Steve Carell and Rose Byrne play conflicting campaign consultants who are lending support to opposing mayoral candidates in the small struggling town of Deerhaken, Wisconsin. They use all their resources available to get their candidates elected. Hilarity ensues throughout the movie as Jon Stewart (producer/director) pokes fun at everyone. The media, fundraisers, politicians, etc. The movie has an equally clever outcome.
I enjoyed the movie immensely! Especially in this toxic political climate, it was refreshing to see everyone made of fun of. Some of the critics did not like the movie in part because of this. I think it is important to laugh at ourselves and the absurdity of all this.
Starring: Steve Carell, Rose Byrne, and Chris Cooper
Directed by: Jon Stewart
Review by Julie C.
The game is afoot!
In the aftermath of losing his father, Sonny Weaver Jr. has to face one of the biggest days of the year. As the General Manager of the Cleveland Browns it is a day for you to expand your team in the best way possible. It’s Draft Day. It’s all of the pomp and circumstance of the event with a behind-the-scenes look into the personal lives of the people involved. Will Sonny go for another quarterback since his current one went bust the year before? Or will he get a running back he desperately needs to fill in his offense? Add in hurt feelings of the people in the draft who post their thoughts on Twitter. There is something for everyone.
Getting over a breakup is hard for anyone. One way to find closure is to blow up a chemical factory, but only if your name is Harley Quinn. The story from there is about standing on your own two feet and the obstacles one might have in an effort of doing that. Example having an unknown number of people who want to exact revenge (it doesn’t help when you no longer have your now ex-boyfriend’s protection) and competing to recover a diamond that was stolen by a pickpocket. Through different circumstances a group of women band together and get the job done.
A terriorst attack at a Chinese nuclear facility. A man convicted of cybercime. Nick Hathaway, played by Chris Hemsworth, works with the US and Chinese goverments to find out who could have been responsible for the opening attack. The team goes across the globe to catch the person with the plan to wreak havoc.
For those of us who remember the original movie franchise, and remember the original 1970s television series, this reincarnation is a sequel in itself. It takes the original idea of the Townsend Agency and brings it to present time as a business many years later with worldwide locations. I was not overwhelmed by the casting choices in the movie. I liked that this movie did give subtle nods to the tv series and previous movies but not a fan of how exactly it was done. The main reason for watching this for me was thinking it was going to be a piece of fluff (which it was in an escapism way) and seeing how they would deal with multiple Bosleys. For me there will only be one Bosley. It does what all the previous versions did, it focuses on a group of women working together to meet an end goal. The action was flat and the humor injected did not deliver. If I had ended the movie instead of letting it play to start this review I would have missed out on all the cameos that took place in the post credits. Also if you do stick around for all of the post credit scenes you will find the answer to a question that you should have asked yourself during the movie.