The Emperor's New Clone

You know the film industry is in trouble when an obscure Swedish comedy from the year 2000, which itself ripped off the time loop concept from the far greater Groundhog Day, gets an American remake by a director responsible for one of last year's worst films. At least Naken treated us to some funny side characters and a hot moment with former Playboy playmate Victoria Silvstedt.

Naked is the movie equivalent of picturing someone nude and then asking them to put their clothes back on when reality doesn't fit the fantasy. A total waste of time. The Anti-Christ of metaphysical comedies. An embarrassing suckfest. The bottom of the barrel. A movie so bad, it makes Adam…

It's Marlon Waynes time, in other words it's time for the director who made some of the worst comedies like both The Haunted House movies and Fifty Shades Of Black to curse us with another bad one....but this one isn't actually bad surprisingly. It might be hard to believe but this isn't horrendous film, talk about an improvement! When I saw this was going to be made by this guy I thought one of the spots in my Top 50 worst films of 2017 was going to be taken but somehow it passed that. Marlon Waynes was actually not too bad in this one, I mean it wasn't his best performance but there was definitely effort put into it unlike…

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Maybe my expectations were super low and that helped it, but I liked Netflix's latest comedy film. Unlike Ricky Gervais' Super Correspondents or Kevin James' True Memoirs of an International Assassin or Adam Sandlers' barrage of hastily made Netflix films (although I at least somewhat liked Ridiculous 6), Marlon Wayans' Naked feels like there was actual thought put into. I actually chuckled at a Netflix comedy.

You see, Netflix is quick to greenlight things from what I've heard, especially when a notable name is attached. they're also very lenient during production, pretty much letting the people who make the film do whatever they want. Ricky Gervais and Adam Sandler have used this…

Time-Loop Scenario Stripped of Interest

"Naked" is a lazy rip-off a time-loop movie, not only of "Groundhog Day" (1993), the gold standard of the genre, but it's also an English-language remake of the Swedish version "Naken" (2000), which I haven't seen but also doesn't appear to be held in high regard. "Source Code" (2011), "Edge of Tomorrow" (2014), "Happy Death Day" (2017), the "Russian Doll" series, and "Palm Springs" (2020) have all done interesting things with this specific time-travel concept, including doing better than "Naked" the whodunnit of a crime ("Source Code" and "Happy Death Day") and an improved rom-com ("Groundhog Day" and "Palm Springs," heck even "The Map of Tiny Perfect Things" (2021)). So, what's supposed to be special…

Uma decepção pra quem esperava uma super bomba, Naked é no máximo um estalinho

A nota zero no Rotten era um sinal pra mim. 50 Tons de Preto (2016), tem 7% e é possivelmente um dos piores que eu vi na vida. Mesmo assim fui lá e vi. Resultado, perdi tempo vendo um Feitiço do Tempo (1993) piorado. O diferencial é o protagonista pelado, mas chega uma hora que isso fica irrelevante na narrativa (não sei como conseguiram essa proeza, mas o resultado foi esse). Desde os primeiros minutos o filme lança qual vai ser a moral que o protagonista deve aprender. Infelizmente, isso também é deixado de lado com tempo e tudo fica super confuso, porque nem a coerência…

Time-Loop Scenario Stripped of Interest

"Naked" is a lazy rip-off a time-loop movie, not only of "Groundhog Day" (1993), the gold standard of the genre, but it's also an English-language remake of the Swedish version "Naken" (2000), which I haven't seen but also doesn't appear to be held in high regard. "Source Code" (2011), "Edge of Tomorrow" (2014), "Happy Death Day" (2017), the "Russian Doll" series, and "Palm Springs" (2020) have all done interesting things with this specific time-travel concept, including doing better than "Naked" the whodunnit of a crime ("Source Code" and "Happy Death Day") and an improved rom-com ("Groundhog Day" and "Palm Springs," heck even "The Map of Tiny Perfect Things" (2021)). So, what's supposed to be special…