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

[readingthedark.livejournal.com]

Michael Cera was the only part of Superbad that I really liked. I enjoy studying what these films say about society and hope, someday, to teach a big lecture course about them, but comedies are tough for me. Most of them make me want to retch.

[silk-noir.livejournal.com]

Oh, I dunno. It was good enough for a date movie for me & my spouse.

[bondgwendabond.livejournal.com]

We haven't seen Superbad yet, but I pretty much hated Knocked Up and was shocked at how much people like it!

[ajjones.livejournal.com]

Yes, women are genuinely cast as 'the chick' in these comedies.

[v-verticordia.livejournal.com]

I thought Knocked Up was a horror movie, not a comedy! That beautiful, successful woman ruins her entire life by sleeping with that idiot loser and then has to spend the rest of her life with him! I kept waiting for the moment when they fall in love or he redeems himself, but nothing ever happened! It had some funny moments but all in all I don't get Judd Aptow movies. They're too long and too unstructured and have too much idiot bathroom humor. The "pinkeye" bit in KU had nothing to do with anything and was not funny either. I like 40 Year Old Virgin but again: too long! They're movies about a single joke! They often have some cool characters but as far as the critics go: why are they wetting their pants over this dude? Is it because we haven't had any decent comedies out lately? Give me Wes Anderson and the Simpsons, dude. I'm sick of cum/snot comedies.

[terpsichord.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad to see Michael Cera's career taking off like it is. I enjoyed him so much in "Arrested Development," he seemed so genuine in every episode...everyone on that show was great, but his contribution seemed fairly effortless. He's fun to watch.

[10yroldwhizkid.livejournal.com]

I called him Ceratops when he was my celebrity boyfriend of the month. I don't remember why I broke up with him. He was the best thing that's ever happened to me.