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Issue 31 / September 2011
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CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE 23rd September
A stellar cast including Steve Carell, Julianne Moore and Kevin Bacon should be enough to make sure you catch this story about a man (Carell) who tries to get over his wife’s infidelity.
ABDUCTION 28th September
Twilight star Taylor Lautner takes his first steps towards a post-Twilight career in this Bourne-style action thriller, in which he plays a man whose life is turned upside down when he finds his baby picture on a miss- ing persons’ site.
WHAT’S YOUR NUMBER? 30th September
Anna Faris stars as a young woman looking back on the last 20 men she has dated, in the hopes that one of them may have been the love of her life. Faris has always been a hugely talented comedienne in search of the right film, and in What’s Your Number? she may very well have found it.
REVIEW
30 MINUTES OR LESS SEPTEMBER 23RD
Nick is a small town pizza delivery guy whose life collides with the big plans of two wannabe criminal masterminds.
Zombieland director Ruben Fleischer takes everything that was great about his 2009 film (the chaotic tone, the bouts of violence, Jesse Eisenburg) and brings it to the boil in this manic comedy. With The Social Network on his CV, Eisenburg probably has his pick of Hollywood scripts, so it is very telling that he is reunited with Fleischer as the pair obviously work well together.
Eisenburg stars as Nick, a pizza delivery boy who is kidnapped by Dwayne (Danny McBride) and Travis (Nick Swardson). The two kidnappers are in desperate need of cash in order to pay an assassin
hired to kill Dwayne’s father, so they attach a bomb to poor Nick’s chest and instruct him to rob a bank. If he fails to do so, they will blow him up. Cue help from Nicks estranged best friend Chet (Aziz Ansari), as they attempt to rob the bank and save Nicks life.
It’s a fantastic premise, but the films success lies in Fleischer’s execu- tion; the action set pieces are tight and snappy, the dialogue frenetic and hilarious. The film’s greatest asset, however, is its slightly off- kilter approach. Some elements are just so lovingly random (Nick’s kidnappers greet him wearing ape masks, for instance) that they will
reward multiple viewings, while the performances are uniformly brilliant. Eisenburg can do this smart-mouthed nerd schtick in his sleep, but there is a certain joy and novelty in seeing Mark Zuckerburg wade through increasingly insane situations. Ansari, who has had brief but memorable appearances in I Love You, Man and Get Him to the Greek, really comes in to his own here. Elsewhere McBride and Swardson are both wonderfully mental and inept as the kidnappers.
If you like your comedies big, brash and on the verge of insanity, you could do much worse.
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