I don't understand how this movie is getting all these good reviews saying how "charming" and "intellectual" it is. This was probably the worst movie I've seen in my life.
This movie was so poorly written, acted, and directed that it made me sick. The plot is so forced and dull that the audience doesn't care. How cliché is the fact that they need to save the old building? And the whole paranoid eccentric Jack Black character is so overdone. The dialogue felt like bad improv (did they even have a script?). The first 30 mins dragged on like nails on a chalkboard.
I love a good stupid Jack Black movie as much as the next guy (loved Nacho Libre), but this movie is so ridiculously stupid that I think I lost brain cells. The fact that Fatts Waller actually wasn't born in that building but then they decide that they can make up their own story and completely fabricate the past because Mia Farrow says "hey, our past is ours so it can be whatever we want". WHAT IS THAT? What kind of message is that?? As for the performances, I can't say there was anyone who stood out. Jack Black was playing typical Jack Black, Mos Def was bland, Danny Glover was ehhh, Mia Farrow was so unlikable and stock, and that Melonie Diaz made me want to stab out my eyes. I've never seen such a poor performance before. All her lines seemed like she didn't know what she was saying and was just ad libbing. I've never wanted to punch an actor for their work like I want to punch her.
The only good part of this movie was the Ghostbusters homage, which wasn't funny because we'd already seen it in the previews a million times.
This movie is a disgrace to cinema.
This movie was so poorly written, acted, and directed that it made me sick. The plot is so forced and dull that the audience doesn't care. How cliché is the fact that they need to save the old building? And the whole paranoid eccentric Jack Black character is so overdone. The dialogue felt like bad improv (did they even have a script?). The first 30 mins dragged on like nails on a chalkboard.
I love a good stupid Jack Black movie as much as the next guy (loved Nacho Libre), but this movie is so ridiculously stupid that I think I lost brain cells. The fact that Fatts Waller actually wasn't born in that building but then they decide that they can make up their own story and completely fabricate the past because Mia Farrow says "hey, our past is ours so it can be whatever we want". WHAT IS THAT? What kind of message is that?? As for the performances, I can't say there was anyone who stood out. Jack Black was playing typical Jack Black, Mos Def was bland, Danny Glover was ehhh, Mia Farrow was so unlikable and stock, and that Melonie Diaz made me want to stab out my eyes. I've never seen such a poor performance before. All her lines seemed like she didn't know what she was saying and was just ad libbing. I've never wanted to punch an actor for their work like I want to punch her.
The only good part of this movie was the Ghostbusters homage, which wasn't funny because we'd already seen it in the previews a million times.
This movie is a disgrace to cinema.