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…

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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…

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…

No, I did not mistakenly watch this instead of rewatching the Mike Leigh banger. And it's ironic that my dad just selected this one to play without even reading the synopsis or asking (amplified by Simon's recent watch of Naked). Marlon Wayans's Naked is essentially a cheap imitation of Groundhog Day, but instead of repeating the same day, it's reliving the same hour—which always starts with him waking up naked in an unknown elevator. Wayans actually tries to go for some bits of drama here—lifted a bit by Regina Hall and Dennis Haybert, and I've always thought he was a underappreciated physical actor when it comes to comedic antics. Switching down the almost overdone concept to an hourly basis does allow for Wayans…