Editor’s note: We have already reviewed I Love You, Man on our 1st podcast, but here is a text review. Enjoy!
When I first saw the trailers for I Love You, Man, I thought this movie would be comedy gold. Starring the always hilarious Paul Rudd (Role Models) and Jason Segel (Forgetting Sarah Marshall) and featuring supporting performances by Andy Samberg, Rashida Jones, Jamie Pressly, J.K. Simmons, and Rush (!) , I had tremendously high hopes for this film. Despite the fact that it was co-written and directed by John Hamburg, whose last comedic attempt was the disastrous Along Came Polly, I went into the theater hoping for Apatow-esque levels of laughter. Instead, I Love You, Man is a wholly different film from the one I expected, but it still delivers a significant amount of laughs. Instead of being a hard-R comedy as the trailers and TV spots would have you believe, I Love You, Man is more of a romantic comedy with hard language than a straight comedy. As a result, there is a lot of sentimentality and heart in this film, some of which comes at the expense of laughter.
If honesty is the best quality, Adventurelandis the gem of the cinematic year so far. Written and directed by Greg Mottola (the guy who directed Superbad) this dramedy is a throwback in every way – from the setting of the film (summer 1987) to the laid-back comic delivery. There’s barely anything that can be defined as a joke in this thing.
For the most part, all the movie’s laughs are natural and observatory rather than fed and forced. This is not to say that the latter doesn’t work – see I Love You, Man for proof of this, a film that feeds jokes consistently with a natural rhythm that does not overwhelm.
According to an LA Times Article the Weinstein is pushing the rest of their ‘08 film releases to 2009. The only exclusions are Zach and Miri Make a Porno, Extreme Movie, and The Reader (maybe). Cinematical explains:
That includes some oft-delayed titles like Killshot and Fanboys, as well as higher-profile stuff like Crossing Over (with Harrison Ford and Sean Penn) and Shanghai (with John Cusack). Ah yes, and the highly-anticipated adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Cormac McCarthy novel The Road.
Despite the fact that The Weinstein Co. is losing employees by the fistful, Harvey W. insists that the reasons for the delays are legit: Killshot he wants to hold for Mickey Rourke’s The Wrestler; Fanboys is waiting for a Comcast promotion in January; Crossing Over deserves to enter a non-crowded marketplace; and Shanghai isn’t even finished yet. Regarding The Road … hmph, it never came up.
Fanboys has gotten delayed over and over again. Does anyone still want to see this movie?
