Showing posts with label Comedy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Comedy. Show all posts
Friday, February 17, 2012
Children's Hospital: Season 1 & 2
Genre: TV comedy
Average Netflix Rating: 3.9 stars
Synopsis: Children's Hospital explores the emotional struggles and sexual politics of a group of doctors charged with healthy libidos. Their dedication to their personal lives is relentless, interrupted only by the occasional need to treat sick children.
Take ER, Grey's Anatomy, and House and roll it all together - then make the Drs horny, stupid, and laugh out loud funny - throw in a cripple, some lesbian overtones, terminally ill children and a bloody clown who heals using only the power of laughter - and you get Children's Hospital. The key to enjoying this show is to ask how far is too far to go with humor? If it goes to far are you offended or are you laughing even harder? Children's Hospital is a smart, sexy, and slapstick take on the medical drama. The jokes range from juvenile gags of slapstick to slick one liners. What really ups the hilarity is the offensive nature of many of the jokes and plot lines. Child abuse, AIDS, 9/11, MS, cancer... All things that you might have a hard laughing about - but you will be! Children's Hospital started as an online series so the format of season 1 is fast and furious. Each episode of the first season is only 5 minutes, so the jokes come quick and there's ALOT (there are TONS of subtler jokes in background and set design) - so repeat viewing is a must! The show was so successful online, it was brought to TV and for season 2 the running time of each episode was doubled to 10 minutes. Still fast, still crazy... Pay extra attention anytime there is an announcement over the hospitals PA system - its Michael Cera with some of my favorite one liners.
Where should I put it in my Q? If you have a thick skin, and don't mind some offensive language and tasteless jokes - throw it right at the top of your Q... If your P.C. in any way,shape, or form - skip it all together.
LINK: http://movies.netflix.com/Movie/Children-s-Hospital-Season-1-2/70144644
Monday, July 11, 2011
Easy A (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Average Netflix Rating: 3.9 Stars
Synopsis: High school is the setting for this freewheeling comedic twist on Nathaniel Hawthorne's 19th-century novel The Scarlet Letter. Ambitious student Olive (Emma Stone) decides to boost her popularity by pretending to be the school slut. As the school's swirling rumor mill increases both her notoriety and her finances, Olive enjoys her newfound status but eventually must decide which is more important: popularity or self-esteem.
You know you've got something special when a teen sex movie wins "Best Comedy" at the Critics Choice Awards... Easily my favorite movie of 2010. Everything about this movie is sheer perfection. The writing, the acting, the comedic timing. I have NOTHING bad to say about this film. It takes everything you love about the teen sex comedy and turns it around, taking every teen movie cliche and either acknowledging it's cliche-ness or taking that cliche and turning it into something that feels totally fresh. Who would have ever thought of taking The Scarlet Letter and turning it into a teen sex comedy??? Pure genius. The movie is 100% carried by Emma Stone, her delivery and understanding of comedy is what elevates this above the average comedy... I have a hard time with comedies, I just simply don't laugh (I still haven't seen THE HANGOVER" but I laughed non- stop from beginning till end... From smart innuendo jokes, to great one line zingers, to watching a family guess the word TWAT by spelling it out in peas , it's an absolute riot. You can feel how much the makers of this film cherished the seminal teen films of the 80s...
Where should you put this in your Q? Don't... Go out and buy it - actually go out a buy a blu-ray player so you can buy this on blu-ray and enjoy it in its best quality...
LINK: http://movies.netflix.com/Movie/Easy-A/70123920
Saturday, July 2, 2011
Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday The Thirteenth (2000)
Genre: Comedy (I guess)
Average Netflix Rating: 2.9 Stars
Synopsis: It's Friday the 13th in Bulemia Falls and -- due to the mayor's dyslexia -- it's Halloween night as well. To make matters worse, a masked slasher is stalking the teens of BF High. Because the murderer is wearing a costume stolen under his watch, mall cop Doughy (Tom Arnold) is determined to get to the bottom of the killings. With the help of a cable video jockey (Tiffani-Amber Thiessen), Doughy hunts the hunter in this goofy horror spoof.
By reviewing this movie, I'm admitting to choosing to watch this movie. But this is what I'm here for, to help you avoid my mistakes. I'll make this short and sweet - This movie is terrible. HORRIBLE! I'll admit there are some jokes that did make me laugh, but most of the others fail so miserably it's hard to believe anyone thought they were funny. Not even a hint of funny. There is even about 15 minutes of movie that is sooo unfunny that they added in "pop up video" facts to try to distract you from how bad what's actually happening is. STAY AWAY!
Where should you put it in your Q? Don't...
LINK:http://movies.netflix.com/Movie/Shriek-If-You-Know-What-I-Did-Last-Friday-the-13th/60020575
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