unfunny comedies Archives - Alternate Ending

Ticket to Paradise (2022)

Tim Brayton — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 02:09:22 +0000

In the 2001 masterpiece of big-budget studio fluff Ocean's Eleven, George Clooney and Julia Roberts co-starred as bickering ex-spouses, whose sharp-tongued acrimony was so clever and adorable a...

The post Ticket to Paradise (2022) appeared first on Alternate Ending.

Amsterdam (2022)

Mike D'Angelo — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 18:04:27 +0000

Hollywood has been battling nightmarish politics with goofy antics for just about as long as cinema has existed. Hell, even the Third Reich inspired its share of comedy classics—not merely decades later (as in, say, The Amsterdam (2022) appeared first on Alternate Ending.

Not Okay (2022)

Mandy Albert — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 17:01:47 +0000

Not Okay, the Hulu-based sophomore effort from actress-writer-director Quinn Shephard, opens with a much-discussed “content warning” that the film we are about to experience contains “flashing lights, themes of traum...

The post Not Okay (2022) appeared first on Alternate Ending.

Underdog (2007)

Tim Brayton — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 01:04:00 +0000

Every week this summer, we'll be taking an historical tour of the Hollywood blockbuster by examining an older film that is in some way a spiritual precursor to one of the weekend's wide releases. This week: in addition to having the most soullessly branded title of ...

The post Underdog (2007) appeared first on Alternate Ending.

DC League of Super-Pets (2022)

Tim Brayton — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 04:10:37 +0000

To begin with, I find the very title of DC League of Super-Pets unpleasantly provocative. Not the League of Super-Pets part; that's mostly just describing the content, though I might wonder why the film bothered to so subtly rename the comic book DC League of Super-Pets (2022) appeared first on Alternate Ending.

Lightyear (2022)

Tim Brayton — Wed, 22 Jun 2022 04:19:39 +0000

Lightyear, the 26th feature film produced by Pixar Animation studios and easily the worst one that has no talking cars in it, opens with two title cards relaying the following information: "In 1995, a boy named Andy got a Buzz Lightyear toy for his birthday. It was from his favorite movie. ...

The post Lightyear (2022) appeared first on Alternate Ending.

Don’t Look Up (2021)

Tim Brayton — Mon, 27 Dec 2021 08:19:23 +0000

It was, I believe, my father who introduced me to the phrase "he thinks his shit don't stink" as a pithy way of denigrating the kind of person who is arrogantly convinced of their righteous infallibility. I will not say of writer-director Adam McKay, and his newest film, Don't Look Up, that...

The post Don’t Look Up (2021) appeared first on Alternate Ending.

Cinderella (2021)

Tim Brayton — Tue, 07 Sep 2021 06:42:42 +0000

TIM: Welcome all to a very special Alternate Ending review. Our subject for today is the latest adaptation of the fairy tale Cinderella, this one prepared by Sony for a planned theatrical release that got squashed like so many others by the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead, it ha...

The post Cinderella (2021) appeared first on Alternate Ending.

Free Guy (2021)

Tim Brayton — Wed, 18 Aug 2021 05:27:27 +0000

Free Guy is a film that lives and dies on one consideration: how much do you like Ryan Reynolds's "thing"? I have grown to dislike it very much. But by all available evidence the movie has turned out to be one of 2021's most successful crowdpleasers, as one of the few releases in the post- ...

The post Free Guy (2021) appeared first on Alternate Ending.

Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021)

Tim Brayton — Thu, 22 Jul 2021 07:18:06 +0000

We've got to start somewhere, so why not with the question that I've been kicking around in my head since I finished Space Jam: A New Legacy: how can anyone worship a God vindictive and hateful enough to allow this movie to exist? No wait, that's the other question I've been kickin...

The post Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021) appeared first on Alternate Ending.