Rating of
2/4
Funny People...not so funny.
thebakerboyhimself - wrote on 08/04/09
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“Funny People” rated R for language, crude sexual humor, some sexuality
Starring—Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen, Leslie Mann
Directed by—Judd Apatow
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Funny People is to comedians what Boiler Room, Madmen, and Glenn Gary Glenn Ross is to Salesmen.
Welcome to the lonesome, cruel, and sometimes friendless world of stand-up comedy where singles and couples alike sit with arms crossed a midst a dim-lit, smoke filled room waiting to laugh AT you, not with you.
I love a good comedy. I love to laugh as much as the next movie lover, but a lot of this movie I did not find particularly funny. Most of the jokes were more distasteful than hilarious. There were some moments that were laugh-out-loud funny, but for the most part the comedy was just not up my alley. I can laugh at a good joke. I sometimes find myself laughing at a bad joke. These were just straight up raunchy with content about sex and parts of the human anatomy. However, it did have some really good music!
This indeed was a long, slow rollercoaster-type blend of comedy and drama, a number of cameos, and a weird fight scene at the end with a subplot which somewhat derails the storyline in a sad turn of events which you may not be expecting. At least with a rollercoaster, there is an ending. This ride lasted more than two hours.
Meet George Simmons: the much admired, photogenic, guitar-strumming, piano-playing, famous aging, stand-up comic playboy who is diagnosed with a not-so-funny inoperable disease and attempts to overcome this diagnosis with experimental prescribed medication. Enter Ira Wright, a struggling comedian, who runs into the famous comic through happenstance and is offered a job as his personal assistant and joke writer.
In this movie, George Simmons is a very lonely guy who, when faced with the news of his imminent and untimely death, begins to rearrange his priorities and enjoy life and relationships rather than attempt to fill a void with stuff and materialistic non-sense.
This movie raises some very good questions: How do you know if you played life right? What would be the indicators? How would you react if the doctors told you that you would be dead in less than a year? Would you be ready to hear the truth about how you’ve actually been treating others? Would they be friendly to you only because you were dying, or because you had treated them like a friend? What are your priorities? Do you value relationships? I once heard it put like this, “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”
When we think we’ve brought the world laughter with our generosity, it’s not an easy thing to be told who we really are, and how selfish we’ve become, but that’s just my humble opinion.
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