Look, I love the themes at play here (America Ferrera’s whole “fuck the patriarchy” speech is probably the highlight of the movie), but you can’t just have a bunch of actors saying what the theme is over and over again and pretend it’s a movie. It needs characters… or, ya know, a story.
I wish I liked it more. The actors are giving it their all, the production design is great, and you can see tiny bits of Greta Gerwig’s…
Literally just 9 to 5 but with three bosses instead of one…
Every once in a while there’s a great line read by Charlie Day, but for the most part it’s just a bland, early 2010’s comedy complete with casual racism and jokes about sexual assault. Also, Kevin Spacey is here playing an absolute creep - which means he’s not only not acting but is just unpleasant to watch. Would not reccomend.
I grew up in the South. I went to church every Sunday. I attended a Christian school for the first eighteen years of my life. And, I gotta say, having moved far away from all of that in the years since - this movie is fucking hilarious to me. Of course, it's terrible. Of course, it's brainwashing. Of course, these people are absolute hypocrites doing the very same things they claim their "enemies" in the Middle-East are doing. But having…
Sometimes I feel like a crazy person when watching this film. While there's any number of movies out there on which my opinion differs considerably from that of general audiences, there's no other movie that I love this much while also being this reviled by critics and audiences upon release. Seriously, this is one of my very favorite movies and it's got a 55% on Rotten Tomatoes.
But for those who don't know (which is probably a lot of people…
