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Not that funny

posted 8 years ago by Movie-Jay
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I feel like the critical consensus does this movie harm by billing it as a charming laugh riot. It's really a sad portrait of modern day life where we laugh so that we may not cry.

I liked it to the degree that I liked it, but "The Handmaiden", "Things to Come" and "Les Innocentes" were vastly superior foreign films of 2016 that all got passed over for this awkward dramedy that I found to be okay but kind of a one trick pony.

[–] bastille-852-731547 8 years ago

I agree. It wasn't depressing, but it wasn't funny. I couldn't tell whether or not they were trying to go for the tone of more of a comedy or drama. When it's hard to tell that, there's a problem with the structure of the film. I also thought the pranks were generally not that interesting, but the tree man suit and the handcuffs were almost cringe-worthy.