Mall security guard Ronnie Barnhardt is called into action to stop a flasher from turning shopper's paradise into his personal peep show. But when Barnhardt can't bring the culprit to justice, a surly police detective is recruited to close the case.
Seth Rogen Ray Liotta Anna Faris Michael Peña Dan Bakkedahl Jesse Plemons John Yuan Matt Yuan Celia Weston Collette Wolfe Randy Gambill Alston Brown Cody Midthunder Debra-Jayne Brown Aziz Ansari Eddie Rouse Patton Oswalt Lauren Miller Rafael Herrera Ben Best William Sterchi Robbie Hill Marlon Cunningham Danny McBride Miloš Milićević Antonia DeNardo Danielle Martin David House Fran Martone Show All…
Marty P. Ewing Thomas Tull William Fay Donald De Line Jon Jashni Andrew Haas Ravi D. Mehta Jon Romano
Observar y Reportar, (In)Seguridad, O Segurança Fora de Controle, Ronnie la Gaffe, Cuidado con el guardia, 옵져브 앤 리포트
One of the most misunderstood, undervalued, politically-driven and counter-capitalist tragicomedies of the twenty-first century.
I saw the Man
Doesn't excuse itself from the uneven rhythms of the more mainstream Apatow bubble but maybe the nastiest indictment of toxic, thwarted masculinity to be put in front of an unwitting audience in a long time. Implicates every single character in its Venn Diagram of poisonous male privilege and attendant violence and sexism, consumerist oblivion, and class condescension. The women get the worst, which they're taught to expect and demand. Kind of awesome.
Moments here and there, but it reminds me so much of an era/style of comedy that I pretended to like for so long and now that I am older I can simply and honestly say: not for me!
"i thought this was gonna be kinda funny but it's actually kinda sad."
all of jody hill's comedy occupies this very specific, uncomfortable observational intimacy of a kind of thwarted american masculinity that is absurd, pathetic and terrifying all at once and it works pretty perfectly for a movie that is essentially Joker but for every person i know who's ever wanted to be a cop. it’s an eerily accurate depiction and way darker and more violent than i expected due to the look and tone which isn’t much different than the typical studio comedy from the period and i guess only serves the point of the character study even more lol
Ahead of it's time, a perfect character study of every failed cop, military drop out and open carry to Walmart dipshit.
A mall cop's obsession with catching a pervert. That's pretty much the plot of Jody Hill's Observe and Report. We find somewhat medicated, Seth Rogen as the obsessive mall cop. He's everything you would expect in a Jody Hill movie. He's a loser. He lives with his alcoholic mother. He has no filter. He doesn't know how to read body language from the opposite sex. He suffers from anger management issues. However, through Hill's sharp writing, and Rogen's naturally ability to play the pathetic anti-hero loser; Observe and Report makes me laugh until I almost pass out.
Rogen has supporting help with the super stud talking, Michael Pena. He talks like a mackdaddy pimp. Anna Faris puts the sass in…
A deep psychological character study in disguise as an absurdist comedy, "Observe and Report" is a heightened, darkly funny portrait of a man with severe narcissism, played terrifically by Seth Rogen, in one of his best performances.
Observe and Report is your typical underdog story executed in the most unconventional manner. Despite its fair share of cliches and cheese, Observe and Report has all the necessary ingredients and risk-taking factors to guarantee 90 minutes of good time with a strong ensemble performance and a rather offbeat storyline.
Observe and Report is impressive with its perfect mixture of an outlandish premise and a rather grounded backbone of a humane story. An nobody finding own worth through crazy adventures is not ground breaking by any chance, yet director Jody Hill's incentive to hammer home a sexually charged mystery solving procedure with a coming-of-age undercurrent and an almost sitcom-ish approach paid off tremendously, thanks to both Hill's unconventional choices plot…
Quite possibly one of the greatest dark comedies of all time. An absolutely scathing (& at times horrifying) satire of toxic masculinity & of those who want to be cops for nothing besides the power trips they get to have.
"I need to accept that there's no more free coffee, not now, not ever" -Ronnie Barnhardt,
What if you're not actually special?
We all secretly think we are but most of us are just the Ronnie Barnhardts of the world, clutching to minor accomplishments in our lives, blaming the world for everything, and willfully making ourselves ignorant to the reality of the community around us. The satire of the white guy who gets everything he wants is starting to become played out but at the time this is an excellent response to the American Beauty style sadness fest on typical American ennui.
This film's dark humor made me uncomfortable more than once and I feel like that is the goal…
