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Oh man is this a fun
movie. I liken this, in some ways, to Scott Pilgrim from last year. This
is a party of a movie and if you go in wanting to have a good time, and
not expecting Shakespeare, you will love this movie. It's awesome. Pure
awesome. Now, to get into the meat and potatoes. Seth Rogen, who I have gone on record as saying I love movies because they
don't have to feature him and I love watching comedies starring other
people, does a tremendous job. He puts the movie on his shoulders, which
have gotten rather slender for this movie. And as much as I enjoy films
not starring Seth Rogen, I really enjoyed this movie. Seth Rogen, as
Britt Reid, plays someone we've all seen in the news: the assholes who
TMZ reports on all day everyday.
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He's playing
the rich playboy who's quite a bit different from
Batman/Bruce Wayne and yet he's still Seth Rogen. And then
there's Jay Chou. If he were in every movie, he wouldn't be
in enough movies. He is equal parts MacGuyver and Bruce Lee
and he's awesome. Pure awesome. Jay Chou is a revelation in
this movie and yes his accent is tough to get through at
times and he has trouble with some speeches, but he's
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His action scenes,
his comedy scenes, his everything. He wins best actor from this
movie. But that's not all. Michel Gondry makes a movie that doesn't
generally fit into his sensibilities AT ALL but he makes it work.
The few scenes where you feel like this is Gondry making the movie
are awesome (Kato-Vision, Reid-Vision, Reid in the garage, the
flashback scene near the end). The music is awesome and works and
getting the original score back is perfection (at least for that one
scene). The nut shots fly free. The deaths fly free. The shits fly
free. This is an escape. Oh, and a great cameo
is seen in this film that if you don't spoil it beforehand, you will
love it.
There's not much to
do for some great actors in this movie. Tom Wilkinson and Christoph
Waltz don't do much at all, and I love them both. Christoph comes
off better than Tom, but Tom's in like 3 scenes total. Christoph
just didn't chew as much scenery as you will want him to. Cameron
Diaz (who I do not consider as anything more than eye-candy and even
that is stretching it these days) does nothing in this movie. It's
unfortunate because she's just there. I also wanted more from EJO
(Edward James Olmos if you're not part of the real Team Edward), but
you can't always get what you want, especially when they fill the
movie with awesome Kato scenes.
Scott Pilgrim and Green Hornet
are how you do it (forget Kick-Ass because that movie sucked so bad).
Don't pass this movie over just because you might not like Seth Rogen,
but go in for a fun adventure with two idiots and a genuine bromance
that begins when they meet. It's like Pineapple Express or Midnight Run
for superhero movies. And Jay Chou, seriously, deserves to be in
everything or deserves to sing a song at the end (just like his Nunchuks
song which is awesome in the end credits). I love this movie!
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