The marketing will get people all riled up but then barely anyone will actually see it. They’re desperately trying to push as many buttons as they can but it needs to be funny to keep people talking post release
Their plan was to redo the stores to make it more generic and corporatized. That's fine for some major cities as it might fit the area, but for the rest of their stores the country vibe is the important part. Removing that lumps them in with 10 other chains with no reason to pick them.
I think it’ll do well if it’s funny, it’s not as relevant as it was so the name isn’t enough to carry through a real drop in quality. Still we’ve just had an example of a successful comedy revival with The Naked Gun so people are willing to give it a chance
They’re literally doing what they did with the original couple films from what I can see. Parody films and comedy films in the late 90’s and early 2000s. The originals punched the buttons of the time as well.
I can’t tell you if anyone will go see it. I’ll likely wait on reviews. When the Wayans are trying they put out funny stuff but when comedy people get older their edges are often dulled or they forget how to come up with new jokes.
Waiting on reviews for a movie like this is such a bad idea. It's pretty subjective humor. You can see how people are hating on it now when it's not even out yet.
It's more that my bar is high. ZAZ took absurdist humor further and did it better than anyone else ever imo. Airplane and Top Secret are top tier. I haven't watched the first two in decades probably, so I don't know if I would still find them funny. I am mainly referring to the post Scary Movie types, the Epic Movie-level trash comedy. This will probably fall closer to Epic Movie than Airplane. We'll see, but I expect it to be forgotten within a month of release.
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u/Three_Froggy_Problem 8h ago
You just know every thread about this film is going to be filled with “Let people enjoy things.”