Easily the best frat boy comedy since Animal House, Neighbors crams its visually arresting 96 minute running time with as much deeply
flawed human comedy as possible.
He crams those visually arresting minutes with as much deeply
flawed human comedy as possible.
Not exact matches
Yeah, vulgarity for the sake of vulgarity strikes me as uninteresting, but raunchy
comedies are compelling when they treat their
flawed characters like
human beings we can observe and understand.
Jon Negroni: Yeah, vulgarity for the sake of vulgarity strikes me as uninteresting, but raunchy
comedies are compelling when they treat their
flawed characters like
human beings we can observe and understand.
From there the Spanish director Nacho Vigalondo turns the film into a dark romantic
comedy that focuses on
human relationships and
human flaws.
Yes, romantic
comedies are stupid and predictable and follow a rigid formula, but we love them because they mirror our own
human comedy, one that reflects our
flaws back at us through a prettier face.
It would have been easy to continue beating the dead horse or make a full - blown
comedy that, while humorous, does not portray Tommy as a
human being with notable
flaws.
Directed by the versatile Leo McCarey, a master of improvisation and slapstick as well as a keen and sympathetic observer of
human folly, «The Awful Truth» is a warm but unsparing
comedy about two people whose
flaws only make them more irresistible.