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i liked this and i laughed out loud when Tedesco hit the vape

why did this movie have a police brutality scene

extra half star for being much more cohesive than the first one

something about this movie was weirdly christmas movie feeling. the score? and also a little bit live action cat in the hat core. 

steve zahn showing up in everything he’s in to be a zahn-y dad

unfortunately this felt like the dream you have when you take a nap and it’s too hot in the room. i found large swaths of this generally unintelligible at this time.

that was so real of them

a bit on the nose, very of our time, and sociopolitically on-key, right down to iris’ faux-50s ass wardrobe. could say more and take more risks, but a fun little watch nonetheless

there was one moment in this movie where the shaky cam was so unbearable and distracting. 
i think due to circumstances i’m losing my palate for movies like this.
or possibly i just cannot connect with british anything on a truly deep emotional level.

so tonally jarring when Tina Fey keeps saying these out of place Very Tina Fey lines. not to mention the… well, everything else problematic about it. i couldnt stop thinking about cousin greg the egg the entire time.

watched this for kaitlyn dever because she’s incredible in everything but the postmodern netflix ultra-techy edit format really does not do anything for me on a personal level

as expected

lol

god i love the shot of the prison parcel inspector who can’t bring himself to destroy the Mendel’s pastries. sue me.

bryan cranston lead character in wes anderson movie is soooooooooo

hesitant rating, as it’s clear this has a lot of meat, and i would like to watch it again to really sit with it and find more stuff in there.

however, it also became very clear to me that i’m a Colm. is that bad or

literally why was this movie made. it’s not a satire, it has nothing to say, and is yet again another example of Taika Waititi’s desire to self-insert as some unfunny caricature of a silly guy. shameful to put his toothless plot on the back of a jewish girl who magically saves the day. tonally inconsistent, horrific accents, and yeah— we actually do get to critique a movie based on the ideology it happens to land on when it falls deeply short of genuine satire.

Watched on Friday February 7, 2025.

refraining from repeating what everyone else has said about everything problematic. that’s obvious. and while this movie isn’t as prescient as people insist, we really have become so obsessed with electrolytes.

an extra half star only because i’m a will ferrell apologist and seeing him wrestle an animatronic alligator works for me. i’m simple.

this is the greatest tv movie of all time and should be at the top of the list for Evidence Kristen Stewart is a Legendary Actor

stunningly high rating for this one because as far as 2000s rom coms go, this one deserves its reputation as the best among them!

hesitant rating here. the acting is top notch, the cinematography is nice…. am i just too jaded to feel like this movie hits hard or? yeah. capitalism evil and boundless greed. i know that.

i guess

wigometer: 1/4 (appropriate wigging)

the pain of not being anymore what you once were….. a bit raw at the moment

it’s incredible how much dread and feeling is conveyed in this tiny 1 minute short film. the suburban life so detached from violence that its occurrence is imagined as alien, inhuman, foreign.

watched ver 1 and 2

really interesting to see how we handle period-piece film for a period we’re still arguably in. less badly done than most other pandemic-including films. or at least, it felt a lot less pandering since it was a depiction of real events. 

as always paul dano slayed

they should make more movies that accomplish what this one does. beautiful, does exactly what it sets out to do, and leaves you feeling like the whole thing was only 5 minutes long.

most boring movie of all time. just one hardly redeeming scene. yawn!

god i love everything road trip and road trip movies.

so of its time. three cheers for diverse representation in formulaic rom coms

one star for kristen only. negative three billion stars for everything else about this movie, including their need to make 1000000 cuts and never hold a frame for more than like one nanosecond

this is the best film ever written

i really, REALLY hate to say this, but tim tam is actually doing some damn acting in this movie.

im going to be thinking about jorma taccone as pee wee herman for the rest of my life

yet again, i think a lot of people really didn’t understand this film.

hm

not the target audience for this one

white men ruin things. many such cases!

agador falling down in his shoes really does it for me

i was unaware this movie was horny

i mean. sure, what the hell.

merry christmas! this year i realized just how many montages this movie has.

the sweater wardrobing in this film was incredible

now THIS is a MOVIE!!!!!!!

i spent the whole movie yelling GET OUT!!!! at the tv screen.

good god, not a single moment of this film was romantic in any way. kristen stewart carried this movie and her chemistry with aubrey plaza was so palpable and yet…. for why…..

wildly good. and yes i did cry. mind your own business.

sorry but upon rewatch almost a decade after my first viewing i love this movie

i can see why matthew mcconaughey wanted to stop doing rom coms

Watched on Tuesday December 10, 2024.