Hello once again! I am Travis of the movie encyclopedia and this is Trailer Talk Thursday where I bring you the latest trailers to hit the silver screen.
Comedies nowadays tend to be hard for me. Mel Brooks is busy with Broadway, Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker have dissapeared or keep making crappy movie after crappy movie, Judd Apatow is hit or miss and really the best comedy directors seemingly today are either actors (Ben Stiller with Tropic Thunder) or writers turned directors (Steve Pink with Hot Tub Time Machine). But one person I forgot to mention is someone who has jumped up and down the spectrum of good and bad directing and that is Jay Roach.
Jay Roach is probably best known for two series: The "Meet the..." series and the "Austin Powers" series. Now the Austin Powers series was pretty good altogether but individually it had some highs and lows. The first one was brilliant, the second was not that good and the third was just okay. But altogether they were still good. As for the Meet the series it's been hard. I WANT to love both films but I can't. Meet the Parents is funny but not ROTFLOL funny. The same goes for Meet the Fockers...funny but not ROTFLOL funny.
And now we have a new film from Jay Roach! The only problem is that if the trailer is the best the movie can offer...we're screwed.
A remake of the 1998 award winning dark comedy "The Dinner Game" the story follows Tim (Paul Rudd), a business man in corporate America with a good life who is on the verge of having everything he ever wanted. The only thing standing in his way: a dinner for idiots. Basically the business men have to lure strange and eccentric people to a dinner so that they can make fun of them and verbally abuse them thus humiliating them. Tim's girlfriend thinks it's cruel and doesn't want him to do it, but then his solution just hits him...literally. Barry (Steve Carrell) is an IRS employee but he is also geeky, weird, a "tornado of destruction" and most of all...an idiot. But as they become closer will Tim have to choose between friendship or his job?
The premise sounds good. The actors seem good (Paul Rudd is always solid, Steve Carrell is a great idiot and Zach Galifianakis is always so oddly hilarious) and so it SHOULD work. The only thing is I didn't laugh once. Maybe it's the whole "wait for the red band" thing or maybe it really is JUST NOT FUNNY. Hopefully it's the former but really I can't be too sure. This COULD be a really funny movie but hopefully this trailer is just a very small taste of what's to come and the actual thing is much better.
But that's just what I think. Comment down below and tell me what you think and I will see you all next time on Trailer Talk Thursday.
