I saw Fool's Paradise, starring Charlie Day-Pacific Rim: Uprising, the Horrible Bosses movies; Ken Jeong-My Spy, the Hangover movies; Kate Beckinsale-the Underworld movies, Pearl Harbor and Adrien Brody-The French Dispatch, Predators.
This movie is written, directed and stars Charlie Day, whom I think can be really funny. The problem is that he is not here. Charlie plays 2 roles. The first is a troublesome actor that won't come out of his trailer-he later commits suicide, and it's played for laughs, yep, real funny. The second is a headcase from a mental hospital that a movie producer discovers-since he looks like their actor-and tries to replace their dead actor with him. Charlie-as the mental patient-doesn't talk and barely understands direction. Ken plays the agent that represents Charlie and Kate & Adrien play fellow actors. I guess the joke is that Charlie can become famous without talking but most of the gags are not funny, they are just stupid. An example: silent Charlie marries a star and they adopt 3 Asian children. There are lots of cameos-I guess they owed Charlie a favor-including Jason Sudeikis, Jason Bateman, Edie Falco, John Malkovich, Common and Ray Liotta.
It's rated R for language, drug use, alcohol use and sexual content-no nudity-and has a running time of 1 hour & 37 minutes.
It's not one that I'd buy on DVD, or even rent. If you really want to see it, I'd wait until it comes to tv.
This movie is written, directed and stars Charlie Day, whom I think can be really funny. The problem is that he is not here. Charlie plays 2 roles. The first is a troublesome actor that won't come out of his trailer-he later commits suicide, and it's played for laughs, yep, real funny. The second is a headcase from a mental hospital that a movie producer discovers-since he looks like their actor-and tries to replace their dead actor with him. Charlie-as the mental patient-doesn't talk and barely understands direction. Ken plays the agent that represents Charlie and Kate & Adrien play fellow actors. I guess the joke is that Charlie can become famous without talking but most of the gags are not funny, they are just stupid. An example: silent Charlie marries a star and they adopt 3 Asian children. There are lots of cameos-I guess they owed Charlie a favor-including Jason Sudeikis, Jason Bateman, Edie Falco, John Malkovich, Common and Ray Liotta.
It's rated R for language, drug use, alcohol use and sexual content-no nudity-and has a running time of 1 hour & 37 minutes.
It's not one that I'd buy on DVD, or even rent. If you really want to see it, I'd wait until it comes to tv.