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Don't Wanna Miss This Party
SIngli6 - wrote on 02/25/21
Armando Iannucci's last foray into cinema, the beloved In the Loop, was to my mind a failure. It could never find a way to utilize the more extensive visual language a comedy film of the cinema affords. You have the full attention of your audience, a big screen to fill with all sorts of rich detail, and a big budget; don't just stretch a 30-minute script to feature length.
Well, Iannucci has listened and learned. Sight gags do not inundate the film, but rather come precisely when they need to. Even though Iannucci's greatest strength lies in his obscene verbosity, never does the film's pace fall sacrifice to extended scenes of characters insulting or intimidating each other. Rather they are dispersed between moments of outrageously dark physical comedy that deliberately get darker until you reach an ending both satisfying and disgusting in its brutality. Not only is this the funniest film I have seen in years, it may rank as one of my all time favourite comedies.
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Filmhaus - wrote on 04/20/21 at 12:18 PM CT
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This movie was truly amazing! I laughed my butt off, especially at Steve Buscemi & Jeffrey Tambor's interactions.
Did you also like "Wag the Dog" and "In the Loop"?
