Christian) shows all sorts of anti-PC behaviour and language, and gets all sorts of direct payback for it.  He's anti-black, anti-Mexican, anti-Asian, anti-Jewish, anti-you-name-it.  None of this is funny, and the amount of payback he gets never seems to be enough. 'Free one-way boat rides' were for blacks to be taken back to Africa was long and utterly disgusting.  As always, no laughs despite a barrage of cliches.


6. The Porno Review: JD and Harriet act as movie reviewers for pornographic films.  The first film that they review is a particularly bad fake Asian film.  There is no nudity, much less sex.  Again, there are no funny moments.  The second film, 'Sperm Lake' was no better.  Its subject was  about kidnapping, terrorizing an individual, and gang rape.  That is, men raping a single man.


7. Psychology World: Rob Schneider's other role is as a shrink who listens to a closet nymphomaniac.  He finds her boring, and takes her prescription medicine to alleviate his boredom, much to his subsequent bad health reaction.


8. TYNS (Things You Will Never See): are indeed things you will never see.  I never laughed, either.


3. Conclusions
1. One line summary:  Lots of cliches and stereotypes, but no laughs; skip this one.
2. One star of five


4. Scores
1. Cinematography: 8/10 OK.


2. Sound: 9/10 OK.


3. Acting: 5/10 The actors followed the screenplay, as far as I could see, but there were no outstanding performances.


4. Screenplay: 0/10 Failed as a comedy.  Failed as a satire.  It was not funny.  It was not enlightening.