A tabloid inspired comedy with Judy Greer, Bryan Cranston, John Goodman, and Sean Astin definitely has enough to make me curious, but reviews like this make it sound like the movie leans harder into quirk than payoff.
Still, I always find movies like this interesting because the cast alone makes you wonder if the material can rise above the gimmick.
Does this sound like the kind of messy dark comedy you would still give a shot, or does a review like this kill your interest right away?
by gamersecret2
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Judy would make an excellent Harley Quinn
Judy: “You’re not my supervisor!”
Bryan: “Malcolm! Go to your room and don’t come out until you’re old!”
Wtf even is this cast? Also, I remember when this chili finger incident happened, my friends and I used to joke about it all the time.
EDIT:
>That’s how I felt watching Edd Benda and Stephen Helstad’s relentlessly quirky dark comedy receiving its world premiere at SXSW. You can tell that the filmmakers were going for a Coen Brothers vibe with this comically violent crime tale set in the Midwest (Wisconsin, specifically). With the exception of the central character played by Judy Greer, all the figures onscreen display the sort of eccentricities that are presumably meant to be either amusing or endearing but instead simply come across as odd.
I’d watch this.
Yeah, there’s not a lot of meat in this story.