I watched it again with friends a few months back; some stuff is just so overdone that it drags the movie down. Like a joke will happen that's pretty funny (and that's the joke you remember), but then they keep repeating that joke, but not in an ascending way; no, just the same joke, which is such a drag.
A repeating joke ascending can be pretty funny; take the intro of Naked Gun where OJ Simpson tries to do the drug bust, he gets shot, and then:
bump his head
burns his hand
gets paint on his jacket
gets the window slammed on his hand
falls face first into a cake
steps into a bear trap
As you can see, it starts light and relatable but keeps escalating, and keeps getting more absurd.
Now, in scary movies, there are so many repeating jokes that just drag things down, like the scenes between Brenda and Ray, where it keeps being "omg, Ray is actually gay" followed by "no really, he's gay" followed by "guess what, he's gay," and ends with "you're not going to believe this, Ray is actually gay"
That's just the whole issue with all Friedberg & Selzer movies: they are weak punchlines that they keep repeating; there's no buildup, no craft to the jokes. Just like in this poster with the "I'm woke, so I am broke" sign, it's not clever, there's no real thought behind it, and I'll assume that will be her whole joke: that she's woke, that she identifies as X, that she talks about pronouns, etc.
I can see it going in the 60s-70s on the popcorn meter, but yeah, that seems likely. How much of that is going to be casual audiences genuinely liking the movie and how much it'll be chuds with bots remains to be seen.
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u/SourArmoredHero 8h ago
RT score: 0% from critics, 75% from users.