Adam Sandler and writer-director Judd Apatow have come together to make Funny People. If you need to mention about Funny people in a single sentance I would agree with this comment."Funny People is an odd mixture of humanity, vulgarity, and soap opera."
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"The movie opens with actual footage from the past of an adult Sandler on the phone talking in the accent of an old Jewish woman complaining to a butcher that beef gave her diarrhea. It's about as funny as the runs. It was shot by Apatow.
When I was 12, I called the local burlesque house and asked about their headliner Sheila the Peeler, "When does Sheila start peeling?" It was a riot to my buddies.
But I have no footage of that banal call, and I wouldn't use it to start my movie.
Apatow in several ways is far too self-indulgent. He has little or no sense of discipline. If David Lean was the epic director of sand and snow, Apatow is the epic director of penis jokes."
Jokes to be effective and long lasting in the minds of spectators repetition is a stumbling block. Where as, what we see in Funny people is rather the opposite. One of the reviewers says "In Funny People we have to wade through an ocean full of penis jokes like humorless octopi. The first half dozen are bearable, but by the 50th penis joke, the humor is punchless and flaccid."
what a sweeping statement. But it has some sense. he even continues like this "
If Apatow had cut the majority of his beloved penis jokes, the movie which is 146 minutes in length would be less than two hours." WoW!! the penis has become too long.
"Funny People is the story of comedian and movie star George Simmons, who is diagnosed with a rare blood disease that is fatal 92% of the time. As he struggles to cope with his disease, he meets an unsuccessful wannabe comedian Ira Wright (Seth Rogen). George hires Ira to write comedy for him and to be his only confidant.
The close brush with death makes George see life differently, but fate intervenes positively halfway through.
Then a doctor tells him, "get back to your life." At this point the movie abruptly grinds into another gear. What had potential to be a first-rate film about identity and communication becomes second-rate.
Much of this is due to George's trying to pursue his former love Laura. Up until this point, Funny People's humanity had fought a good fight against its lesser instincts. But at this point the Apatow clan rushes in, and the credibility rushes out."
At length, one need to be aware that this is no Kurasova or Ray . A plain funny movie for the people who have tremendous patience and low humor sense. For about
two and a half hours i too became one among them For i had no choice.
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