Brett Garten, Movie Extraordinare
Cinematic Sommelier
6.9
The tension in this one is UNREAL… the cognitive dissonance second to none! Just in time for us millennials raised on “Barney” coming of age. Giving the strange guy who directed the “too many cooks” Adult Swim sketch a feature film budget proves to be a stroke of genius here. Too many one-liners and darkly hilarious laughs to count… definitely going to hell for laughing at this one. More blood than you expect… but also more laughs.
7.7
Get ready to love a super cheesy movie that seems to stupid to believe. This wouldn’t work with any other actors. I just can’t see it landing without Rudd and Nick Jonas’s onscreen chemistry. Their comedic chops play so well off each other that it makes everything have just the right balance and believability. I really can’t believe this insane plot worked and was as entertaining and genuinely enjoyable as it was. A tale of brotherhood, the golden rule, love, family, and music – the universal language.
8.1
I’ll go as far as to say this is one of the best films of the year. It has everything. I laughed, I cried, I was on the edge of my seat most of the runtime… all of it completely unexpected. One of those delightful surprises chancing cinematic art on the big screen every week. A wonderfully warm tale of intrigue and a masterfully executed whodunnit. Take a chance on the live action sheep murder mystery movie – you won’t regret it!
7.9
Similar to “The Holdovers,” this series did such a great job of world building that I simply enjoyed hanging out at the country club for a couple of weeks while this all played out.
The summer love stories, awkward dates, lifelong friendship forging, and endless 80’s classics on the soundtrack took the caddyshack wannabe vibe and blew it out of the water.
The main problem I had was the fact that it had the most awkwardly abrupt ending this side of “Hung.” Really bummed that Prime Video pulled a Netflix here and rug pulled my could have been comfort show.
7.1
There was a “fun” involved in the first film that made it unique. A tongue in cheek sense of cleverness that subverted the genres and provided an originality that was all but gone here. Too many scenes came across as cruel in this one for me to enjoy the more fun centered moments. I was skeptical to begin with, as the first “Ready or Not” was lightning in a bottle, but this did nothing but help cement that sense of “why are we doing this” almost the entirety of the runtime.
