Category Comedy

The Christmas Chronicles 2

This sequel to the “Christmas Chronicles”, this time directed by Chris Columbus, which I admit, rather anxious to see, left me completely unmoved. Indeed, since I was very pleasantly surprised by the first one, I expected a film in the same vein but it’s just pretty bad. Especially since this one is made by Columbus, I had even more expectations! In short, Teddy and Kate are celebrating Christmas this time in the Bahamas but Kate doesn’t like it, she prefers to celebrate Christmas around a hot chocolate and a fireplace. Until then all is well then, until we are invented an old story with an elf in the middle of a teenage crisis who becomes human (boo the greedy and selfish evil humans) who will attract Kate and her brother-in-law to the Santa Claus village. Once again, then, we will have to save Christmas but if the first one was rather original, here everything becomes very cutesy. The first one was also a little silly at times (it’s Christmas at the same time, the family spirit, all that, all that) but there we are so in the stupidity that it becomes really very boring. Suddenly, we follow the adventures of Kate and Santa Claus with a certain boredom because the story is not original and oh so predictable. The “bad guy” has absolutely no charisma, he is even very difficult to bear (his hateful air in particular plays a role in it) and then Jack and Mother Christmas are useless, except to fill the gaps narrative, like most of the secondary characters. Oh yes, Mother Christmas knows how to cook, tell stories and dreams of having kids like any perfect good housewife. It’s very soft, not much is happening, we have a lot of unnecessary scenes, especially the one in the airport which has absolutely nothing to do with the plot and then the end moral which is, like the rest, unbearable and predictable; today we play a lot on acceptance in blended families in particular (add to that the laughable scene in which Jack understands that the snowman cake is useless and that he was able to find the courage himself, blablabla ). We also have the inconsistencies which, even if we are less careful about it with regard to the Christmas films, still make a mark here, in particular when the sled appears above a beach and disappears in a green portal. fluo, apparently it bothers no one. As far as the actors are concerned, we find Kurt Russell and Darby Camp, Judah Lewis is no longer useful (too old I imagine, we really wanted two kids to do even more silly and “Kwismas magic”) and as well as Goldie Hawn, Jazhir Bruno etc. and then Tyrese Gibson, we know he’s there but we don’t know why, if not to bring a little social diversity in a very white family (we are not going to lie to each other either, it fucks her well, especially with the progressive discourse of Netflix)...

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Fatman

A rowdy, unorthodox Santa Claus struggles with his business decline...

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Freaky

17-year-old Millie Kessler, busy putting on a good face at her elitist high school, Blissfield High, becomes the new target of The Butcher, a notorious serial killer...

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Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3

Released in April 2017, Guardians of the Galaxy 2 ends with several post-credits scenes, a tradition at Marvel. If these sequences are sometimes quite anecdotal, even useless, those of the Guardians have the merit of questioning us, in particular on the characters that we will see in the continuation of the MCU...

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Irresistible

Gary Zimmer (Steve Carrell) is a Democratic political consultant struggling to recover from Donald Trump’s surprise victory. Discovering on YouTube the video of a retired colonel (Chris Cooper) who stood in front of the city council of his small town of Wisconsin, solidly Republican, to defend the undocumented, he decided to sponsor his candidacy for the next municipal elections. Even if the reception of his guests is hospitable, the change of scenery is harsh for Gary who has to give up his taste for luxury. The campaign soon took on a national dimension and attracted another consultant, the formidable Faith Brewster (Rose Byrne) who worked for the Republicans. There are two parts to “Irresistible”. The first lasts an hour and a half. She will delight bobos like me who would have voted with both hands, if they had been able, for Hillary Clinton in 2016 and do not understand the support enjoyed by Donal Trump in deep America, perhaps for want of it. lived long enough and master the codes. This first part, a little predictable, is organized around a double rapprochement. On the one hand, the arrogant consultant, disembarked from the capital, abandons one after the other his habits and his prejudices towards deep America. On the other hand, the small town of Deerlake will gradually shift into the Democratic camp to offer our hero a victorious happy ending. The last ten minutes contradict these forecasts. This is the second part of the film about which I have already said too much by revealing its existence. The meaning of “Irresistible” is completely overturned. It is no longer an anti-Trump elegy but on the contrary a populist fable, criticizing politicians of all stripes, the elitism of professionals in political marketing with so-called scientific techniques but with mediocre results, the money king which makes and undoes the elections, the frenzy of the electoral campaigns as quick to poll the voters as to ignore them once the ballot is over...

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Scooby !

In SCOOBY !, we discover how Scooby and Sammy, lifelong friends, met and teamed up with budding detectives Fred, Velma and Daphné to create the famous Mystère et Cie team...

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Hubie Halloween

Hubie is not very popular in his hometown of Massachusetts...

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The Witches

In this new adaptation of Roald Dahl’s masterpiece, Zemeckis tells the funny, scathing and moving story of Bruno, a young orphan. In 1967, he came to live with his adorable grandmother in the small rural town of Demopolis, Alabama. While the little boy and his grandma cross paths with witches as seductive as they are formidable, the grandmother leads our budding hero to a sumptuous seaside resort...

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Drunk

Four friends decide to put into practice the theory of a Norwegian psychologist according to which a man has a deficiency of alcohol in his blood from birth...

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The Croods: A New Age

The Croods have survived their share of dangers and disasters, but now they will face their biggest challenge: meeting another family...

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