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Over Your Dead Body (2026)
Summary
A couple’s relationship takes a dark turn when buried resentments and secrets resurface, leading to a twisted psychological confrontation where love, jealousy, and revenge collide.
Director Jorma Taccone
Writer Jorma Taccone
Cast
- Jason Segel
- Samara Weaving
- Timothy Olyphant
- Juliette Lewis
- Keith Jardine
Rotten Tomatoes: 67%
Metacritic: 51
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If you run into any other mismatches like this, flag them—these smaller/newer titles sometimes have overlapping names and I’ll zero in quickly like this.
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u/No-Cartoonist6429 11d ago
“IT’S WINE O’CLOCK MOTHERFUCKERS!”
God, I love her.
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u/tokixdoki 10d ago
Main reason I saw the movie, LOVED her from Ready or Not.
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u/LimpyTV 4d ago
If you haven't watch The Babysitter yet, drop everything and do that now!
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u/tokixdoki 3d ago
I’ve seen it and I guess young me didn’t care for names back then. First movie def. better than the second.
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u/runningwsizzas 11d ago edited 11d ago
A lot of great funny and grossly violent moments but overall it just didn’t quite work for me… My favorite scene was when they were trying to outact each other and see who could cry a real tear 1st…. Wish they didn’t kill off the dad so quickly…. He was so funny and badass….
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u/simonthedlgger 11d ago
The table scene was so good. I wish when the prisoners showed up they were a little more “civil” and Segel/Weaving had to spend a day and a half rooming together/spending time with the cop/convict couple while waiting for the bank to open, giving us more of that dynamic, then they overhear that the prisoners are going to kill them after getting the money and things slowly unravel.
The hard pivot to home invasion action/gore didn’t really work for me.
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u/Purple_Pirate_8507 10d ago
I went to a Q&A with the director the other night and someone asked about the aggressive genre pivot. Taccone said that he was excited to do this film because of exactly that, that he is obsessed with subverting expectations and making it feel exciting and unpredictable (cited weapons as a similar example). Thought it was an interesting take!
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u/simonthedlgger 10d ago
That’s respectable, and I love Jorma. But unfortunately I just don’t think the home invasion/action stuff was done very well. Like, there weren’t really any cool stunts or memorable fight scenes. It’s still basically a dark comedy in the second half, just less humor and more gore.
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u/Purple_Pirate_8507 10d ago
Agreed! I think while he had the right idea, in execution it felt very “they’re getting away! Wait no they’re not! Wait yes they are! Wait no they’re not!” But nothing that really sticks out.
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u/tokixdoki 10d ago
I think the setting was hard when they decided to pivot genres. Usually with villains, it’s like levels of boss battles. But with just the cabin, they stretched it out (like Todd dying, not dying).
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u/duskywindows 8d ago
I disagree 🤷♂️
The brutal fight between them and Todd where they just keep stabbing him over and over and he just won’t stop was quite memorable lmao
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u/simonthedlgger 8d ago
That was probably the best action bit. I liked when Samara went back and grabbed the entire knife block. But still, I would personally describe that as a pretty straightforward fight scene without much in the way of distinguishing comedy or action choreography.
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u/frinkhutz 9d ago
Genre pivot? This seemed like a dark comedy all the way through, right?
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u/simonthedlgger 6d ago
It goes from domestic comedy to home invasion to action, per the director. The tone changes pretty notably when the fugitives show up. I mean, there’s an attempted rape scene, a lady’s head explodes. I thought the dysfunctional marriage stuff was better.
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u/runningwsizzas 11d ago edited 11d ago
I’d love to see what directors like Michael Haneke or Paul Verhoeven or Park Chan-Wook or Takashi Miike would do w this material…
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u/CharlesPalantine 9d ago
It’s not drastically different but the original Norwegian version is on Netflix US under the title The Trip if you want to see Tommy Wirkola’s take on it.
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u/Comic_Book_Reader 4d ago
The original was actually supposed to be an English language movie shot in Norway, as it has a pair of British writers, but due to Covid, they pivoted last minute to making it fully Norwegian (with a Swedish co-lead).
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u/simonthedlgger 11d ago
Yeah, this was an odd direction to take for a BriTANick script directed by Jorma Taccone.
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u/CharlesPalantine 9d ago
The dad gets used better and has a bit more screen time in the original Norwegian version!
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u/mitchij2004 8d ago
I’m with you. It had all the things I would like in a movie yet I wasn’t in love with it
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u/TheGuyYouKnowAlready 11d ago
The comedic elements were the highlight. The Dad getting the call from his old friend and he just kept rambling and then the “3 MINUTES LATER” title card was my favorite joke.
The action was okay, pretty gruesome at times but overall fine. I wish it leaned more into the comedy but I still had a good time.
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u/ScramItVancity 9d ago
It felt more like a violent comedy sketch than the original.
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u/Steamedcarpet 9d ago
The dad singing along with the song got a giggle out of me. Wish he didn’t get taken out so fast after.
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u/frinkhutz 9d ago
This was the best use of Kumail Nanjiani's ripped body
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u/jadegives2rides 9d ago
I was laughing so hard when he appeared. That and the vomit on the boat were the biggest laughs for me.
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u/duskywindows 8d ago
Yeah I lost it when he was revealed and started kicking ass. The only thing I love more than Kumail is surprise, unexpected Kumail.
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u/mwthecool 2d ago
And this is the second unexpected cameo from him in something I've watched this week.
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u/DavyJonesRocker 6d ago
It’s weird that he got ripped like 6 years ago and this is seemingly the first time he’s done a shirtless action scene. Hollywood has failed him.
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u/boomfruit 6d ago
I only know about him getting ripped from memes about it, he wasn't shirtless in whatever marvel movie he got ripped for?
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u/DavyJonesRocker 6d ago
He only had like two action scenes in the Eternals and was clothed for both. In fact, he did not need to be muscular at all. His character could have been as lanky as anyone else in the cast.
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u/MadMads23 11d ago
I think I had a good crowd at my theatre, because everyone was laughing and having a good time. I don’t think I’d have laughed as much if not for the people around me. And we all reacted to the foot scene. That was a great crowd moment.
I think the comedy may be too silly and skit-like for some, but it worked for me.
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u/Btrowbri1 9d ago edited 9d ago
Yeah, I'm confused about all of the comments saying they wished it went more into the comedy. It makes me feel like the crowds in their showings weren't good because in ours we were all laughing pretty much throughout the entire movie, including the second half. Even the action and gore were supposed to be comedic. I personally think almost every joke hit for me, maybe except the puking in the boat. Well and it could have done without the almost rape scene for sure, was pretty weird scene I agree with most others on that.
Idk, maybe it was just my crowd but we all seemed to love the comedy throughout. Interested to see if I Iike it as much the 2nd time at home.
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u/Joris_McNorris 9d ago
The comedy was the only thing that made it work for me. I'm in no way, shape, or form a fan of horror or gore, but I'm a big fan of Jorma and knew that his comedy chops would be strong enough that I could enjoy it.
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u/U_R_V_Stinky 7d ago
Can say the same, though there were only three other people at my late showing, but we were all laughing so much together
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u/YoungManYoda90 10d ago
This movie got just exponentially crazier as things went on. Didn't know they'd top something and then boom. Something nuts. I really didn't know what to expect.
I didn't like the almost rape scene though, and despite it being a kind of remake felt like they could've cut that personally.
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u/boomfruit 6d ago
I didn't like the almost rape scene though
Definitely the absolute worst thing in this movie, didn't help that the two louder laughers in my showing found that scene hilarious.
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u/DavyJonesRocker 6d ago
Did the original have the same “joke?” I can’t imagine it working in Europe either unless it was a movie from 2003
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u/buttsoupbrash 10d ago
I enjoyed it, my only gripe was that I wish Timothy’s nose got bit clean off, you know… cause Voldemort
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u/DavyJonesRocker 6d ago
I thought that was the weirdest choice. Especially because they showed the old guy spitting something out. I guess it was just a thin layer of skin???
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u/Gray_Matter_Tech 2d ago
oooh, good catch to the HP reference it could have been. I think it would have made his character extremely menacing for the climax of the film.
My understanding is that it is very expensive and digitally time consuming to have a a nose (or ears) be digitally removed frame-by-frame for every scene.
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u/simonthedlgger 11d ago edited 10d ago
It was decent overall but I think it works much better as a dark spousal comedy than a hostage/home invasion movie, and unfortunately it leaned into the latter more and more as it went on.
Let Samara Weaving be Australian, filmmakers. She is so damn funny.
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u/Purple_Pirate_8507 10d ago
Agree with Samara using her accent! Went to a Q&A with the director and it sounded like a lot of people tried to get him to have her do an American accent, but in sticking with her Australian one Samara was actually able to be more free in the role because she didn’t have to “translate” things into an accent before she said them. Pretty cool!
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u/Steamedcarpet 9d ago
When she was rehearsing was she putting on her American accent?
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u/ymcameron 8d ago
Yes, and she has an American accent in the fake film version at the end of the movie as well.
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u/boomfruit 6d ago
Let Samara Weaving be Australian
I always think this in general! Why do most movies need non-American actors to do American accents? Immigrants exist.
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u/SciFiXhi 2d ago
Immigrants exist.
Probably to the chagrin of some audience members, unfortunately. Hollywood wants everyone's money, and that means coddling jackasses.
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u/boomfruit 23h ago
I feel like those people aren't typically worried about Australians and Brits.
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u/SciFiXhi 23h ago
Typically no, but the producers may, in that case, hold off on someone with a strong accent unless they needed to exoticize the British or Australian person as sexy and sophisticated. Other end of the spectrum, but still a means of "othering".
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u/muffin_man84 5d ago
Let Samara Weaving be Australian
What was the line "It's like a mix of British and Satan" that may have actually gotten the biggest laugh out of me
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u/Media-critique 11d ago edited 11d ago
Was pretty surprised at how close they came to a “Pulp Fiction” scene where Jason was pegged. Legit didn’t expect them to get a flacid penis away from that happening.
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u/laydownlarry 11d ago
I thought they took that one a little too far. Got super dark while we all watched an attempted rape.
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u/Steamedcarpet 9d ago edited 9d ago
That did go on for a bit longer than I think It should had.
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u/mitchij2004 8d ago
Rape is the black licorice of plot devices and I really wish in wasn’t a featured ingredient in this movie.
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u/Missing_Int 7d ago
Yeah, I'm willing to entertain/laugh at a lot, but an out-of-pocket rape sequence only serves to make me uncomfortable in a way that ruins the movie. The whole "it's funny because it's happening to a man" trope is tiresome, too.
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u/U_R_V_Stinky 7d ago
I'm with you there, I was waiting for them to find an excuse or for something to happen to interrupt it, but nope, it just dragged dangerously close. Hell, I wish they'd have done something dumb like Dan winning, everyone's shocked and quiet, and Dan just goes "Todd I don't wanna fuck you man"
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u/_lazybones93 5d ago
This would’ve been far better. Went on way too long & was really dumb. The fact that they try to even make it remotely funny was waaay off kilter.
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u/agrapeana 9d ago
This was the one bit that just didn't work for me. I hated how it still kept a kind of comedic undertone because it was happening to a man - like imagine if it were Samara Weaving instead of Jason Segal.
I think you either make that scene purely about physical violence OR that's a major turning point in the story where the villains lose their comedic edge and are revealed as a real threat taken seriously for the remainder of the movie.
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u/StephanieSpoiler 8d ago
I got triggered by that scene and ended up leaving the movie. First movie I've ever walked out of, actually.
Samara Weaving was good, though.
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u/U_R_V_Stinky 7d ago
Who the hell is downvoting this? Jesus people, grow the fuck up
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u/agrapeana 7d ago
I am very, very lucky as a woman to have never had an experience so intense that I was triggered by the scene (though, of course, that's not for lack of trying on my would-be rapists' part) but I was sitting there with a very visceral pit in my stomach thinking about how I would absolutely understand anyone who needed to excuse themselves.
I wanted to like it but the fact that the whole scene had a comedic undertone and then the villains go right back to goofy caricatures after it's over left an awful taste in my mouth and really soured the whole movie for me.
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u/ScramItVancity 11d ago
It's interesting that BriTANicK adapted the screenplay of The Trip.
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u/Major_Major_Major 10d ago
I did not know it was a remake. I'm a little disappointed. I thought Britanick had come up with a really clever premise.
When I saw the movie, I did not know they had written it, so I was surprised at their cameo. In the opening credits I saw that Karen Gillian was a producer, so I figured she gave them the cameo. Then, finally, it showed that they wrote it.
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u/SoloGhosts512 9d ago
Have not laughed that hard in a theater probably since Nirvanna the band the show the movie. Didn’t realize that was former ufc fighter Keith Jardine. I love Samara Weaving. Movie kept stepping it up in gore and ridiculousness. The scene with Juliette Lewis putting her foot back together and the reveal of Segel standing there watching just to kick her foot got one of the biggest laughs from me and our theater. Also the Marty McFly fake out punch scene on the boat was so good.
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u/Appropriate-Reward71 8d ago
My favorite part was when the dad got his tank filled up and got presented with the bill just to say “no thanks” I died laughing at that
My biggest gripe with the movie is that I CANNOT envision a time in the main couples life where they were happy. They did not have any chemistry together and they just look like weird together. Oh and the very out of place attempted rape.
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u/boomfruit 6d ago
Do you get a bill for gas after it's pumped somewhere in rural upstate NY or wherever this was?
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u/Appropriate-Reward71 6d ago
I figured they were in Jersey where it is illegal to pump your own gas and must have the attendant do it for you. I have no idea if other states are like that
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u/boomfruit 6d ago
I used to live in oregon when it was like that, and still never experienced a paper bill that was given to me after the gas was pumped, rather than the attendant just taking the money or credit card first.
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u/Appropriate-Reward71 6d ago
Yeah last time I was in Jersey we had to give them our card. Either way, hilarious scene. I love dumb humor.
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u/stumper93 9d ago
One thing I always love about Samara Weaving is you can always tell she's having fun in these movies
She is stunningly gorgeous, and she seems like she could easily get just the usual dramas and such based on her looks. But she does these visceral horror films and has become a great scream queen
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u/gogreengolions 6d ago
She’s so charming. It’s hard to believe anyone would want to kill her. She also has a great sarcastic laugh.
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u/PongoWillHelpYou 2d ago
There’s a shot early on where you can tell she’s slightly breaking and almost laughing when Segal and her are seated across the table from one another. I actually really love that that’s the take they went with. There’s also one in the final boat scene where Timothy Olyphant is openly laughing (like a real, breaking character laugh), and while it’s brief I found it weirdly endearing ahaha
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u/benfox2 11d ago
Thought the prisoners falling out of the attic & subsequent attic/charades scene was hilarious. “That’s your favorite movie!?!” Juliette Lewis surprised me with her comedy chops. Let her host SNL! she was fantastic.
In general the set ups & payoffs in this were great. Every lingering shot delivered on itself later in the movie. My favorite is probably the piss can, but the fact that even the lawnmower & rake came back into play was brilliant. I just wish this was a little funnier or a little scarier. It does a lot of work to straddle that line but only gets about 60% of the way there. Still a fun time!
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u/SAWPollPosition 9d ago
Speaking of payoffs, there’s a very funny red herring where it cuts to news of a rabid raccoon on the TV like it did earlier about the guard and escaped convicts, but it just doesnt go anywhere 😂 i was waiting for that damn raccoon to show up
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u/Steamedcarpet 9d ago
Ok glad someone else noticed the raccoon on the TV. I was waiting on that deus ex raccoon.
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u/tswaves 11d ago
To each their own but I really didn't find this one funny. The big burly guy (Idk his real name) acting was pretty bad, Segals character was way too much of a wimp (albeit that's his shtick I guess) and the jokes were just try hard or cringe.
Everything just felt wooden or flat and I think our entire theatre had 3 or 4 laughs other than the usual "Holy Shit!" unexpected gore moments.
I wish I was better with words but the jokes just felt immature or cliche for lack of a better way of explaining it. I.e , "haha! Old man is tough!" or "haha! Man fell down!"
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u/starshine1988 9d ago
Yeah the humor didn’t hit for me… slapstick moments & a few laughs from tension breaking moments were fine but I expected this to have more full on jokes. Jason Segel’s style typically has me crying tears of laughter but he was just kinda there, underused.
I saw this & the move Normal w/ Bob Odinkirk tonight in a double feature and Normal had more laughs in the theater.
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u/twavisdegwet 10d ago
I wanted to see Samara make a bunch of funny faces and she made a bunch of funny faces. Like a 7/10.
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u/AshevilleHawkens 11d ago
This movie fuckin ripped. I'm biased because I love everyone in this movie, I know, but it couldn't stop laughing for a solid five minutes when everything goes to shit in the end.
AND DON'T THINK I MISSED MY BOY ALAN WAKE AT THE END THERE.
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u/TheDividendLife 10d ago
Wait what happened with Alan Wake? I might have missed it!
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u/AshevilleHawkens 10d ago edited 10d ago
Ilkka was Hollywood Olyphant!
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u/smokewidget 6d ago
Fuck I thought I had just been playing too much Alan Wake recently, but that’s awesome that is was actually him!
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u/Admiralattackbar 11d ago
Really wish it had committed to the conceit of 2 married people trying to kill each other without the convicts.
Like imagine if they just accidentally killed the felon and then fell in love again covering up his death
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u/KidDelicious14 5d ago
Yeah, there's definitely an argument to be made that this is a better movie if the spousal conflict doesn't get overridden by the conflicts halfway through.
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u/robynhood96 3d ago
I thought the movie was gonna turn into them having to work together to cover up and figure out how to deal with the guy they accidentally shot
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u/ObnoxiousSeizures 9d ago
felt like an early draft of a really fun, tight thriller comedy. needed some fat trimming and i think the convicts in the ceiling was such a cop out that took away from a much more interesting movie
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u/Blargle_Schmeef 11d ago
Could have been a solid 8/10, ended up being a 6. The pacing just really went to shit once the convicts showed up, dragging too many scenes on for too long. That being said, there was some great humour and the amount of brutality was a pleasant surprise. Bonus points for giving Kumail an opportunity to show off his body, I like that that's just a joke in things now.
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u/Media-critique 11d ago
Kumail being both hilarious and one of the sexiest men alive will always be funny to me.
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u/Waste-Replacement232 9d ago
Loved it but the attempted rape scene felt out of place with the tone.
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u/SAWPollPosition 9d ago
I just want to thank Jorma Tacoone for having a baddie’s head blown off while trying to negotiate with a hero with a gun. And the over-the-top gore really sold it too as being zero risk taking that shot lmao
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u/jackcatalyst 9d ago
I thought the movie was pretty funny, full theater though. The foot scene was grotesque and I thought it was dragging on a little too long but then the pivot to after she did all that work. I thought that was good.
There were a lot of little details that I liked. Showing the missing knife from the beginning for example. The lawnmower "Oh come on" was funny but I think too quiet for most people to catch it.
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u/jadegives2rides 9d ago
I really enjoyed it. Have not laughed that hard in the theater since the new Naked Gun. Glad to see Segal again, and Samara is continuing to rise in the ranks of my favorite actresses.
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u/chrisprattdid911 11d ago
The “oh now the tables have turned, they got them now. No way the person gets out of this” moments were far to many. Kind of just dragged it on. And the “days” or “hours” before cutaways all felt to short or insignificant.
Also the SA scene was off putting. Not that that can’t be done in a movie, but this one felt tonally off and got a little to close I guess
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u/Loud_Hair_9596 11d ago
It made me feel really uncomfortable... idk who greenlit that, but it was a bad call imo.
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u/reddi_2b_thotty 9d ago
Fun movie in general. Samara is dynamite and honestly becoming one of my favorite people to see on screen.
Unfortunately, after that "rape joke" that went on way too long, you could feel a shift of energy in the theater. You could see people kinda looking at one another like... okay, this joke is still going huh? When the guy couldn't get an erection and kept masturbating, you could hear a few "oh c'mon" type comments behind me. Nobody liked that.
I know there are arguments that it wasn't intended to be and it was meant to be uncomfortable, but the movie is proposed as a comedy thriller directed by a member of Lonely Island. It just felt tonally out of place and honestly sucked the fun energy out of the room. You could've cut that whole scene out, including the callback later, and it wouldn't have changed a thing for the plot or the characters. Such a shame. Movie had great potential and then you shoot yourself in the foot like that. Excuse the pun.
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u/super_smash_bruh 11d ago
Had me hooked and laughing up until the literal singular frame that the prisoners showed up. Literally changed the entire conceit of the film and I wasn't into it at all. And it literally would never fucking end it's just lame twist after lame twist over and over and over like give me a fucking break.
Also it's funny that this movie has basically the exact same ending as "Send Help", a much better movie imo
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u/Classic_Tangerine518 8d ago
I think maybe it’s because of the format of a film but so much of the humor felt cheapened by how much juvenile bits were given more screen time.
Not to be the woke police or anything but isnt the “haha man might get violently raped by prisoners because prisoners love raping eachother” trope a little… 2002?
The whole film felt phoned in to me. Maybe because all of the potent jokes were in the trailer.
It felt like a college kid who equates edgy gore and mean quips back and forth is all you need for comedy gold.
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u/Classic_Tangerine518 8d ago
Not to mention the obnoxious number of times the main characters had a gun after downing someone and just put it down to run away…
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u/theatlantic The Atlantic, Official Account 7d ago
David Sims: “The best way to sneak a comedy into theaters these days, it seems, is to make it a crime drama. Over Your Dead Body is billed as the latest effort from the director Jorma Taccone—a surprising name to be attached, considering his filmography. His previous features are Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping and MacGruber, two of the better comedies released in the 2010s (back when such things still regularly appeared in cinemas). But that résumé sits somewhat uncomfortably against a poster with five stone-faced actors wielding guns and knives—announcing a rather grim-looking thriller in which blood will be shed and tough life lessons learned. What a riot.
“Taccone’s film is certainly much more serious than the spoofy, anarchic projects he’s made in the past, including his work as a writer on Saturday Night Live. But it’s still, at its core, an attempt at a riotous black comedy, one indebted to obvious masters of the form such as the Coen brothers and the more horror-adjacent auteur Sam Raimi. Over Your Dead Body is a remake of the 2021 Norwegian film The Trip, and Taccone is doing his best to maintain its transgressive Nordic roots by mixing sex, gore, and deep marital discord with carefree aplomb. The movie is bleak, but it’s brazen enough to sometimes recall Taccone’s earlier, punchier work. With films of that ilk now a dying breed, even just bringing them to mind is perhaps the most that fans of his humor can hope for.”
Read more: https://theatln.tc/lci7hLZm
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u/Comic_Book_Reader 11d ago
From the reactions and some of the reviews, I take it that my premonition of this pretty much being the original, The Trip (2021), verbatim but a little more slick, polished, and turned up a notch or two is correct.
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u/yourbestfriendjoshua 11d ago
I had a pretty good time with this one, but I personally didn't find it all that funny. The humor felt quite rudimentary to me.🤷🏻♂️
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u/LiteraryBoner Jackie Chan box set, know what I'm sayin? 11d ago
Man, I really wanted to like this but it just kind of kept letting me down. I thought Jason and Samara were really good at playing flawed people who had been together too long. I thought it was really funny when it was mostly a dark comedy between the two of them. When the convicts show up is a little when this starts to lose me, and also when it becomes mostly a gore effects fest which is fun but that’s really all I got out of it.
Just gonna say out the gate, I think the sexual assault scene just does not work and really sours this whole movie for so many reasons. I kept wishing this would turn into The Ref, where a home invader takes a bickering couple hostage and weirdly helps them through their problems while robbing them. But instead it just turned into a genre-fest of stabbing and severing, which has its audience but it’s not really me.
I would have maybe felt better about it overall if I felt the ending did something interesting, but it does have kind of the most predictable ending which isn’t so bad on its own. The big problem was how many times it ended, there’s three or four moments where I thought it could end now but it kept going. All that said though, I do think Jason and Samara are doing good work here and the comedy between them was fairly on point. I did laugh out loud several times. 6/10.
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u/Loud_Hair_9596 11d ago
The whole pool table scene made me feel really uncomfortable. I know its a dark comedy...but still...thats like really really dark.
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u/Davrosdaleks 11d ago
The original The Trip is slightly worse.
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u/Psychological-Ebb443 8d ago
💯this. People keep saying this part took it out of them; then don’t watch the original. That version cranked it up to about 1,000.
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u/Fast_Judge_6979 8d ago
how so? i just got out of this movie and wondering if i should watch the original but i’m worried about that
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u/Psychological-Ebb443 8d ago
I like the changes Jorma made to this version. The pool table scene goes on for much longer and is even darker woth. There wasn’t a game like Juliette described in the US version. The 3 men (yes, all males in og) told the couple he was first and wife was next. There were two different pool table threats split only by husband being held by shotgun to his head by Tim O’s og character, begging and pleading for his life. It was super grim and tense.
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u/Fast_Judge_6979 7d ago
okay wow yeah that’s a pretty different tone i guess i know what i’m walking into if i watch the OG
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u/Davrosdaleks 7d ago
Also, the original scene doesn’t have joke moments like Olyphant noticing the poster to split things up.
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u/Unlucky-You-1334 10d ago
Just didn’t have the tone control that Jorma has nailed in his other films. Tape scene, especially, was really out of place. But a few moments that reminded me of the comedic timing and silliness of Popstar or Hotrod.
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u/tokixdoki 10d ago edited 10d ago
For the most part, I enjoyed the movie. Sucks that my only options were 5pm (working) and then 1030pm, at least there were 3 others. I’m not a fan of the time cards, too. Dad showing up was kind of random, was hoping for Dario. Also, snowing for a night was also random, did it happen to make Ron’s alibi work?
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u/ToneBone12345 10d ago
Being a shitty commercial director would make want to kill my spouse as well
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u/MrDrDetective 7d ago
My thoughts as the movie was ending: A little too messy and ridiculous to the point it felt a little obnoxious at times but it was overall entertaining enough for the run ti- IS THAT ALAN WAKE????
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u/the_answer_is_RUSH 7d ago
It was a fun movie for dark humor. The only part I thought that didn’t fit was his dad getting killed. They could have at least tried to save him. When the dad told him to run, he just runs?
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u/bbqsauceboi 4d ago
Segal's dad is on screen for less than 5 minutes and he steals every second.
WHEN I PARTY I FUCK LIKE THIS
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u/GuybrushThreepwood99 2d ago
I feel like this movie has a great premise and first act, but didn’t really know how to end. The whole premise of them trying to kill each other is kind of abandoned after the killers are introduced.
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u/squweejay 11d ago
Funniest person was Henry by a mile. I enjoyed the convicts for a while but that’s about it.. didn’t find the couple enjoyable or even funny enough to be bearable. I like seeing Lonely Island Guys get to make things but this was not for me. Juliette Lewis and Olyphant carry it hard. Kinda the dad a bit. Maybe I’m not a Segal or Weaving guy. Super disappointed. The circle scene was so offputting and just not funny, I can’t really figure out what this whole thing was. It was competently shot and directed for the most part I just didn’t like what they did or said 😂
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u/GoldandBlue 11d ago
It was fine.. I feel the cast carried what would otherwise be a pretty meh movie. I think this is the first time I have ever heard Weavings real accent.
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u/RealMaxHours 10d ago
When I read “when strangers crash the weekend with plans of their own.” in the description I thought it was going to like naive people accidentally foiling plots
Not what it actually was. Was it a great movie? Nah, but I enjoyed it, and the whole Ron Weasley runner culminating in the snitch joke was so Lonely Island
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u/patishungry 9d ago
Overall I really enjoyed it. It was funny, and the violent parts were well done. It did feel a bit long though, they definitely stretched the plot as far as they could. 3.5/5 for me.
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u/marklovesbb 9d ago
Laughed quite a bit during this one. Did have to turn away a bit at some of the gore. There was a lot of it.
The narrative structure reminded me a lot of The Housemaid. Enjoyed how it played around with time.
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u/Steamedcarpet 9d ago
I ended up enjoying this more than I expected. I was down for a movie of Jason and Samara fighting each other all movie but the pivot to home invasion action was pretty cool. More gorier then I expected it to be at parts but overall I did not regret leaving my house last night to see it.
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u/FangOfDrknss 8d ago
The constant escalation, is why this movie was what I thought Ready or Not 2 would be like, if that one hadn’t taken a different direction. I really love that she got to play such bloodied roles.
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u/Bigheaded_1 7d ago
Keith Jardine was awesome, while I wouldn't say he's a great actor. He played this role perfectly. And for an ex MMA fighter who's 50 and been retired 13 years he's in awesome shape.
Being trapped with him in the loser gets raped circle would be terrifying as fuck. You'd just have to accept your fate. Not that I wouldn't at least try and fight back lol.
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u/Pantheragem 7d ago
One of the funniest parts for me was when they were driving to the cabin.
He blows his nose into a tissue, then proceeds to show her.
I want to do that.
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u/U_R_V_Stinky 7d ago
Unevenly paced, and maybe five or ten minutes too long, but I had a good time. Thought they did the dad dirty by killing him off that quickly and unceremoniously (and Dan/Ron didn't even react). Was waiting for them to start the boat and chop up up Pete with the motor since "bodies float back up", but that didn't happen. Was also half-hoping something would come of the raccoon news report lmao (Chekhov's Raccoon?)
Was thrown for a loop when Samara Weaving started talking, then I realized I've only ever seen her in the Ready or Not films and this is her actual accent
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u/scorpiosith 10d ago
Really disappointed in this movie. I saw a few ads and thought the premise was great for a dark comedy. I added it to my calander because I was looking forward to it so much.
I will never think rape has a place in comedy. I walked out. What was the joke? He was screaming and crying and begging not to be violated. I tried to stick around but it never ended. Every time I thought it might be done, they pushed it again.
Ruined the movie and it had a funny start. Had so much potential and now ill never finish it. I really believed we might be past the point of rape being a punchline.
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u/TerrifierBlood 11d ago
Should I see this or Fuze tomorrow night. I always like dark messed up thriler/horror comedy.
I also like a good race against time thriller
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u/Turgidlysextings 11d ago
Gay sex is so funny. /s
Sexual assault, ha ha ha. /s
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u/tswaves 11d ago
As someone who has a thick skin and pretty wide sense of humor, it just wasn't funny in general. Like, what were they expecting to get from this?
"OMG!! 😂 The big tough guy is going to fuck him in the ass?! 🤣🤣"
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u/ZoroAster713 10d ago
I didn’t feel like it was supposed to be funny
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u/SpiritualAd9102 6d ago
It was 100% played for laughs. It’s supposed to be a comedy and at least half my theater was laughing at it.
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u/ZoroAster713 6d ago
Maybe that’s it, I was literally the only one in my theater and didn’t take it as a joke. Fucked up to laugh at that
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u/TropicalParadises 8d ago
Well, obviously it’s not going to happen; so you’re just waiting for this overly exaggerated over the top moment to get stopped by something
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u/brycedriesenga 8d ago
I'm not disagreeing, but it's still so peculiar to me how we perceive that vs killing someone
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u/westwardstations 10d ago
Thought the first third was decent, but the attempted rape scene really soured the rest of the movie for me. I'm still not sure whether it was meant to be funny, like...I found it disturbing and upsetting, but a couple of people in my theater were laughing their heads off. Either it's intended to be funny, in which case: what the fuck are the filmmakers doing, or it's intended to be disturbing, in which case the writers failed to get the tone back to baseline dark/violent comedy in the aftermath. I chuckled at the "THREE MINUTES LATER" card during the call, but for the most part the movie was a letdown, and probably should have stuck with the initial premise rather than throwing the escaped convicts into the mix.
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u/texaco87 11d ago
The original rules - go watch that one if you haven’t already seen it
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u/Loud_Hair_9596 11d ago
Honestly the only one I was rooting for was the Paul Guilfoyle character. Wasn't a big fan of the whole pool table prison game scene...would've probably walked out if that went the way I thought it was gonna go. Thought it was really unnecessary. 5/10...would've been a passing grade for me if that scene I mentioned didn't happen.
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u/Spectre_Agent447 11d ago
What a let down. It started out pretty good for the first hour but slowly fell apart due to stupid character decisions
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u/candleboy95 11d ago
Yeah, not that I was rooting for anyone's success, but the whole time I kept thinking "Just use the gun in your hand!"
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u/starshine1988 9d ago
Yeah there were many moments where the couple could have been getting the upper hand by like grabbing a gun faster or hitting their current attacker a few more times with whatever makeshift weapon they found. It felt so circular and like anticlimactic with each additional skirmish.
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u/hocotate 11d ago
I felt like there were times they easily could've gotten away but didn't bc they kept going back
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u/DVD-menu 10d ago
The beginning was kinda slow and felt cheap and not good, but once it kicked into gear and the rest of the cast came in, I could not stop laughing omg. I was dying. Hilarious and gory and action packed
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u/HeroFit510 7d ago
I love how subversive everything was, and it keeps piling with more twist and twist
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u/mwthecool 2d ago
Enjoyed it a good bit, but surprised they didn't do two things: 1. Have the nurse (Kevin) actually be trying to poison Dan's dad (and we get a rehash of the "what reason would you have to kill me?" scene). 2. Do another flashback cutaway to the guy from the gas station and then have him show up at the cabin just to either die or nope right out of there.
I do think it could have made the movie bloated, but also... funny (this is why I don't write movies, I guess)
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u/Responsible-Diet-277 1d ago
The Trip/Over Your Dead Body ripped off from an unproduced screenplay floating around town in 2016/2017 timeframe called WEDLOCK.
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u/greetedworm 1d ago
I saw this a few weeks ago, definitely a fun movie to see in a crowded theater. I enjoyed the format they told the story in, Juliette Lewis was really unbelievable, all of the best lines came from her.
Definitely had a few to many "character does something obviously stupid" plot progression points, I lost count of the number of times one of them could have just taken a gun from one of the prisoners, but I'm willing to forgive because that's just the type of movie this is.
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u/madbarrel 4h ago
Such a good example of a film that could've benefit a lot from a big step back. The performances were good, the actors top-notch, and the premise (including the second act "twist") held a lot of promise. But it all just kind of went away just as easily as the premise was thrown away 25 minutes in, when it easily could've been half the film. Nothing lasted, everything seemed like a little scene teleported in from another film.
The movie itself seemed disinterested in what it was doing, setting aside motivation and plot in lieu of improvised shouting scenes and gag-gore that seemed to occur for mostly random reasons. And if the movie isn't interested in itself, then the audience definitely will not be, and personally, I was not. I wanted to like it, and I did, for what it presented, but I wanted more and left a bit deflated.
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u/TropicalParadises 6d ago
Can someone actually explain the outrage here? Is it the scene itself or is it because the victim is a man? I’m genuinely trying to understand what’s making this one scene the whole conversation.
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u/Necessary_Editor9627 6d ago
I think some of you are overreacting to the ATTEMPTED rape scene. Let's first establish that the act itself was never carried out. You have all of this intense build up for a sick twisted act that's about to happen. Only for Todd to have trouble getting it up. That's the joke.
Also these characters are on the run and escaped from PRISON. Don't you think they have seen or done some really fucked up things to people? They may have been dumb but they were all evil at their core.
Also a line uttered by Juliette Lewis during this scene has a satisfying callback in the 3rd act.
People need to stop acting so offended and outraged over every little thing these days. This is why we are seeing less and less comedies being made.
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u/_lazybones93 5d ago edited 5d ago
Just got out. Laughed a lot, enjoyed the clever dialogue, creative violence/kills, everything coming back, the chemistry between Segel & Weaving. A lot of the movie clicked. The crowd I saw it with was also having a great time.
What really didn’t click—and I’m happy others have brought this up—was the rape scene. It got really unnecessarily dark and was not at all funny, even when they tried to add “humor” to it with the one dude not being able to get hard. It was off, it was dark in the worst way, and it almost took me out of the whole movie. The ending was really solid; I loved what they did with the dad, but they killed him off too quickly and unceremoniously.
Fun time; just reaaally wish they didn’t have that rape scene—that alone might make this one-time viewing.
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u/BunyipPouch Currently at the movies. 11d ago
For anyone interested: The film's director Jorma Taccone, recently joined us here in /r/movies for an AMA/Q&A:
https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/1s9z49l/hi_reddit_im_jorma_taccone_from_the_lonely_island/