1) In order to boost sales, a young author and some friends visit a bookstore and loudly attempt to give her tome better shelf placement. 2) Two strangers exchange funny jabs after one attempts to cut in line at a Starbucks. 3) A date with a Gap model ends in …
Fans of Adam Sandler will want to have a neighbor read them the following: the latest from Sony Pictures Animation has all the stylistic innovation and visual niceties of a Count Chocula commercial. An unduly protective vampire daddy (Sandler) who runs a restricted resort — the clientele is limited to …
The lively undead. Yes, that's the legendary Mel Brooks you hear lending his voice to Great-Grandpa Vlad in director Genndy Tartakovsky's sequel to his human boy-meets-monster girl romantic comedy for kids, Hotel Transylvania. Maybe that explains the relentless, unending, benumbing avalanche of gags (visual and otherwise), puns, and one-liners — …
The genius of replacing the Columbia Pictures torch lady with an antifreeze Jell-O mold lasted long enough for incest to set in. With daughter Mavis (Selena Gomez) of marrying age, her relationship with daddy Dracula (Adam Sandler’s out, Brian Hull’s in) has matured from electral love to borderline inbreeding. (Drac …
Behind-the-scenes glimpse at Lorne Michaels, the man who built the inimitable empire of comedy Saturday Night Live, shaping television and culture for generations. The documentary features exclusive footage, archival treasures, and candid interviews with the show’s most iconic cast members and writers including Tina Fey, Maya Rudolph, John Mulaney, Andy …
Aims to do for the Timberlake-Bieber popstar crowd what the mockumentary-rockumentary This is Spinal Tap did for heavy metal rockers. Like Spinal Tap, the humor is front-loaded: star Andy Samberg & Co. are at their best when they’re deadpanning as addlepated celebrity man-children whose vision of the good life involves …
For years Adam Sandler has been threatening to remake several Jerry Lewis pictures. The closest he's come is borrowing the title of a 1951 Martin & Lewis picture for this insipid, deeply misogynistic excuse for a comedy. Doing a gravelly-voiced, baby-talking variation on Al Pacino (complete with fright wig), Sandler …