First of all, I have to admit, I dig Aubrey Plaza. She is easily one of the best things to come o out of the show “Parks and Rec”. I loved “Safety Not Guaranteed” last summer. Needless to say, I was actually looking forward to “The To Do List”. I’m a little past the whole teen sex comedy genre, but I figured Plaza would be enough to make it fun.
I could not have been more wrong. Continue reading Aubrey Plaza and great cast can’t save dumb ‘To Do List’
What would you do if you could go back in time and change one thing about your life? Would you go back far enough to change an entire timeline and cause a dramatic shakeup in your fate or would you go back and tweak one little thing that may nor may not cause any dramatic changes in your life or the lives around you? In “Safety Not Guaranteed”, the question of whether or not we control our fate and how much we dwell in the past is the driving question of the movie.
Continue reading ‘Safety Not Guaranteed’ (2012) movie review
Who’s in it?: Donald Glover (TV’s Community), Bobby Moynihan (Saturday Night Live), Aubrey Plaza (TV’s Parks and Rec) and D.C. Pierson.
I’m not going to lie to you. This movie is dumb. If you see it, it will be one of the dumbest-assed movies you will have seen or may ever see. And sadly that’s the beauty of it. I’d never heard of it until I watched it. I only found out about it because I read an article about Donald Glover, who is going to be one of the funniest mother fuckers on the planet very soon. If you don’t watch Community on NBC you should because Glover is brilliant on that show, and also that show is hilarious.
The movie is a very low budget comedy about three friends who are all total dip shits. When they were little kids they started solving neighborhood crimes. They called themselves the Mystery Team and everyone loved them. Then they grew up but they never actually grew-up, ya get it? So the story kicks off when this little girl hires The Mystery Team to find out who killed her parents and the boys get drawn into an actual mystery.
Like I said the Mystery Team is dumb — well naive might be the right world. It’s a coming of age story where these morons have to come to terms with the reality that there is a very adult world out there.
But it adds to the charm of the movie, which is pretty funny in a stupid dead-pan way. There are several well written funny moments but a lot of it is really pretty stupid. Some of the acting is pretty awful but really overall its a somewhat clever movie.This flick is so low budget that it looks like these guys grabbed a camera, called some friends who wanted to act (some of whom were also slightly famous) and made the shit up as they went along.