satire
08/16/2007
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
Co-starring a nearly unrecognizable Jenna Fischer, Walk Hard appears to have considerably more visual flair than producer Apatow's previous films (due, one assumes, to the direction of Jake Kasdan, who also co-wrote the script). Whether the world really needs a parody of music bio-pics isn't clear -- but with an original soundtrack of catchy tunes and Reilly singing them, it's suitable entertainment for all the Millers out there. Maybe even the Joneses, too. Not the Smiths, though. Screw those guys.
06/11/2007
THE TEN: Watch out for bolts of lightning
From the minds behind The State and Wet Hot American Summer comes this collection of vignettes about the Ten Commandments, narrated by indie dreamboat Paul Rudd. The cast is impressive (and large), with everybody from dramatic heavy-hitters like Liev Schreiber and Oliver Platt to youthful eye candy like Jessica Alba and Adam Brody. But more importantly, it's a comedy that might actually be funny.
With Schrieber coveting his neighbor's CAT scan machine, Ken Marino as a surgeon who murders "as a goof," and -- going by the uncensored trailer up at DotComedy -- what looks like an awful lot of dick jokes, this movie looks like a pretty good time.
