And
while awkward comedy does indeed work in many cases, within this context, it's mainly uncomfortable, and there are few genuine laughs to be had here.
The performances in The Judge were the amazing, but the bloated script
with awkward comedy moments was frustrating.
Writer / director Patrick Brice completely gets that dynamic — and explores it for
deliciously awkward comedy — in «The Overnight.»
You and your companions can endure all of the
painfully awkward comedy scraped straight from the bottom of the chuckle barrel.
If you don't know those movies or the Duplassi, they specialize
in awkward comedy - drama about losers who don't realize they're losers and live their lives like winners, often causing trauma to the people around them while doing so.
Highlights include Eden, Mia Hansen - Løve's French DJ drama starring Greta Gerwig and Brady Corbet; Best of Enemies, Morgan Neville and Robert Gordon's doc about Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley Jr.'s legendary 1968 televised debates; Results, Andrew Bujalski's
awkward comedy starring Cobie Smulders and Guy Pearce as personal trainers; Francois Ozon «s latest drama, The New Girlfriend; and What Happened, Miss Simone?
We feel like sellouts for praising commercials, but Burger King found a gold mine of
awkward comedy by digging up the its old mascot, The Burger King, in the mid-2000s.
And by accepting that the public saw his melodramatic romance as
an awkward comedy, he has actually made money from it.
There's some odd touches to this, but overall it looks like a fun space adventure with
some awkward comedy.