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Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen Star in Ambitious But Flawed ‘Funny People’
Rating: 3.0/5.0CHICAGO– Judd Apatow’s “Funny People,” starring Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen, and Leslie Mann, is like watching a friend try out a new stand-up routine. As with a lot of attempts at trying...
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Russell Brand, Jonah Hill Rock in Very Funny ‘Get Him to the Greek’
Rating: 3.5/5.0CHICAGO– Taking a character who was created as an obnoxious supporting one and giving him his own spin-off movie sounds like a recipe for disaster. Despite generally liking its stars and...
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Kevin James in ‘Zookeeper’ is Zany Family Fun
Rating: 4.0/5.0CHICAGO– Not being familiar with the Kevin James filmography really helped in assessing his latest, “Zookeeper.” His appeal is very evident, and the filmmakers do some funny bits with...
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Darkly Comic Jason Segel in ‘The Five-Year Engagement’
Rating: 4.0/5.0CHICAGO– There are some major laughs in “The Five-Year Engagement,” good old fashion you-can’t-breathe laughs. But it is also dark and serious at times, and makes some surprising...
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Middling ‘Mansome’ Suffers From Skin-Deep Insight
Rating: 2.5/5.0CHICAGO– Morgan Spurlock is an awfully likable guy. I’ll never forget the day when he held a special screening of “Super Size Me” for an auditorium full of college kids. After...
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Judd Apatow’s ‘This is 40’ Clutters Truth with Cliché
Rating: 2.5/5.0CHICAGO– Judd Apatow’s “This is 40” is a true disappointment, a comedy that purports to say something honest and insightful about approaching middle age in the ‘10s but blurs truth by...
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Cussing Doesn’t Spell Out Comedy in ‘Bad Words’
Rating: 2.0/5.0CHICAGO– In his directorial debut “Bad Words”, Jason Bateman plays Guy Trilby, a foulmouthed 40 year old man who aggressively competes in local youth spelling bees. The children are...
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Funny But Familiar Trip to Frat House in ‘Neighbors’
Rating: 3.0/5.0CHICAGO– I have a high tolerance for Seth Rogen, but he begins to show some signs of creative exhaustion in “Neighbors,” a raunchy frat house comedy that’s never quite as funny as it...
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Amy Schumer Way Too Conventional in ‘Trainwreck’
Rating: 2.5/5.0CHICAGO– In one of the most anticipated comedies of the summer, Amy Schumer breaks out of her edgy role as a stand-up and sketch artist to put her spin on the film universe in...
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HollywoodChicago.com On-Air Reviews of ‘The King of Staten Island’ &’Working...
Rating: 3.5/5.0CHICAGO– Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Scott Thompson on WBGR-FM (Monroe, Wisconsin) on June 11th, 2020, discussing new VOD releases “The...
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