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I actually thought this would be closer to Friday as a film. Opening "cartoon violence" scene where a guy gets thrown into a wall and is completely fine kinda threw me off (I said to my movie buddy "Is this more like 'Blazzing Saddles'?" at that point). In the end I guess it was more like "Dude, where's my car?".
Anyway, a pretty funny movie, with 3 large weaknesses:
- Some of the side actors were, ugh... limited... in range.
- A strong editor could have cut the movie to the same runtime and probably put 1 or 2 additional scenes into the film.
- The pacing became a little more accelerated at the end, but it was not enough to actually give you a sense of glee as things get wild. I want a layer cake built of interlocking plots coming together, instead it just felt like a brief sprint at the end.
Still, I'm a sucker for these sort of journey based (Odysseal?) type of films. It was funny enough, the characters where both good charming people, the story was compactly told.