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3, 2, 1... Frankie Go Boom (2012)
"Frankie Go Boom" (original title)

 -  Comedy  -  10 March 2012 (USA)
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Frank Bartlett has been tortured, embarrassed, and humiliated by his brother Bruce -- usually on film -- his entire life. Now that Bruce is finally off drugs and has turned his life around, things should be different. They are not.

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Frank Bartlett has been tortured, embarrassed, and humiliated by his brother Bruce -- usually on film -- his entire life. Now that Bruce is finally off drugs and has turned his life around, things should be different. They are not.

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Not painfully bad, just bad.
2 October 2012 | by (United States) – See all my reviews

This is another one of those little micro-budget comedies that you'll probably only end up seeing if you really like one or two of the cast members and then you'll quickly forget about when it's over. The ensemble is great on paper, with reliable names like Charlie Hunnam, Chris O'Dowd, Lizzy Caplan and Ron Perlman filling out the main roster -- but it's just such a flat and forgettable journey. Hunnam is the only one who brings much of a spark to his time on screen, but he's often dragged down by the weakness of the script and the poorly written characters around him. Not to say that his character is written any better, he's just one big cliché of the constantly crapped on victim in his '20s and the film doesn't ever try to remove him from that area.

Written and directed by Jordan Roberts, 3, 2, 1... Frankie Go Boom is mostly just a disappointment, as I found myself sitting and thinking about what kind of great under-the-radar comedy could have been created with such quality actors at its disposable. Instead this fits more in tune with that last word, an utterly disposable journey with no genuine laughs and maybe a few mild chuckles, primarily thanks to the few scenes with Hunnam and Ron Perlman, going majorly against type here as an ex-con in drag. I like this cast a whole lot and kept wanting it to deliver something worthy of their talents, but there's a reason this feels like it's been sitting on the shelf for years (given how Hunnam looks, it seems like it was shot at least half a decade ago).


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