Finally, a film that is not afraid of the nut-shot montage and the "Jesus is watching you masturbate" joke. The plot — guy's sperm go bad on him, so he goes on a quest to regain a healthy sample he once donated to a sperm bank — is a wall …
The ever-present Kevin Hart lends his crinkly voice to George, a feckless (and neckless) budding comic book artist who teams up with classmate Harold (Thomas Middleditch) to hypnotize their elementary school principal (Ed Helms) into thinking he’s an infantile superhero. In-joke asides to Jerome “Curly” Horowitz and German Industrialist/Nuremberg posterchild …
Like a Christopher Guest comedy less rigged for pat satire, Miguel Arteta’s film is about a naïve insurance salesman (Ed Helms) who goes to a convention in Iowa and learns from a sly roommate (Isiah Whitlock Jr.) and an amiable vulgarian (John C. Reilly) how to grow up in a …
Owen WIlson and Ed Helms star as a pair of fraternal twins in search of their birth father. Stepping behind the camera for the first time is cinematographer Lawrence Sher (The Dukes of Hazzard, The Hangover(s)).
Write hard, direct hard, act hard. Laugh light, if at all. Neal Brennan’s high-pressure capitalist satire, on a travelling team of mercenary car salesmen summoned to Temecula for a Fourth-of-July blowout, takes continual leave of sense and senses in pursuit of jokes. With Jeremy Piven, Ving Rhames, David Koechner, Kathryn …
Sledgehammer comedy about four buddies (Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis, Justin Bartha) who go to Vegas for a bachelor party and wake up the morning after with no memory of the night before, a tiger in the bathroom, a baby in the closet, and the mystery of a missing …
For those who exited The Hangover Part II feeling their time and money well spent, this is the hair of the dog that bit you. The rest of humanity might consider a rabies vaccination before entering. This time, franchise creator Todd Phillips does away with the customary Mike Tyson cameo, …
Writer-director-producer-star Lake Bell follows her brainy woman-in-a-man’s world workplace comedy In A World with something at once more radical and more reactionary: a spirited defense of marriage. Of course, you can’t go defending something so common and square without bringing in handjob parlors, hippie communes, and sex addicts for color …
Of Mice and Men for the mumblecore set. Were it not for happenstance and a zoom lens that appears slightly dislodged from its turret so as to artlessly dart at and away from its subjects, filmmakers Jay and Mark Duplass would have no idea how to tell a story. Unskilled …
No you won’t. From Jessie Nelson, the man who brought us Stepmom, I Am Sam, and Fred Claus...need I go on? Staler than year-old rum cake and louder than June Squbb’s holiday sweater, Hollywood yet again ushers in the Christmas season with a dysfunctional family racing to get it together …
Consider this the biggest ornithological misappropriation since Little Richard accused Walt Disney of using, “his Donald Duck singing my ‘Tutti Frutti’… yet I never received a quarter.” It’s March of the Penguins with Ed Helms’ anthropomorphic asides substituting for Morgan Freeman’s “voice of God” narration. I’m all for Disney trying …
Just awful story of arrested development mistaken for preserved youth. Clips of the real-life game of grownup tag between friends that served as inspiration here are shown at the end, and have the no-doubt unintended effect of revealing what is missing in director Jeff Tomsic’s take: joy, friendship, humanity, and …
Just awful story of arrested development mistaken for preserved youth. Clips of the real-life game of grownup tag between friends that served as inspiration here are shown at the end, and have the no-doubt unintended effect of revealing what is missing in director Jeff Tomsic’s take: joy, friendship, humanity, and …
It takes a bit for writer-director Nicole Beckwith to clue audiences in on the importance of the job interview that opens the picture. It’s also an audition of sorts, with Anna (Patti Harrison) trying out for the role of surrogate mother to successful app designer Matt’s (Ed Helms) single/surrogate dad …
A sense of wistful nostalgia generated by Lindsay Buckingham’s iconic title tune playing under a series of amusing vacation photos faded along with the opening credits. Two newbies, John Francis Daley and Jonathan M. Goldstein, take a vacation from filmmaking and drop a holiday load in this unwatchable remake of …