Featuring:
You Don't Mess with the Zohan
You Kill Me
Zombieland
You Don't Mess With the Zohan
(2008)
Awful film, even by Adam Sandler’s low
standards. The only decent thing here is John Turturro (and gets it a single
star). The nadir is reached when Sandler is servicing queues of impassioned old
women at the hair salon he works at. This is, of course, hilarious, and my guts
burst asunder to prove it.
*
You Kill Me
(2007)
Quirky John Dahl noir (does he ever do
anything but?) comedy with Sir King Bensley on fine form as an alcoholic hitman.
With support from Luke Wilson and Tea Leoni. It's all quite slight, though, and
Grosse Point Blank ran with similar
themes much more effectively.
***
Zombieland
(2009)
Energetically scripted
and enthusiastically directed (and with a good ear for music when it doesn't go
into metal overload) zombie comedy. The relationship arcs are strictly routine
but fortunately don't grate. Woody Harrelson's on fine form and the cameo is as good as it's cracked up to be.
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