Neighbors (2014) - Stoller's low-flying raunch turkey

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+ Most Overrated Movie of the Year 

 

Silliness is promised on this simple poster for Nicholas Stoller's Neighbors

 

With a newborn baby, our protagonist couple have entered a new phase in their lives and relationship, which is inconveniently clashing with their being neighbors to a house where a college fraternity now moves in...

 

Neighbors is written by Andrew Jay Cohen and Brendan O'Brien  (The House (2017), both) and directed by great British-American filmmaker Nicholas Stoller (Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)).

Not the experience of becoming parents, nor that of turning 25, 30 or 35, (it is unclear how old they are meant to be exactly), seems to have matured our protagonists to any meaningful extent. - Their dialog has a 'fucking' demonstratively placed in just about every sentence they utter, seemingly because that would make their lines funny, or? (The rationale is dubious at best.)

In any case they just aren't funny, and neither is the frat house next door. Neighbors goes on as a dick-obsessed, very low-flying, poor comedy, which even in its big party scenes didn't make me remember why parties can be fun.

It is a shame that the talented Zac Efron (At Any Price (2012)) finds himself in this cowpat, while it seems more natural that the other stars should sometimes appear in this type of trash. A 'milking scene' with Seth Rogen (Pam and Tommy (2022, miniseries)) and Rose Byrne (Annie (2014)) is the lightest moment in the film and somewhat amusing. Otherwise this amoral drinking and drugs-thrilled burp of a film is long and unfunny.

 

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The Muppets (2011) or, Man or Muppet? (co-writer)
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2010 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]
2010 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2010 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess  
Gulliver's Travels (2010) or, Gulliver's Travesty (co-writer) 

2008 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II] 
2008 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2008 in films - according to Film Excess

Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008) - Stoller and Segel triumph with hilarious, multifaceted romcom 

Fun with Dick and Jane (2005) - Powerhouses Carrey and Leoni buoy Parisot's uneven farce (co-writer) 

 

 

Watch a short trailer for the film here

 

Cost: 18 mil. $

Box office: 270.6 mil. $

= Mega-hit (returned 15.03 times its cost)

[Neighbors premiered 8 March (South by Southwest Film Festival, Austin, Texas) and runs 97 minutes. Shooting took place in 38 days from March - May 2013 in California, including in Los Angeles. The film opened #1 to a 49 mil. $ first weekend in North America, where it stayed in the top 5 for another 2 weekends (#2-#4), grossing 150.1 mil. $ (55.5 % of the total gross). The 2nd and 3rd biggest markets were the UK with 26.9 mil. $ (9.9 %) and Germany with 18 mil. $ (6.7 %). Stoller also directed sequel Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising (2016) with also the stars returning. This was Stoller's return, with an episode of The Grinder (2016, TV-series) in between. Efron returned first with a voice performance in Robot Chicken DC Comics Special II: Villains in Paradise (2014, TV movie) and theatrically in We Are Your Friends (2015); Rogen in 22 Jump Street (2014). Neighbors is certified fresh at 73 % with a 6.40/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

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Get Hard (2015) - Learn about prison in Cohen's comedy bummer

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Kevin Hart braids Will Ferrell's unruly (and suspiciously short) hair on this poster for Etan Cohen's Get Hard

A celebrated CEO, who lives in a minor mansion with a beautiful fiancée, is indited and sentenced to prison time for fraud, and so he hires the man who washes his car to prepare him for jail.

Get Hard is written by Jay Martel (Red Nose Day (2016, TV movie)), Ian Roberts (Martin & Orloff (2002)) and debuting co-writer/director Etan Cohen (My Wife Is Retarded (2007, short)), with co-writer/co-producer Adam McKay (The Campaign (2012)) contributing story elements.

It is a frenzied but very rarely funny comedy, which couples comedy stars Kevin Hart (35 and Ticking (2011)) and Will Ferrell (The House (2017)) for the first time: Two very different comedians, whose individual talents are not exactly a match made in heaven. Still it is only their two energetic performances which give the film its very few elated moments.

The film builds both on the premise that racial stereotypes not always stick in reality, but meanwhile builds almost all of its comedy on hackneyed stereotypes. I grew tired and anything but uplifted by this stinker, which for many will probably just be remembered as the film in which a slow-motion scene has Ferrell trying to man up to perform oral sex on another man.

Watch a 4-minute scene from the film here

Cost: 44 mil. $

Box office: 111.7 mil. $

= Box office success (returned 2.53 times its cost)

[Get Hard premiered 16 March (South by Southwest Film Festival, Austin, TX) and runs 100 minutes. Shooting took place in New Orleans, Louisiana, where the production was given a 12.3 mil. $ tax incentive and spent an estimated 39.8 mil. $ there (which seems a suspiciously high figure.) The film opened #2, behind fellow new release Home, to a 33.8 mil. $ first weekend in North America, where it spend another 3 weekends in the top 5 (#3-#3-#4) and grossed 90.4 mil. $ (80.9 % of the total gross). The 2nd and 3rd biggest markets were the UK with 7.9 mil. $ (7.1 %) and Australia with 4.5 mil. $ (4 %). Cohen returned with Holmes & Watson (2018). Hart returned in Ride Along 2 (2016); Ferrell in 3 TV credits prior to his theatrical return in Daddy's Home (2015). Get Hard is rotten at 28 % with a 4.40/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

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Me, Myself & Irene (2000) - The Farrelly brothers falter

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Star Jim Carrey's face is split in half as two radically different personalities on this poster for Bobby and Peter Farrelly's Me, Myself & Irene

 

In the Rhode Island State Police works a doormat of a man, who lives with his ex-wife's triplets. But now he suffers a mental breakdown, which makes him split in two opposite personalities, just as he is about to transport hit-and-run driver Irene to New York.

 

Me, Myself & Irene is written by Mike Cerrone (Homie Spumoni (2006)) and great co-writer/director filmmaker brothers, Rhode-Islander Bobby Farrelly and Pennsylvanian Peter Farrelly (Dumb and Dumber (1994)). Peter Farrelly also produced the film.

Although Me, Myself & Irene begins with some promising signs, what follows is an often unfunny and actually tedious film. Jim Carrey's (The Majestic (2001)) performance is labored, and neither he nor Renée Zellweger (The Low Life (1995)), who plays Irene, have particularly interesting or well-shaped characters here in a story that is frankly an ungainly patchwork. That so many gags and jokes in this darkly humorous crude comedy fall through, - there are bright moments, but they are precious few, - actually make periods of Me, Myself & Irene a bit embarrassing on sexist and racial planes. You may remember this film as fun and zany but chances are you'll be sorely disappointed, if you revisit it, as it is truly a bummer.

 

Watch a clip from the film here 

 

Cost: 51 mil. $

Box office: 149.2 mil. $

= Box office success (returned 2.92 times its cost)

[Me, Myself & Irene premiered 15 June (USA) and runs 116 minutes. Shooting took place in Vermont and Rhode Island from May - July 1999. The film opened #1 to a 24.2 mil. $ first weekend in North America, where it stayed in the top 5 for another 2 weekends (#3-#3) and grossed 90.5 mil. $ (60.7 % of the total gross). Roger Ebert gave the film a 1.5/4 star review, equal in rating to this one. The Farrelly brothers returned with Osmosis Jones (2001). Carrey returned in How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000). Me, Myself & Irene is rotten at 47 % with a 5.44/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

 

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Bachelorette (2012) - Headland's unfunny raunch comedy debut

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+ 2nd Worst Movie of the Year

Andrew Rannells (Girls (2012-17)) is the stripper who delights the girls here on a poster for Leslye Headland's Bachelorette

A high school clique of four girls gather in New York as grown women, when one of them is getting married, but the coming bride is soon made ill by her dishonest friends, who also accidentally ruin her dress.

Bachelorette is written and directed by debuting Leslye Headland (Sleeping with Other People (2015)), adapting her own same-titled play. Headland wants it to be the youth comedy of a new era, but its overstrung characters are about as sympathetic as hemorrhoids, - but what is worse is that they are not funny, either.
Self-centered they swish around a plot that consists of the torn, abused dress with lavish doses of sex talk and drugs, apparently following the credo that anything that is raunchy in any way is also funny.
That credo is put to shame here, as Bachelorette effectively disproves it. The film is downright agonizing to sit through. What Kirsten Dunst (Marie Antoinette (2006)) is doing in this solid turkey, so far beneath her talent, is one of the despairing questions it leaves in its wake.
The best thing to be noted about Bachelorette is its relatively short length.

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Watch a trailer for the film here

Cost: 3 mil. $
Box office: 11.9 mil. $
= Big hit
[Bachelorette premiered 23 January (Sundance) and runs 87 minutes. Shooting took place in New York on an admirably, relatively low budget. The film opened #35 to a 181k $ first weekend in 47 theaters, its peak position (topping in 60 theaters though) in North America, where it grossed tiny 447k $ (3.8 % of the total gross). The 3 biggest markets were Australia (Rebel Wilson's home country) with 2.7 mil. $ (22.7 %), Italy with 2.2 mil. $ (18.5 %) and France with 1.1 mil. $ (9.2 %). The film made an additional 8 mil. $ on VoD (probably solely from North America, making up for the weak theatrical performance there), which, if added to the theatrical gross, would make change the film's status to 'huge hit'. Headland followed it up with Sleeping with Other People (2015). Bachelorette is rotten at 56 % with a 5.5 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

What do you think of Bachelorette?

Ted (2012) - MacFarlane's crass comedy is a winner

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One of the bright, culturally connecting posters for Seth MacFarlane's Ted

 

Ted is a living, breathing teddy-bear, who still lives with his best friend, who has now turned 35, and whose girlfriend is getting tired of his vulgar, transgressive best friend.

 

Ted is the feature debut for co-writer/co-producer/director/voice actor Seth MacFarlane (Family Guy (1999-16), creator), written with Alec Sulkin and Wellesley Wild (A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014), both). It is a package of immature, mean-spirited fun; its success with each single audience member depends on his or her relationship with the type of humor that has become MacFarlane's brand, a type that is at the expense of many different groups of people as well as individual celebrities.

The effects-wise complicated task of a major character who is a (seemingly) real, live teddy-bear, (voiced by MacFarlane), functions really well. Mark Wahlberg (Lone Survivor (2013)) and Mila Kunis (Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)) are perfectly cast, and Giovanni Ribisi (The Gift (2000)) is funny as the heavy. Ted and Wahlberg share what may be the year's best fight scene in the film.

To extend the premise into a feature-length film, an uninspired car chase gets stuffed into Ted as well as some obscure humor; SPOILER first and foremost the many Flash Gordon (1980) references, - including the involvement of Sam J. Jones (Flash Gordon himself from the film), who plays himself, - which, on the other hand, is quite funny.

Ted is crude, arguably in poor taste, - but a funny comedy nonetheless.

Watch a trailer for the film here

Cost: 51 mil. $

Box office: 549.3 mil. $

= Huge hit

[Ted was released June 29 and runs 106 minutes. MacFarlane originally envisioned Ted as another animated TV-series. Filming took place entirely on location in Massachusetts from April - July 2011. The film opened #1 to a 54.4 mil. $ opening weekend, spending a total of 5 weeks in the top 5, (slipping one seat every week), in North America, where it grossed 218.8 mil. $ (39.8 % of the total gross). The 2nd and 3rd biggest markets were the UK with 48.8 mil. $ (8.9 %) and Japan with 43.9 mil. $ (8 %). The film was Universal's highest-grossing film of 2012 and the 12th highest-grossing of the year overall. Ted was nominated for one Oscar; for Best Song (Everybody Needs a Best Friend), which it lost to Skyfall. Ted 2 was released in 2015, which was still successful, but much less so. Ted is fresh at 67 % with a 6.4 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

What do you think of Ted?

Sausage Party (2016) - One outrageous, funny, horny adult animation

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An appropriately outrageous, funny poster for Greg Tiernan and Conrad Vernon's Sausage Party 

 

Sausage Party is the first R-rated CGI-animated movie, described as a spoof on Pixar movies by some, it is a furiously horny raunch-comedy. It is writen by Seth Rogen (Superbad (2007)), Evan Goldberg (The Night Before (2015)), Kyle Hunter (The Night Before) and Ariel Shaffir (The Night Before), with Jonah Hill (21 Jump Street (2012)) contributing story elements, and directed by Greg Tiernan (Thomas & Friends: Sticky Situations (2012)) and Conrad Vernon (Shrek 2 (2004)).

Frank, a sausage who is in love with a bun named Brenda, has high hopes of the divine afterlife outside the store which are to be fulfilled on 'red-white-and-blue day' (4th of July). But new intelligence rocks the food items' firm belief in a great beyond...

Sausage Party deals with more real content than most audiences probably expect: SPOILER Namely the idea of a divine afterlife, - and in doing so staunchly reproving and rejecting all religions, which isn't my cup of tea, but at least it's done with a lot of humor here. SPOILER And on its ambitious path, it also attempts to solve the Israel-Palestine conflict and reproves reactionary, Islamic politics!

 

 

But don't kid yourself: While doing these seemingly serious things, Sausage Party delivers enough f-bombs and more finessed sexual references to satisfy even the most vulgar teen or adult. It really is outrageous SPOILER and, of course, all culminates in a joyous, funny, exhilarating food orgy. - Literally. The film also references countless movies and celebrities.

Of the many star voices in the film, Rogen and Kristen Wiig (Ghostbusters (2016)) as the leads do well, - although there wasn't that much Wiig-quality to Brenda, perhaps a side-effect of the lovely funny-woman's simply over-working herself these years. David Krumholtz (Hail Caesar! (2016)) is funny as Lavash, and Edward Norton (Moonrise Kingdom (2012)) stands out as Sammy, - in a good or bad way will be up to the individual viewer, - with a voice that's very recognizably shaped on Woody Allen. Salma Hayek (Frida (2002)) is also good fun as a lesbian taco.

Sausage Party is filled with amusing moments and some that are laugh-out-loud funny. The animation isn't on par with Pixar movies, (but look at the budget and go figure), and is still of impressively high quality. It is an outrageous, very funny and very horny movie, bringing to mind such flicks as Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Sex *But Were Afraid to Ask (1972) and Fritz the Cat (1972). It could only come from the warped, baked minds of Goldberg and Rogen.

 

 

Watch a trailer for the film here

 

Cost: 19 mil. $

Box office: 114.3 mil. $ and counting

= Huge hit

[Sausage Party premiered March 14 (SXSW Austin, Texas Festival) and runs 88 minutes. Rogen has stated that the film took 8 years to get made due to hesitance and fear in Hollywood and has said of its development: "What would it be like if our food had feelings?’ We very quickly realized that it would be fucked up." The film dodged a NC-17 rating by removing some pubic hair from one of the food characters in the film to receive its R-rating. Controversy has surrounded the film's production, as animators have allegedly been forced to work overtime without pay to complete the film on its assigned budget. A large number of animators have reportedly been removed from the credits due to complaints about this outrageous praxis, alleged to have been at the behest of co-director Tiernan. (This story seems to explain some of the reason why the film could be made for such a low budget.) The film opened #2, behind Suicide Squad, with a 34.3 mil. $ first weekend in North America, where it stayed #2 for another week and remained in the top 5 for 5 weeks in total, and has to date grossed 93.9 mil. $. The film has yet to open in several important markets and so is likely to gross a good deal more still. Rogen has talked of an idea for a sequel, which is likely to materialize now. Sausage Party is certified fresh at 82 % with a 6.7 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

What do you think of Sausage Party?

Get Him to the Greek (2010) - Brand and Hill light up Stoller's funny music biz satire

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The two stars are primed to sell Nicholas Stoller's Get Him to the Greek

Jonah Hill (Moneyball (2011)) plays a guy who works for record executive Sergio (Sean Combs (Draft Day (2014)) is surprisingly good in the part) and who gets an idea: He wants to stage a revival concert for British rock star Aldous Snow at the Greek Theatre in LA. The problem becomes how to get the unruly star from London to the gig in 72 hours.

The idea of master writer-director Nicholas Stoller's (Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)) movie here is funny. The film features a serious satire of the music business, which isn't funny enough, especially in its first half hour, which lags. 
But the tone is adroit throughout, and especially the city scenes with Hill and Russell Brand (Arthur (2011)), who returns as the character from Forgetting Sarah Marshall, are amusing. Elisabeth Moss (A Buddy Story (2010)) does well in a supporting role, SPOILER especially in the threesome scene. It is a shame that Brand's rock songs just don't play well, and they shouldn't have been featured in my opinion. The sentimental ending for Hill's character is also contrived.
Still, Get Him to the Greek is an entertaining comedy.

Related review:
 
Nicholas Stoller: The Muppets (2011) or, Man or Muppet? (co-writer)

Watch a trailer for the film here

Cost: 40 mil. $
Box office: 91.2 mil. $
= Flop
[Get Him to the Greek was released June 4 and runs 109 minutes. The film was already announced as a spin-off to Forgetting Sarah Marshall a week after that film's release. Filming took place in London, New York, California and Las Vegas. The film opened #2, behind Shrek Forever After, to a 17.5 mil. $ first weekend in North America, where it grossed 60.9 mil. $ (66.8 % of the total gross). The 2nd and 3rd biggest markets were the UK with 10.9 mil. $ (12 %) and Australia with 8.4 mil. $ (9.2 %). Get Him to the Greek is certified fresh at 72 % with a 6.3 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

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Klown Forever/Klovn Forever (2015) - A raunchy laugh smash

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+ Best Los Angeles Movie of the Year

Casper Christensen and Frank Hvam on what must be the year's most outrageous poster, for Mikkel Nørgaard's Klown Forever

Klown Forever is the sequel to the huge Danish comedy hit Klown/Klovn: The Movie (2010), which was based on the TV-series Klown/Klovn (2005-09), in which Danish comedians Casper Christensen (Player (2013)) and Frank Hvam (What's Wrong with This Picture?/Tid Til Forandring (2004)) play themselves in their celebrity-studded, clownish Copenhagen lives.

Frank has become a henpecked father and husband, and his old best friend Casper, now single, is living in another universe and consequently decides to leave Frank and Denmark to pursue his dreams of making it big in Los Angeles.

For us who have laughed hysterically at Klown before, - TV-series and/or the movie, - Klown Forever is like a box of candies. - It's just a lot of fun. Christensen and especially Hvam, who also co-wrote and executive produced the film, are back in top shape, comically if not physically, and they go all in once again, resulting in awkwardness and uproarious laughter aplenty.
The plot may be a bit thick at some points, but it generally works, even though it doesn't have the major narrative drive of the first film, (the journey of that film isn't comparable to the one here, which is cut short.) To get out the other few problems of the film, debuting actress Simone Colling looks fine but she comes up a bit short acting-wise here as Casper's daughter, a quite big part. The film also has a couple of effects-shots that unfortunately simply don't look good enough.

Mia Lyhne (All Inclusive (2014)) is spectacular, and looks as good as ever, or even better, and I am hoping for a more Mia-centered plot if a proposed third movie happens.
Lars Hjortshøj (Journey to Saturn/Rejsen til Saturn (2008)) and Tina Bilsbo (Langt fra Las Vegas (2001-02)) are hilarious as Frank and Mia's overly loving friend couple, and Iben Hjejle (High Fidelity (2000)) plays a bitchy version of herself (again.)
Klown Forever introduces to the Klown universe Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Game of Thrones (2011-16)), Adam Levine (Begin Again (2014)) and Isla Fisher (Bachelorette (2012)), who plays herself in the scene that I found to be the outrageous film's absolute funniest. - Although there are many to choose from.
The hilarities are once again directed by Mikkel Nørgaard (Klown/Klovn: The Movie). 

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2015 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]  
The Keeper of Lost Causes/Kvinden i Buret (2013) or, GRumpy and Ethnic Find a Woman in a Pressure Chamber

Watch the official trailer here, - unfortunately, it is not currently available with English subtitles

Cost: 27.1 mil. DKR/4.1µ$
Box office: Unknown
= Uncertainty
[Shot in 2014 in Los Angeles and Copenhagen, Klown Forever is produced by Hvam and Christensen's Nutmeg Movies, TV2 and with 4 mil. DKR in support from the Danish Film Institute's market arrangement. The film was shown in Cannes for selling purposes and released in Denmark on September 24th. It has so far drawn 308k admissions in Denmark, which is quite strong, but still far from the stunning 850+ thousands that paid to see the first film. It opens in Iceland and Norway on Friday 10.9.]

What do you think of Klown Forever?

Trainwreck (2015) - Amy Schumer's breakthrough is a lot of fun

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Amy Schumer and Bill Hader want your attention on the poster for Judd Apatow's Trainwreck

If you haven't heard of Trainwreck by now, you can be certain that you're not an in person. You don't know what's going on today; you're not hip, you're not riding the hip-train. Because the hip city folk of today have heard of or seen Trainwreck already.

Amy is a New Yorker single woman, who works on a trashy gossip magazine and has so far been following her father's advice of mistrusting monogamy. But as she now meets and falls for a grounded sports doctor, she begins to reevaluate her life choices.

Trainwreck is written by its star Amy Schumer (Inside Amy Schumer (2013-15)) and directed by master filmmaker Judd Apatow (Knocked Up (2007)), and in a way it's the story of a Carrie Bradshaw-like woman (of Sex and the City (1998-04) fame), without the alleviating friends, and told in a different humorous tone.
Some of the critics and pundits who seem to bellow out 'gender revolution' across the plains at the arrival of Trainwreck may have forgotten this show and a long list of other woman-lead comedies before it. That being said, Trainwreck does turn some relationship dynamics on their head, - compared to their traditional depiction, - and that is part of the film's attraction for sure.
Trainwreck is a raunch comedy and a romcom. - I think it pushes its raunch label too squarely for its first about 45 minutes (of 124); Schumer and co-stars squeeze a 'fuck' and a 'tits' in whereever possible, and it stretches some of the realism a bit, (and doesn't always result in laughter or amusement.)
But Trainwreck is still a lot of fun and an event comedy that should be seen now, as it's in its full, fresh bloom.

The details:

Schumer jumps into the major spotlight in a rare way here, and even if you hold reservations towards her going in, they will most likely come down in the course of the film. As Trainwreck came to a close in the cinema where I saw it, SPOILER audiences certainly held no laughter back as Schumer presented her cheerleader/basketball abilities. - The scene is a heart-stealer.
Trainwreck is bolstered by Bill Hader (Inside Out (2015)) as Schumer's likable new boyfriend. Other funny actors include surprisingly strong supporting performances from John Cena (12 Rounds (2009)), who puts himself out there in a part that both includes nudity and implicit homosexuality. LeBron James (Entourage (2009) TV-series) is also a lot of fun here in his big screen debut. Tilda Swinton (Broken Flowers (2005)) is more mean and sociopathic than fun. She is rejoined with Film Excess favorite Ezra Miller (We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)), who has a memorable, sexy and strange scene towards the end.
Trainwreck is Apatow's 5th big screen movie to date, and though I really like it, I still like his four other movies more.

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The 40 Year-Old Virgin (2005) or, Let the Sunshine In
The Cable Guy (1996) - Stiller's dark comedy is a riot (producer)

 Watch the trailer for the movie here

Cost: 35 mil. $
Box office: 137.7 mil. $ and counting
= Big hit
[Trainwreck was filmed in May-August 2014 in New York and on Long Island. It premiered at the South by Southwest Film Festival and opened to stellar reviews and a 30 mil. $ opening weekend, Apatow's second-best to date, behind Knocked Up with 30.6 mil. $. It has grossed 108.7 mil. $ in North America to date, the large majority of its gross. Schumer has established herself in America, but the surrounding world is still hesitant, (or just slow.) Trainwreck is 85 % certified fresh with a 7.2 average on Rotten Tomatoes.]

What do you think of Trainwreck?