POSITIVES…
As a comedy, I highly enjoyed this movie’s fun sense of humor, comedic timing, running jokes, and visual gags.
The dialogue is excellent! You know how I complain when movies do banter and bickering just for the sake of the fact that it’s supposed to be automatically entertaining, and then it’s not? THIS is how you do good bantering and bickering, that is actually fun to listen to! Well done movie!
Fantastic use of pop culture references and social commentaries. The way the conversation just randomly segue into them are really fun.
Far and away, Kumail Nanjiani and Issa Rae makes this movie so much fun to watch, as Jibran and Leilani. It’s really entertaining to see these two work so well together here.
Part of the fun charm of this movie is seeing how Jibran and Leilani react to the situations they encounter.
Speaking of situations, there are a lot of set pieces that really knows how to work in that comedy to make the most obvious scenarios into a fun time, like some particular chase scene, diner scene, interrogation scene, and more.
With the story being so fun as it is, it was easy for me to get invested in where the mystery was taking Jibran and Leilani, and to see what’s going to happen to the couple.
Despite some familiar grounds covered, it seemed to have that self-awareness to know what it is, and used that to its own advantage. This is a well made fun movie to watch! I shouldn’t have expected anything less from Michael Showalter; the Director of “The Big Sick.”
NEGATIVES…
There’s a sense of familiarity and derivativeness to the plot.
Remember, comedy is subjective.
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