Towards the close of the seemingly endless second half of FUNNY PEOPLE, George Simmons (Adam Sandler) makes this lament to THE INCREDIBLE HULK himself, Eric Bana (as Clarke, the current husband of George's ex-, Laura, played by FP director Judd Apatow's real-life wife, Leslie Mann). Too bad there is not a line of dialog in this movie such as "I don't know how to edit--I'm a hot director!," since it would ring truer than any other line in the script.
C'mon, where were the focus groups here? Where was the honest friend? And how about all these LAZY "professional" movie reviewers (yes, you, Claudia), who obviously walk out after 90 minutes, yet still award this increasingly-unfunny comedian marathon 3 1\2 stars (out of four)? Heck, Hollywood could hire ME for $50 a flick, I'd tell them where their bloated family vanity project had jumped the shark (which isn't saying all that much, since Helen Keller could have diagnosed FP), and then they would not miss their box office projection by about $10 million!
Final Score: First half, 8 of 10. Second half, 4 of 10. Overall, FUNNY PEOPLE merits no more than 6 of 10 (and that's under a really generous rating system).
C'mon, where were the focus groups here? Where was the honest friend? And how about all these LAZY "professional" movie reviewers (yes, you, Claudia), who obviously walk out after 90 minutes, yet still award this increasingly-unfunny comedian marathon 3 1\2 stars (out of four)? Heck, Hollywood could hire ME for $50 a flick, I'd tell them where their bloated family vanity project had jumped the shark (which isn't saying all that much, since Helen Keller could have diagnosed FP), and then they would not miss their box office projection by about $10 million!
Final Score: First half, 8 of 10. Second half, 4 of 10. Overall, FUNNY PEOPLE merits no more than 6 of 10 (and that's under a really generous rating system).