Funny People

Funny People

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Funny People

Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen, Leslie Mann, Eric Bana, Jonah Hill

Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen and Leslie Mann star in this seriously funny film from writer-director Judd Apatow (The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Knocked Up). When famous comedian George Simmons (Sandler) is gi...( read more  read more... )ven a second chance at a new beginning, he and his assistant, a struggling comedian, Ira (Rogen), return to the places and people that matter most…including the stand-up spots that gave him his start and the girl that got away (Mann). Co-starring Jonah Hill, Eric Bana and Jason Schwartzman, it’s the film critics cheer is "uproariously funny!" (Sonny Bunch, The Washington Times)

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  • December 22, 2009
    It was an okay movie with some laugh out loud scenes. I think Leslie Mann is actually a funny chick; loved her in Knocked Up and thought she was good in here as well. Her daughters are so adorable! I love the curly hair. Back to the movie, Adam Sandler and Seth Rogen worked well ...( read more)together. I think the title fit very well with the film itself. It's somewhat of a sweet, sad, and funny movie all together.
  • December 22, 2009
    Hmmmm..... a shot of dark humor from Adam Sandler - and its not half bad. Going back to the classic Stand up Routine which made EVERYONE in this movie famous (even Eric Bana, but not Eminem)

    But its full of dirty jokes, and if you're not into those - it is pretty excessive. I go...( read more)t tired of the same d***s and blow job jokes, but the movie really gets going in the latter part where relationships are strained and everyone collides for a blow up - did particulary well by Eric Bana as the typical Australian. Eminems and Ray Romano's short scene was excellent, crude and bloody wonderful.

    It was good to see all the stand up comedians and everything going on, but they really needed to improve on the material past the dirty sex jokes - but since it is an Apatow movie, what did you expect?


    Watch it once, cringe, laugh or whatever and move on. Needless to say, its not for everyone.
  • December 21, 2009
    I enjoyed it, good little movie
  • December 17, 2009
    I thought Funny People was pretty effective as a comedy, but it has a lot of problems. The drama is more or less terrible. Most of the characters' attempts at earning our sympathy or generating pathos are gratingly overdone; note the repeated use of swoony acoustic guitar, or the...( read more) oversaturated "heavenly" camerawork, clearly meant to tug at a viewer's heartstrings. These techniques are about as sophisticated as your average car insurance commercial. Maybe it would have been stronger if it wasn't related to us through a protagonist as bad as Ira, who represents a truly rancid if surprisingly real bro-nerd hybrid. I don't think this is necessarily a fault of Rogen's, but instead Apatow's, giving audiences an easier main character to relate to that's a lot less spiny (and frankly less interesting) than Adam Sandler's. Sandler sort of seems lost in this performance. When he charged someone as abjectly unfunny as Ira to write his jokes for him, and his concurrent arch reception to each one, I thought there would be some sort of reveal in the end tearing down modern comedy - where the seasoned veteran tells the upstart punk how worthless his skills truly are. Not so. Ira's CONSTANT barrage of penis and testicle jokes are not frowned upon, but revered, by the film and presumably most of its audience.

    Which sort of brings me to my greatest ponderance about this movie. Is this a stealth indictment of modern-day standup, or a veneration? The scene early on with Aziz Ansari seems to be an easy, though wickedly funny, parody of Dane Cook...or is it? Are we supposed to appreciate it at face value? The fact that Apatow is making a movie around him brings me to fear the worst. The rest of the humor is about half a step above his material. George Simmons is meant to seem like the sleeping dragon amidst the rest of the performers, but he's not exactly bringing much to the table either except a goofy voice. Is all the shitty standup here to make a point? It's a shame that this aspect of the movie is so unclear, because the rest of Funny People is actually really, you know, funny. Judd Apatow has a talent for organic situational humor, even if his standup is terrible (at least delivered through other actors). And strange as this may sound, Apatow has a surprising ability for working with and writing dialogue for children, unlike basically every other director in Hollywood.

    Anyway, Funny People is inconsistent, which may have been a tolerable flaw if it wasn't 140 minutes long. This is a bloated vanity project, still suffused with some great touches by a wickedly clever writer who can't tear himself away from the dick jokes. Watchable, and certainly something that others will enjoy, but not to my tastes.
  • December 15, 2009
    Biggest disappointment movie I've seen this year.

    When i see the line up of actors playing in this movie I think funny movie...when I see who the director is, i think funny movie...this was so far from a funny movie...
    It was this dark drama about this lonely comedian. Didn't li...( read more)ke this at all.
  • January 5, 2010
    Didn't like this movie as well as I thought I would, being a Sandler fan. I was a bit disappointed.
  • January 5, 2010
    Pretty dark in its comedy that it's almost tragic. Wathced the unrated verison of this & goddamn was it long..2 & a half fucking hours. Would have been better if Sandler's character just died instead of recovering & trying to reconcile w/ his ex. Biggest problem is none of the...( read more)se characters are very likable
  • January 5, 2010
    not that funny, but entertaining
  • January 5, 2010
    Its an ok movie, the could've done better, especially with this big actors
  • January 5, 2010
    Definately Judd Apatow's worst comedy yet! Too serious and not that funny.

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