Comedies usually begin with a funeral and end with a wedding. Tragedies begin with weddings and end with death. Paddleton (on Netflix) starts with bosom buddies bonding and ends with bereavement. The film never hides what it is, a gentle …
Category: comedy
“Wonder Park”: The Failure of STEM Animation
Wonder Park is probably the first STEM inspired animated film. Science, Technology, Engineering and Math fills its every frame with whirligigs, loop the loops, mini rockets, calculations, precise measurements, blue prints and gears— lots and lots of gears. Wonder Park …
“Fighting With My Family”: Gets the Family Participation Prize
WWE wrestling is like family: loud, rowdy, always fighting and making up, a love fest and a mutual admiration society, filled with their own alliances and jealousies, celebrated successes and commiserated failures. It is exactly like its movie Fighting With …
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“How to Train Your Dragon 3: The Hidden World”: The Series Finds It’s Final Beauty and Sadness
How to Train Your Dragon 3: The Hidden World, finishes the series where it should properly end— at farewell. Farewell to adolescence, to the old Hiccup and Toothless bond and dance, to home, country and enemies. That farewell fusing into …
“Isnt It Romantic”: A Perfect Meta-some Romance
There can be no romantic comedy nowadays without some kind of meta attachment, without a winking nod to its existence in the film catalog. Isn’t It Romantic, starring curvy delight Rebel Wilson, is the ultimate mega romcom title, and if …
“What Men Want” Is Not to See This
The lesson here is take actors who can do comedy and believably fill in the blank character spaces over comedians who improvise lines for the laughs but can’t handle the character down time. Henson is the clear winner here. All …
“The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part”: Everything Is Not as Awesome but Still OKAY
The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part is a comic reflection and anti-reflection of its first part. For Everything Is Awesome song verse there is a Everything Is Not Awesome one, a wise and cynical Emmet to balance the goofy …
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