. . . but it wouldn’t hurt . . .
Watching the new movie on Comedy Central: it’s silly and juvenile and hits you over the head like a, ummm, hammer . . . But there have been some brilliantly funny bits. too. My favorite was the Whining Scale (“Buddhist . . . Dying Person . . . Jew”).
Anyone else watching? Adam Goldberg, soch a bubbelah.
I thought it was pretty funny. My favorite part was the cameo of Melvin Van Peebles (writer, director and star of Sweet Sweetback’s Baaaadass Song) when he walks up to Adam in front of the neo-nazi bar Adam’s about to blow up and says to him “You kickin’ ass, brother!” That and the midget from Me, Myself and Irene.
I am such an early-to-bed person that I didn’t watch it last night.
But it is on this afternoon and I plan to see it then. The title alone is enough to hook me. And yeah. Adam Goldberg.
Well, in retrospect, it was kinda like mid-level Mel Brooks: mostly really dumb junior-high humor, with an occasional moment of sheer brilliance.
I would like to have Adam Goldberg over for a zetz, if he’d go for a gezunteh moid like me . . .
Question about Goldberg-- Is he the same guy that played Chandler’s crazy roommate and/or the guy the German soldier knifed so excruciatingly in Saving Private Ryan? I know he was the poor dweeb who got beat up in Dazed and Confused.
If he’s all these guys, then I will have to watch this movie.
Biggirl
Don’t know about Chandler’s crazy roommate, but the answer to the other questions is yes.
You will either enjoy it or be hugely offended, as there’s a lot of Blaxplotation parody, too.
My Pelvic Affiliate wanted to see this; as a Shiksa, would she appreciate it? FWIW, she’s into Brit-coms and likes Blaxploitation flicks.
I’m sure she’d appreciate it, especially if she’s had some exposure through you to get some of the stereotypes and in-jokes.
Like a lot of the so-called comedies of today you have to remember all the great jokes, one-liners, and allusions and will yourself to forget the cheap, repetitive, and juvenile humor. If you can do that, I’d say it was a resounding success.
And I don’t know how they made odd-looking, pale-skinned, ungainly Judy Greer into such a sex object, but that was a resounding success too. And for you other-desirings, doesn’t Adam Goldberg have the best body of any comedian this side of Joe Piscopo?