Funny People (2009)

Judd Apatow is willing to bet on his wife's ability at the expense of their own success to the stratosphere? Is the question I keep asking, after the wonderful first half of his last film, Funny People, a film that Apatow is the attempt, his films in a more mature direction. Even including some of its directory of artists like Seth Rogen (Knocked Up) and Jonah Hill (Superbad) and the addition of Adam Sandler (demonstrates the ability to dramatically, it is in Punch-Drunk Love is not a coincidence) Apatow cleverly succeeds in holding a mixture of theater, from the rails to his custom sophomoric, even higher, humor area at least this part of the video.

Do not be fooled, because they fear that the theater disappointed. Despite its large spread of stand-up comedian and its corresponding frame in the middle, Funny People is a drama. Sandler plays George Simmons, a stand-up comic who suggested this big in the film industry. After the diagnosis of an incurable disease, so is life and wonders what would have been as if he is not so arrogant and egotistical. George cheated on Laura (Leslie Mann), the only woman who ever loved by him, on his right to marriage and family Clark (Eric Bana), a gangster with the same trend towards Otherwise Phil. George speaks little of his parents and his sister. And he has no friends outside of the cynical, it depends on knowledge in the stand-up world (played by all actors to know how a version of himself). So George decides to set up a wizard, which for him as a writer, friend and confidant, a younger, more naive, that the new version of itself and we hope he can join the abyss, it must now cope with the ROE Ira Wright.

For the first half hour, which is quite natural, that is a premiere for a movie in high-concept Apatow universe. DRUGS Sandler characters and link to their love for comedy, the desire, the right of the people, and even on usual Apatow dick jokes. George Sandler plays close to his heart, with the small screen Sandler comedy routines help the feeling that it is a little version of Sandler himself to be open to all. It is the first time one sees the strong emotional increase of age on the actor for his performance of a man and a child. And it helps. ROE shows a significant tax deduction to its predecessor, comedy, Sandler. He wisely plays Ira optimistic a sounding board and human rights Misanthrope old is quite frequent. , Is often the target of the joke that the driving force.

And yes, there are many jokes in this drama, which is expected in a movie with the title Funny People. But we must also be accompanied by an appeal to be irony in the title, like a so-called comedy constitute criticism that they already have. So Funny People is a drama yet. I could say all the people in my play midway in the film, if the property is even more difficult with the introduction of Leslie Mann, Apatow, the woman in the mix.

Sandler as a man and the characters of the film transforms into a family drama. Sandler, whether life is alive, with her husband and their two daughters. He believes in the severance of relations with Clark, because almost animal unfaithfulness of man, even if his own previous opinions with her. Todd McCarthy of Variety, the test seems to equal treatment of parties in the responsibility of both the screenplay and the performance by Leslie Mann for Funny People just come in the second half. I am.

Funny People's story line May, but the fact organically, never committed. The change in the tone of the film, and the complexity of feelings that the situation requires a big demand for an actor, Sandler, and is at the height. Mann did not. Yes, it is quite funny and the spaces in the above Apatow efforts, but here it is not the dramatic series for us sympathize with his character of the rapid change of circumstances. Another paradox, since its Laura is a former actress who is not with Cameron Diaz, when both went up by The Mask (1994), Bana and Clark does it mean for the same failure.

So please keep husband in the amount of your next film by Judd, because all the blame for Funny People from the second half of the derailment, even on his shoulders, and your in for the casting of his play an important role in a film, unfortunately, relegated be interesting footnote in your filmography.