The Bubble’s toothless showbiz satire mostly comes down to teasing its characters for their entitlement and self-importance.
Throughout, Judd Apatow dramatizes the ideal of community with an almost Eastwoodian sense of rapture.
It perfectly communicates the surreal hell of what the original production of The Room must have been like.
Third time’s the charm for Shout! Factory, whose new Blu-ray box set marks the show’s most definitive home-video release yet.
The script doesn’t revel in Amy’s quite harmless flaws, or at least examine them in the spirit of benevolence.
Commingling industry shoptalk with introspective insights and wrangling testimonials, the film casts an incredibly wide net.
An outsized A&E Biography episode coursing with the strident urgency typical to anyone convinced they have something new to say on a long since played-out topic.
This release will give admirers much to pore over, while arming its deterrents with more “white people problems” fodder (“My Blu-ray’s too stuffed!”).
HBO has stacked the deck in this show’s favor by delivering a decidedly obsessive-friendly package.
This Is 40 is frequently funny, but those laughs are just the highlights of a deadening parade of similarly toned jokes.
Mansome is only fitfully amusing and doesn’t have anything particularly interesting to say.
Writers are often told that, when it comes to the act of artistic creation, one should “write what you know.”
Is that Coke or a 40 dangling from Charlize’s fingers? What might a Pomeranian have to do with all this?
Zookeeper is essentially a surreally awful Happy Madison Productions version of Mad Libs.
Florescent lights. Combination locks. Clueless parents. Clueless teachers. Clueless friends. Paranoia. Alienation. Hormones. Zits.
Judd Apatow’s reflexive, cock-obsessed picture posits Adam Sandler’s infantilism as something like an eternal condition.
You Don’t Mess with the Zohan is, against all odds, Adam Sandler’s funniest effort in close to a decade.
The film gets some mileage out of mocking fatuous biopic conventions.
The ridiculous amount of extras packed into this two-disc DVD expand on the film’s humor to unprecedented degrees.
Relatability is certainly a key component of Knocked Up’s inherent appeal.