Showing posts with label films: comedy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label films: comedy. Show all posts

Friday, December 21, 2012

Sleepwalk With Me (2012): review: 7.5/10

New York: an aspiring comedian begins to make sketches based on his indecision about marriage. he becomes increasingly successful as he works better gigs.

 Diverting piece, if occasionally amateurish piece, with something to say about humour as a function of honest confession, and something to say about the way relationships have to move forward towards marriage if they aren't to die, and something to say about building a career.

Saturday, November 17, 2012

Ted (2012): review: 7/10

Suburban Massachussetts: a young man finds a lover: his teddy bear companion is jealous.

Enjoyable, energetic comic piece about male friendship featuring gross-out humour, slapstick, sentimentality, farce.

2 Days in New York (2012): review: 3/10

A French photographer lives in New York with her black journalist and radio presenter boyfriend. Her relatives come to visit. There are various farcical culture clashes.

This is a Wood Allen style picture, but one lacking the necessary generosity: Delpy is more shrill than witty, and though there are occasional good individual set pieces overall the film stumbles.