PAINT is as bad as you imagined it might be. It's miscast. Owen Wilson does nothing more to disappear in this role as Carl Nargle (Bob Ross) than lower his voice and cover his head with a cosplay curly fro. Nargle's supposed to be from Vermont. All you hear is Owen's Dallas drawl. You never see the character he was supposed to be portraying -- you only see Owen from Night at the Museum and Wedding Crashers. This movie wishes it was that memorable and funny.
Every single joke in this movie falls flat. The screenwriters even found a way to make comedienne Wendi McClendon-Covey unfunny. And there's so much dead air when a joke is hurled -- a long beat begging for the laugh. It was uncomfortable to watch.
Flashbacks are overused to tell a large part of the story that is both irrelevant and inconsequential. Worse, the de-aging used in the flashbacks was so unnecessary and disturbing to the natural flow of the story.
The entire movie felt like a dress rehearsal that should've never been filmed -- let alone released to theaters instead of going straight to streaming.
"Paint" is permanently etched onto my Top 10 Worst Movies of 2023 List.
Every single joke in this movie falls flat. The screenwriters even found a way to make comedienne Wendi McClendon-Covey unfunny. And there's so much dead air when a joke is hurled -- a long beat begging for the laugh. It was uncomfortable to watch.
Flashbacks are overused to tell a large part of the story that is both irrelevant and inconsequential. Worse, the de-aging used in the flashbacks was so unnecessary and disturbing to the natural flow of the story.
The entire movie felt like a dress rehearsal that should've never been filmed -- let alone released to theaters instead of going straight to streaming.
"Paint" is permanently etched onto my Top 10 Worst Movies of 2023 List.