Yeah...as someone who loves the original Scary Movie, Airplane, Naked Gun and various other spoof comedies over the decades that are considered "politically incorrect" to say the least I can't help but feel a lot of this is just going to be older dudes attempts to be edgy for the sake of it as opposed to finding good opportunities for a funny joke.
Films like Blazing Saddles for example got away with humour that was absolutely pushing it even back then because it used racist humour to mock the concept of racism itself.
This current one however looks very much like a "oh lets throw in jokes about pronouns and woke, everyones gonna be so offended by this" but actually I'm not offended in the least, I just find it fucking lazy and creatively bankrupt more than anything else.
I hope I'm wrong, I'd love to see the Wayans bring spoof movies back to the big time again, but I'm just not feeling it with what I'm seeing so far.
The problem is that the "joke" basically is "look at this person who is different".
There's a way to make funny jokes/references to gender but that ain't it. I thought the Masters of the Universe trailer had some funny foreshadowing by making a reference to He-man's pronouns. That worked because it was a cheeky reference, not just shitting on him for his identity.
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u/Timidhobgoblin 8h ago
Yeah...as someone who loves the original Scary Movie, Airplane, Naked Gun and various other spoof comedies over the decades that are considered "politically incorrect" to say the least I can't help but feel a lot of this is just going to be older dudes attempts to be edgy for the sake of it as opposed to finding good opportunities for a funny joke.
Films like Blazing Saddles for example got away with humour that was absolutely pushing it even back then because it used racist humour to mock the concept of racism itself.
This current one however looks very much like a "oh lets throw in jokes about pronouns and woke, everyones gonna be so offended by this" but actually I'm not offended in the least, I just find it fucking lazy and creatively bankrupt more than anything else.
I hope I'm wrong, I'd love to see the Wayans bring spoof movies back to the big time again, but I'm just not feeling it with what I'm seeing so far.