Sex Comedy Roundup

[snurri]

Knocked Up: meandering, plotless, and not all that funny. Except when Paul Rudd is onscreen.

Superbad: sweet, vulgar, and not all that funny. Pretty great nonetheless, though. The film equivalent of Doing It, with fuckup cops thrown in. Michael Cera is slowly becoming a hugely important actor, at least for me.

Both films are worth seeing if only to see Martin Starr aka Bill Haverchuck all grows up in a stoner beard and all. Give that man a starring role!!

Now if we could just get a sex comedy in which the women get to play equal parts.

Comments

[silk-noir.livejournal.com]

Yeah, sorry, that's the one I meant. I find comedies difficult also. Especially in the theater. But there were a few things in this that really resonated with me, like the woman's sister worrying about being too old for the club.

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but I think that points to part of what was frustrating about it--for a film that was about a pregnancy, it ended up being much more about the guy and how it all changed him. We saw Katherine Heigl go through the pregnancy and be miserable and all that, but there was a lot we didn't see: her decision about whether to keep the child or not, how the decision to go ahead changed her perspectives about her work, the thought process or the emotional move towards a guy who really didn't seem like a romantic match. Whereas we get him moving out and getting a job and becoming Dad-man. I mean, obviously it's a comedy (and not a romantic one), so they're not going to spend tons of time on those things, but it felt like no one was even interested in much of that from the woman's side, you know? Juno did all of that so much better.

[silk-noir.livejournal.com]

I find that generally comedies about pregnancy are lame. 9 Months, anyone?

[snurri.livejournal.com]

I didn't see that one, 'cuz it looked so lame. But I totally think you should see Juno if/when it comes around (or rent the DVD in a few months).

[jocelina.livejournal.com]

That was my main complaint about Knocked Up. I thought the male characters were excellent, but the female characters seemed like nothing more than filler.

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Right. Heigl's recent comments in whatever-magazine-that-was were pretty dead on, and I was sorry that she backed off of them.