This animated film isn’t willing to completely face the bleakness of its allegory of faith versus skepticism.
The film’s expected rehash of recent pop-culture totems is accompanied by a novel attention to millennial-centric debates about entitlement and identity politics.
Rogen and Goldberg’s film essentially uses a major global issue to cheaply dress up what is two hours of hit-and-miss erection jokes.
It’s disheartening that, despite some half-hearted overtures toward shifting the comedy paradigm, the filmmakers make little attempt to expand their comedic palette.
Laughter and inanity go hand in hand in Akiva Schaffer’s The Watch.
Hockey is reduced to a sport in which team play and goals are mere diversions from main-event fist fights in Goon.
The film marginally succeeds at perverting superhero stereotypes, and now it receives an expectedly excellent transfer from Sony.
The clashing of tones and mixture of genres point to a lack of a singular artist at the wheel.
There’s plenty here to keep the attention of both stoners and cinephiles alike.
Among its achievements, Pineapple Express makes explicit much of the underlying homoeroticism inherent in the buddy movie.
Superbad exhibits a precise understanding of young male anxieties, desires, and camaraderie.