Maybe if you’re as dumb as the morons this movie is about you’ll find find its mix of taser jokes, midget taunting, and verbal gendered abuse of children amusing.
This won’t open in the U.K. till August, so I had been blissfully unaware that there was a new Michael Bay movie on offer. But now I face a big mystery: Michael Bay has been apologizing for Armageddon but not for this?
Except he’s apologizing for the editing… not the scent of locker-room stupidity that surrounds his films.
He’s denied that it was an apology, in any case:
http://insidemovies.ew.com/2013/04/23/michael-bay-does-not-apologize-for-armageddon/#more-104054
Say what you want about Michael Bay, but as far as evil corporate sellouts trying to destroy cinema go, I think he’s pretty far down the list. At least he does terrible movies with style and passion while other hacks are just shooting and cashing their check.
It’s sad that this is true.
Rarely has the “for mature audiences” label been so comprehensively misapplied.
Poor Rebel Wilson. I keep hoping someone will cast her as something other than “the girl who is funny because she is fat”.
I expect to see Dwayne Johnson in something like this. But Ed Harris? Even Wahlberg?
It’s funny that fat girls like sex. Who’da thunk?
I thought this movie was awful. Bay was trying to emulate the Coen Brothers’ style of black humor, but it falls flat on its face. Even though it’s based on a true story… the way he approaches the story is repulsive. Nobody is likeable or relatable. Rock and Wahlberg’s antics are a bit funny at the start, but it quickly wears thin.
Ironically, the best thing about this movie is Rebel Wilson. There’s one ad-libbed line that had me in stitches… and it’s after that sex scene.