Funny People? Not Particularly

Went to see Funny People last night because that was the movie that was starting next when we arrived at the theater. It was OK. I laughed at some parts, particularly the big cameo sequence when Eminem tries to instigate a brawl with Ray Romano.

A lot of the humor though was very blue to the point of being repugnant. The constant (and I do mean constant) ugly locker room talk began to feel like an assault on the senses and really irritated me. Also?

Note to the woman who brought her teenage daughter and four of her friends to see this: If I found out you'd taken my kid, I'd punch you in the nose.

You'd think if Adam Sandler is going to do a movie about stand-up comics, he'd get some new material. Most of the stand-up stuff was just his OLD routines re-hashed.

Note to Adam Sandler: It wasn't funny the first time around.

The plot was fairly interesting and in between all the off-color remarks, there was some good stuff about friendship, priorities and the meaning of life blah, blah, blah. Still, I wouldn't recommend seeing it on date night. Wanting to shower with bleach after a movie is not conducive to the romance. Unless you're into that. Are people into that? I need to Ask The Bloggess. On second thought, I don't really want to know.

So to sum up: Funny People is a very long movie because they anticipate at least an hour having to be cut out before it can air on regular television and it could have used a sharp pair of scissors.

Note to Seth Rogan: You personally needed a sharp razor for those fugly sideburns you were sporting through most of the film. After an hour and forty-five minutes of them, I became fixated on the notion of hunting you down and shaving them off myself. If you see a middle aged woman coming at you one day with a large can of shave cream, beware.