Katherine Heigl, Patrick Wilson, Jordana Brewster, James Belushi, Kevin McKidd, A.J. Buckley
Don Champagne (Patrick Wilson) is a businessman. He runs a carpet store, but is under the thumb of his extremely controlling wife, Mona (Katherine Heigl). She’s got some real issues! But when Don hires a new salesgirl Dusty (Jordana Brewster) and immediately starts up an affair with her, he knows he’s in trouble if Mona finds out. But when she does, her reaction is not what he expected as she insists on continuing like nothing happened.
This is a very quirky movie. A lot of people were really stunned I think by the strangeness of this story, but I found it to be a fairly decent dark comedy. It certainly gets ridiculous as it moves along, but it just keeps it’s tongue firmly stuck in cheek throughout. Patrick does a wonderful job as the meek and mild mannered Don, trying to put up with and somehow please a outrageously demanding wife. He is really good in this role. Katherine Heigl at the same time is really good in her role as well, so these two play off of each other very well. James Belushi plays a co-worker/employee of Don’s and is great comedy relief. He’s not a major part of the story, but any time he’s on screen he does a fine job. There is a whole list of really bad guys here too that also portrayed very well. The casting on this film is very good. It is a very dark comedy, but it’s also a farce, as nobody could be this calloused. You have to put common sense aside and just go with the flow. I enjoyed this film. It’s not going going to be a big film, but it’s a nice rental and a lot out of the ordinary and quite fresh.
Rob Corddry, Leslie Bibb, Keegan Michael Key, Riki Lindhome, Rob Huebel, Paul Scheer, Robert Ben Garant, Thomas Lennon
A couple, Jack (Rob Corddry) and Vanessa (Leslie Bibb) move into their new home. Vanessa is very pregnant, and they bought the house at a good price, but that could be because it’s reputed to be the most haunted house in all of New Orleans. The house comes with it’s own demonic curse, and soon Vanessa learns she has twins, but one is a kind and gentle child, and the other is the devil’s child. The family has to call on the elite Vatican exorcism team for all the help they can get.
There have been some great horror and suspense movie satires. I usually really enjoy spoof movies. After all my sense of humor bends hard toward sarcasm, and satire is my cup of tea! I like the Airplane movies. Monty Python and the Holy Grail is probably my favorite film. I sat through the Charlie Sheen parodies, and everything Leslie Nielsen ever made. Police Squad is a personal favorite. But this one was just plain stupid. There wasn’t anything funny about this film. Well, that’s not fair, as there were a few times when I laughed, but there’s a fine line between genius and just plain stupid. It’s like how some SNL skits become classics that endure for generations, and some other ones just make you say, “What were you thinking?”. I don’t know who approved this one, but it’s not very good. The whole thing is mostly silly, and it’s a decent idea that just was executed very badly. If you can imagine about 90 minutes of the killer rabbit from Monty Python and the Holy Grail in his own feature film, that’s about as grabbing as this movie was. It reminds me a little of the old, old Soupy Sales show that instead of being clever and funny, was just plain tedious because he tried way too hard. (Not a Soupy Sales fan. I know you’re out there). I just didn’t think this movie was worth the effort, and I really found myself getting annoyed more and more by this. I felt the story was dumb, the acting was awful, the humor was over the top and not funny, and it wasn’t remotely scary, although they didn’t really try for that. They were too busy slap sticking it up to really have any meat n the story. I recommend you skip this one!
