Monday, April 13, 2015

The Interview

Evan Goldberg & Seth Rogan – 2014 – USA

This really must be one of the worst films of the year.  The only reason I can’t say so decisively is because I see so few films.  I didn’t laugh once.  James Franco is an actor I’ve always liked a lot, but he is not funny, and when he deliberately tries to yuk it up, he’s even less funny.  Seth Rogan phones in another of his awkward-hip-befuddled-chubby-guy roles.  His go-to laugh-getter always seems to involve the removal of his clothes.  Not a bad premise at all, and in the right hands it could have been a biting satire more along the lines of Tropic Thunder (2007) or The Dictator (2012), but as it is, it’s just embarrassingly unfunny and uninteresting; not remotely worth all the brouhaha surrounding it at the epicenter of the Sony hacking scandal.

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