![]() It doesn’t matter than it doesn’t seem to have any idea who its audience is, because it actually believes that a little bit of something for anyone above the age of 12 is totally fine. Movies like Bad Neighbours - aka Neighbors in North America - aren’t a mess by accident, then, but by design, such as that design is. It might even work! But it is an empty experience. It makes rattles for grownups that to shake in your face and make you stop crying about whatever is bothering you. ![]() It makes scarecrows to shoo you away from any actual thought that might demand more than two seconds of your attention. Hollywood hopes that you won’t care that some of the attempts at comedy demand that you understand human nature, and that some of it desperately wishes that you will pretend you don’t know how people and the world work, even if both kinds of joking is present at the same time. Hollywood figures you don’t care if Scene A doesn’t much connect to Scene B, and that Scene C doesn’t build on either as it delivers what it hopes you will take as a punchline to both. Instead, it simply throws a ton of stuff up against the wall and hopes that some of it momentarily distracts you into involuntary laughter, in the same way that stubbing your toe momentarily distracts you with pain. (what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto) ![]() I’m “biast” (con): not a fan of grossout humor I’m “biast” (pro): I like Zac Efron and Rose Byrne, and I’m starting to warm to Seth Rogen ![]()
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