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Danny McBride and Nick Swardson saved this movie. Does anyone agree?

posted 13 years ago by Bugz_moran
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I just finished watching this movie and I'm left with a strong impression that this film might have been originally written to be a more straight-forward crime caper.

The comedy in the movie seems to only really exist in the dialogue and I think many of the funny moments came about from improv on the set. With that being said, I thought Danny McBride and Nick Swardson really saved this film with all their goofy (and absurd) dialogue. I've seen some of their solo work and while the jokes supplied there can sometimes be hit or miss, their humor really works well together here. They provide much of the film's humor and fulfills the promise of what the movie is advertised as being.

This film should have been advertised with these two characters in the commercials since it's really their story and their absurd grand scheme. The film actually would have been improved if the film focused on them more as the villain protagonists (think Ruthless People) rather than the lame pizza guy plot.

(I don't get why they necessarily used the delivery guy/bomb plot. Other than it's topical because it happened and spark some controversy. But it could have easily been something else because there is no way to make a pizza guy with no real ambition interesting. What's he going to do with $100,000? I don't know, but I knew what the two idiots were going to do. The audience loses.)

I wouldn't mind seeing these two star in another film together as the stars. Anyone else agree or disagree?

[–] Room_On_Fire 13 years ago

I don't agree. Every scene with them annoyed me. The only one that didn't is the somewhat dramatic scene where McBride gets angry and expresses his worries about Eisenberg's character fingering him in the future and the FBI raids his mansion once he has his millions.

"Oh, my God. Bear is driving! How can that be?!"

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[–] erikriveros 12 years ago

F that....i love danny mcbride...i even liked 'your highness' and that was approaching turd status..but this was mcbride's worst movie..ugh..he was wasted and was never even given good scenes...and as for swardson, well, he was better in bucky larson and that was a sh!tsho w.

it is better to have a gun and not need it, than to need a gun and not have it

[–] JaySherman7 12 years ago

I won't say they "saved" this movie. I still give it a thumbs down. but I agree that McBride and Swardson are the best things in it.

Bring me four fried chickens and a coke.

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[–] jockey-1 11 years ago

I agree that they are two of the best things about the film, particularly Swardson, also Azis. But, there is nothing that can be done with Eisenberg in a film. He is screen poison.