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PAULA PELL 2020

basically the Couples Retreat of this friend group, but more laughs because PELL

Saying "Laika's worst movie" is like saying "VEEP's least funny episode"-- there's an unfairly high bar in place. It's lightweight considering Laika's normal fare, but it's gorgeously animated with a couple of terrific action sequences, and it in no way whatsoever deserved the box office drubbing it took.

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

I was going to write "genuinely the worst movie ever made" as a hyperbolic goof. Now, as I sit and think about the worst movies I've ever seen, I find myself honestly considering the possibility that it is, joking aside, the worst movie ever made. This is a glacially paced, masturbatory comedy for no one.

Charming performances, well-directed action, and a sneezy Patrick Stewart in a Led Zeppelin tee. All hail Cornish.

I'm usually allergic to biopics, but the gentility of this one won me over. Coogan and Reilly do a better job with their impressions/reenactments than 98% of actors in these biopics do.

Also a goddamn masterpiece.

A goddamn masterpiece.

Stumbled upon this on Cinemax late at night. I suspect that’s the perfect time for this. Better than I expected, with some genuine laughs and the gleeful joy of Rainn Wilson viciously murdering pre-teens for an hour.

Occasional good bits drowned out by an obscenely slow pace and a tremendously uninteresting plot.

This brand of ridiculousness, on paper, should be Very Much My Shit. Unfortunately, it aggressively, aggressively sucks.

They did it. They made the most cliched version of this movie possible. It will never be topped.