Rare is the comedy movie that kills from start to finish.
Cedar Rapids deserved MUCH wider release. It was worth the drive from the South Bay to Burbank to see. This easily could have come out in summer or the holidays.
I can't believe all these posts panning it. The audience rolled in the aisles. We have a comedy classic on our hands here. Wholly underrated.
Funniest movie that there's not much access to, and that's the bottom line.
I don't recall anything worth rolling in the aisles over. There were a few good lines. I did a minor 'LOL' at the crippled kid joke. And tho I sat 'bemused' here and there, the audiance mainly guffawed every time somebody said a harder swear word than 'damn'. Seemed like I was sitting with a polite crowd of socialites who didnt hear stuff like that on a regular basis and thus found hilarity in it. I hang out with a more seasoned group I guess. I give it credit for its subversive moments, but overall I wouldnt buy the blu-ray to see it again.
"Pffft, my suspension of disbelief has higher standards than that"
I agree I must be hating comedy then because I did not laugh at all and neither did anyone else in the audience. It's the first time I've gone to watch a comedy and it's been dead quiet in the theatre (and I went to see dude where's my car). We might as well have been watching Schindler's List. If this is what comedies are like then I want no part of it.
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Some people just don't have a sense of humor, but that is fine, because plenty do.
shareI was laughing non-stop throughout the movie, but you need to realize that everyone has a different laugh on things. I would maybe categorize this movie towards the "dark comedy" section, this is because many of the jokes were very dark but its not a joke that you laugh loudly to but rather a joke you kinds of laugh inside your head.
Comedy is based on something that the person who is watching/hearing can relate, so maybe you could really relate or enjoy this type of comedy, but the other posters don't enjoy this type comedy.
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frickin' hilarious movie. john c. reilly was funny & not funny like in 'stepbrothers,' 'walk hard,' and ferrel's nascar movie. whitlock's strait-laced black guy in the party scene in the redneck house was probably the funniest scene in the movie. the noise from laughter in the audience was the loudest after whitlock's scene........
ed helms as lippe was great. you really believed that lippe was socially immature and a wide-eyed novice; especially lippe's interaction with sigourney weaver's macy. lippe wanted a romantic relationship with macy but it was more a mother-son situation. lippe was too immature to realize it..........
stay for the scenes during and after the credits, too. what's an anorexic with a yeast infection????
Couldn't have said it better. This is a really unique, classic comedy that thankfully doesn't try to cater to the masses.
"They're the doughnut people."
~ Henry Fool
You nailed it. You got to be able to let go to laugh out loud in a crowd to some of this humour, and some people just don't get it, or they're easily offended. I have friends with many different tastes in comedy and I reckon this movie would be a miss with a couple of them, some would not get all the jokes but still enjoy the most obvious stuff, but that's fine, we're all different, folks!
shareI don't think it's about being easily offended: I laugh my ass off at Louis CK and Chris Rock. It's just that this movie was PAINFULLY not funny. And the acting was horrible, esp. John C. Reilly. Everytime he told a "joke", he paused weirdly, like he was waiting for an audience to clap or laugh.
shareI agree... fresh, original, and AWESOME this movie is the best comedy script since Super Bad
"It's either clubbin or Fandango!"
John C. Reilly = NOT FUNNY
shareWhat awesome characters, quirky yet innocent and appealing.
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I'm a fan of many of the people in the movie, but this was the most unfunny "comedy" I have seen in a long time. The attempts at humor weren't subtle at all and most fell completely flat. I guess maybe that was the joke, but it didn't go over very well to me. And it's weird that the funniest actor/comedian in the movie (Mike Birbiglia, the hotel clerk) didn't get to say anything funny. Big disappointment.
sharehe was pretty much the only entertaining part of the movie
shareThat's got to be the stupidest thing i've ever read.
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shareHell yeah he was funny. He stole the show single handedly for me.
He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither ~ B. Franklinshare
Really? I thought it was surprisingly unfunny to be a comedy. It was a pretty sweet movie, but the only part I remember laughing at John C Reilly in the pool. Otherwise it was just not funny.
"Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down. Makes her home."
I made it through about 35 mins of this movie and gave up. The comedy is just too weak for my taste I guess. No point in further subjecting myself or my time to such a thing. Oh well.
What Kind of supreme being condones such irony
Wow, people thinking John C Reilly with a bin lid on his head is the ONLY funny thing in this film clearly have the sense of humour of a three year old. There are plenty of very funny scenes in this film and it's refreshing that it doesn't have to try as hard as the average hollywood comedy does these days.
shareNaw, it was more the entire scene. Drunk and happy people usually make me laugh. And if it wasn't supposed to be funny, why do you think they put it in the movie, this supposedly adult masterpiece of comedy...
And what in the movie did you find so funny? Please tell me. I can't think of any line or scene that was particularly funny. It's still a good movie, just not a good comedy.
"Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down. Makes her home."
I love most comedies, and this one was just "OK", nothing too over the top and nothing that hasn't been done before. It wasn't great, wasn't terrible.
shareI would say its more of a drama and a comedy. Possibly maybe one or two smiles through the whole film, what a disappointment and a waste of time.
I just watched it and also found it wasn't really a comedy. It looked like it would be better considering the cast, but I didn't find myself laughing very much. I guess it's not my kind of movie - definitely not one I'd watch again or recommend to friends.
shareJohn C Reilly plays every character with such a playful & silly demeanor. He's hilarious.
shareI must hate comedy then. I teed this up while on a flight across the Pacific - it was horrid. After about 35 minutes, I shut it off. Looking out the window at the clouds and seeing bits of ocean from time to time was much more interesting than watching this stinker.
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