Had the chance to watch some more movies with the family Saturday night, which gave me the chance to push “Run Fatboy Run” on ‘em.
I’d already seen this Brit comedy, starring Simon Pegg and the gorgeous Thandie Newton, but I knew it would be a hit with everyone else, and it was. The critics panned it due to a lack of originality, but what the critics don’t get is that funny and entertaining will always be funny and entertaining.
Let me give you an example. Ricky Gervais starred in the second movie we watched, called “Ghost Town,” and it was fairly original, and the critics mostly loved it.
However, after 30 minutes, we had to end it. It was neither funny nor entertaining, and just like the British version of The Office is a pain to watch, Gervais was almost criminal in this film. He was so unfunny, he should be held civilly liable.
It’s not that the movie was that bad. The idea … potentially great. Greg Kinnear … way better generally than he came off here. It was Gervais. Bottom line: The next movie he’s in, you’ll have to pay ME to watch.
Every moderately seemingly humorous scene happens IN the first 30 minutes, and they’re all accounted for in the trailer. I can’t recommend enough that you skip this movie. C-SPAN is more entertaining.
Yikes.
Finally, we watched “You Don’t Mess With The Zohan,” which is one of Adam Sandler’s worst movies … but still funny and still entertaining. The Happy Madison crew won’t make you any smarter, but even this effort was funnier in the first two minutes than “Ghost Town” was in 30.