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JoaoBastos

Outtakes were way funnier than the whole film

4 years 7 months ago

palefire

Ironically, even though the movie was 80 minutes long, the celebrity interviews were truncated.

4 years 7 months ago

It’s ridiculous, as expected, but worth a watch if you love the interviews (and the bloopers at the end), which is all this movie is - an excuse to compile a bunch of “...Two Ferns” interviews into a movie. It starts as a mockumentary, but after the first scene it never sticks to that format, which is probably because it would have meant more clever writing, which this movie doesn’t have. It’s probably about 10 or 15 minutes too long, since the story is really unimportant (Zack makes a deal with Will Ferrell to do several shows/interviews in just 2 weeks so he can get his own late night talk show). So if time is of essence to you, just fast forward to the interviews and credits/bloopers at the end. One last critique: Will Ferrell a good actor when he wants to be. But too often he just goes for what HE thinks is funny and not what would be funny for the story. He’s just over the top Will Ferrell in this and not believable at all. Every other actor in the movie is taking their part seriously, so his performance is totally out of place. I look forward to the day when he actually takes a comedic role seriously again, like he did in Elf.

4 years 6 months ago

chunkylefunga

I guess I'll be the first check then.

I mean I didn't think this was going to work in movie form, and well it didn't.

The outtakes were the funniest part of the movie. Really shouldn't have been made.

4 years 7 months ago

MrDoog

The interviews and the outtakes are very funny.
The movie that's around them is fairly shite

4 years 5 months ago

Siskoid

I wasn't expecting much from Between Two Ferns: The Movie, so I can't exactly say I'm disappointed. Essentially a broad mockumentary about Zach Galifianakis' awkward YouTube interview show, taking us behind the scenes to create a cast of characters around him, before pulling a stupid sitcom plot like having to tape 10 videos in two weeks or else X doesn't happen. The main problem is that Zach is a caricature of a jerk and a moron (all characters are in fact morons, some of them are also jerks), and necessary attempts at heart don't really work when you're pushing that brand of comedy. In fact, Ferns realizes the normal heart-related clichés are trite and plays them as parody, which does the film no favors. Truth be told, this is very rarely funny, and then only really in the Between Two Ferns segments, and even those tend towards the "celebrity sits there unresponsive" mold. There are better ones towards the end, but even so, you get more bang for your time by watching the actual show on YouTube. I guess this will remain on lists of films to marathon for fans of the various actors put through the wringer, including Keanu Reeves, a lot of MCU stars, John Cho, Peter Dinklage, Tiffany Haddish, Bruce Willis and others. (One big misstep is having a couple of Parks & Recs stars on, which puts the mockumentary humor of the movie to shame.)

4 years 7 months ago

DaniloFreiles

Perfino il fulmine rappresentato nel film faceva pena.

4 years 7 months ago

dvdgrdnr

Big fan of the show. Was sceptical about how it might translate to a movie.
It is consciously cliched. At times meta about it. But it was done in such an artless manner. Constantly broke the cardinal rule.of cinema of telling, rather than showing us. I'm not expecting citizen kane, but c'mon! Cinema is a visual medium and if characters are explaining plot/ their motivations all the time then that's just lazy writing and directing.
Crucially it wasnt funny. Except for the interviews. But we didn't need a film for those. Just a bunch of new episodes would have been fine
Oh well. I've probably spent longer writing this comment than they did writing the movie.

4 years 7 months ago