Judd Apatow
Movie Review: The Bubble
"The Bubble" is a comedy from Judd Apatow that struggles to find something to funny to say about the pandemic but instead feels formless, stale and desperate.
Movie Review: Trainwreck
Judd Apatow is the maestro of the dick joke, the current reigning king of gross-out humor, and the guy who brought you all those hey-bro-let’s-get-drunk-and-get-laid movies. But Apatow’s secret weapon, and the likely reason for his broad appeal, is that he’s admittedly a family-values guy at heart. From The 40-Year-Old Virgin to This Is 40, the binge drinking and drug use and sexcapades in Apatow ...[Read More]
Movie Review: This Is 40
This is 40 takes us back to Pete (Paul Rudd), wife Debbie (Leslie Mann) and daughters Sadie and Charlotte (Mann and writer/director Judd Apatow’s real-life children Maude and Iris) who we meet up with again five years after the events of Knocked Up. Apparently turning 40 means it’s midlife-crisis time, and this couple both hit the landmark birthday the same week, though Debbie is in denial, ...[Read More]
Movie Review: Wanderlust
Let me get this out of the way. Yes, Jennifer Aniston goes topless in Wanderlust and no, you can’t see anything. If that’s all you wanted from this review, there you go. If you want more, read on. In Wanderlust, Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston star as a married couple taking a big step with their life by buying an apartment in one of Manhattan’s more expensive neighborhoods. While purchasing the “m...[Read More]
Movie Review: Zookeeper
If the goal of the lead actor, Kevin James, and director, Frank Coraci, of Zookeeper was to make a better movie than Paul Blart, Mall Cop, they succeeded. This movie is indeed better than earlier Kevin James outings. If an audience’s goal is to see something light and fun that is out of the superhero genre that seems to have taken over the multiplexes this year, then they should give it a shot. If...[Read More]