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31 July 2009 (USA) morePlot:
When seasoned comedian George Simmons learns of his terminal, inoperable health condition, his desire to form a genuine friendship cause him to take a relatively green performer under his wing as his opening act. full summary | add synopsisNewsDesk:
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"Funny People" - Plenty new images in from the Universal Pictures dramedy. (From Movie Jungle. 17 July 2009, 8:40 AM, PDT)
Adam Sandler's Hilarious Sayonara Davey Clip
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Too much funding and artistic freedom yield a dud moreCast
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Rated R for language and crude sexual humor throughout, and some sexuality.Parents Guide:
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Leslie Mann plays mother to her real-life daughters (with director Judd Apatow) Maude Apatow and Iris Apatow, just as she did in Knocked Up (2007). moreQuotes:
Dr. Lars: It's too early to know who's winning the fight: the medicine or the disease.George Simmons: Did anybody ever tell you, you have a very scary accent?
Dr. Lars: You are a very funny man. I enjoy your movies.
George Simmons: And I enjoy all of your movies.
Dr. Lars: [surprised] Which movies?
George Simmons: The ones where you try to kill Bruce Willis.
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Ugh.
"Funny People" screams of this: Writer/director Judd Apatow's recent commercial success has allowed him bigger budget and—most disastrously—unchecked artistic freedom on this latest effort. The result is a muddled, overly ambitious and in-no-way-compelling mess that proves every writer needs an editor.
"Funny People" will make you angry. It's devoid of the heart it so desperately wants to prove it's got. Here Apatow's characteristic brand of raunch-sweetened-with-heart comedy devolves into crude, malicious schlock. And we've seen everything here before and done much better: Adam Sandler trying to prove his dramatic muscle, Seth Rogen as hapless eyewitness to a band of juveniles posing as adults, loving close-ups of Leslie Mann and her daughters, semi-autobiographical details of Apatow's career in comedy.
Obviously, Apatow couldn't step away from the work w/enough objectivity to cut anything: There are multiple series of affectionate but pointless cameos designed as "thank yous" to Apatow's real life mentors, side characters who promise to figure later but whom Apatow can only cut as he chokes under the "Love Actually syndrome" of too many sub-plots, ephiphanies, and life-lessons.
Try this: Treat "Funny People" as a drinking game. Every time Adam Sandler mentions the length of his or any other character's member, every time someone threatens another's testicles: Drink up. With luck, you'll be so drunk by the time the credits roll at 2 hours, 25 mins, you'll be able to forgive yourself as I can't for sitting through this flop.