nelsonmuntz
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I watched Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates last night. This movie should have been the Hangover for Millenials, and instead is a sloppy mess of a movie with two solid SNL skits dropped into the middle to save it from being a complete disaster.
The premise of the brothers being out of control, looking for wedding dates online and finding two degenerate girls pretending to be good is really funny. There are two A list stars in Efron and Kendrick, with solid supporting names in Devine and Plaza. The supporting cast, Sam Richardson, Kumil Nanjiani, Allice Wetterlund, Stephen Root, is pretty good for the most part.
The massage scene and ATV trip are very funny. There are a few clever lines of dialogue in the rest of the movie but otherwise it is dead air. Efron underacts and Devine overacts the whole movie. I am not clear what to make of Kendrick's character, and Plaza's character is so unlikable that the plot would have made more sense if Devine's character told her to buzz off at the end of the movie. This is the kind of movie where you get to the end and wonder why it wasn't a lot better.
Any others?
The premise of the brothers being out of control, looking for wedding dates online and finding two degenerate girls pretending to be good is really funny. There are two A list stars in Efron and Kendrick, with solid supporting names in Devine and Plaza. The supporting cast, Sam Richardson, Kumil Nanjiani, Allice Wetterlund, Stephen Root, is pretty good for the most part.
The massage scene and ATV trip are very funny. There are a few clever lines of dialogue in the rest of the movie but otherwise it is dead air. Efron underacts and Devine overacts the whole movie. I am not clear what to make of Kendrick's character, and Plaza's character is so unlikable that the plot would have made more sense if Devine's character told her to buzz off at the end of the movie. This is the kind of movie where you get to the end and wonder why it wasn't a lot better.
Any others?