Monday, October 7, 2013

41-Year-Old Virgin Who Knocked Up Sarah Marshall and Felt Superbad About It



ONE STAR IS TOO MANY
For the love of God please let this be the last of the "Spoofing Other, Better Movies" Movies, because this is absolutely the bottom of the barrel. For starters, somehow the people that made this movie failed to see that if any of those other spoof movies were actually any good, it was because they were making fun of movies that weren't already funny - i.e. satire. Making a comedy making fun of other comedies is just a stupid idea, and this movie is proof of that theory.

The acting is as bad as the writing - crap, crap, and more crap.

For the sake of us all, don't buy this movie - you'll only encourage them to make more and they aren't worth the plastic they're printed on.

An Age-Old Idea Pregnant with Superbad Jokes and Unfunny People
Let me preface this by saying I love most of the source material, laugh until liver pain during most Apatow movies, and think the spoof genre is hilarious (Leslie Nielsen is a god among men). With that said, the title is the movie and it's completely underwhelming. Former MADtv contributor Bryan Callen is the protagonist of an excruciatingly long and lame movie that poorly attempts to lampoon comedies that are infinitely funnier than this "comedy."

The lineup of spoofed films is as follows (I admit I may have missed a few during my boredom coma):
-40 Year Old Virgin
-Knocked Up
-Forgetting Sarah Marshall
-Superbad (changing McLovin's name to McAnalovin is juvenile, but funny)
-Funny People
-Twilight
-Slumdog Millionaire
-The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

There were only two parts of the movie I actually enjoyed. First is a remake of the Dos Equis commercial with "The Most Interesting Man in the World." Funny stuff...

One of the better spoof comedies out there but still not earth shattering
"The 41-Year-Old Virgin Who Knocked Up Sarah Marshall And Felt Superbad About It" was written and directed by Craig Moss. It stars Bryan Callen, formerly of MADtv as Andy who is a virgin and goes through elements of the plot lines from "40 Year Old Virgin", "Superbad", "Forgetting Sarah Marshall", "Knocked Up", and even a bit from "Funny People." Andy after being accosted by his friends and after a date falls through with a girl he connected with named Kim (Noureen DeWulf) repeatedly meets up with Sarah (Mircea Monroe) at a bar where she gets really drunk celebrating and comes home with him after much projectile vomit. Sarah comes back the next day pregnant, but it isn't Andy's baby. Also a Jonah Hill look-alike (Steven Sims) is running around and McAnalovin (Austin Michael Scott) is stuck with a couple of crazy cops.

Besides Judd Apatow flicks, some other movies alluded to in this spoof are "Slumdog Millionaire" (McAnalovin has to jump into poo and the film finishes up...

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