I thought the snowman sequence was brilliant. And the second time I went to see it in theaters there was a couple sitting behind me who were howling during the whole thing. The lady half of the couple lost it even harder at the asthma inhaler bit.
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I thought the snowman sequence was brilliant. And the second time I went to see it in theaters there was a couple sitting behind me who were howling during the whole thing. The lady half of the couple lost it even harder at the asthma inhaler bit.
The threesome part was good, but when it turned dark it was like WTF?
The problem I have with it is that there's absolutely no context for why it happens. It's just so random and feels out of place. It just reminded me of Jack Frost, a Micheal Keaton movie. In that movie, a kid's father dies and is reincarnated as a snowman the kid builds. So, if that's supposed to be a nod to that movie, that's a movie from 1998. But I doubt that's it, but it just made me go, "what??" It may just be a case that I don't get the reference.
I think it's a bit of a (perhaps relatively recent) trope that characters will have fantasy sequences that start out fairly dreamlike and then go off the rails at some point. It's almost certainly a reaction to the more tropey dream sequences in fiction in general. TVTropes probably even has a name for it.
Why was there an underwater saloon in Top Secret!? Why did the jet plane sound like a prop plane in Airplane? Because it's funny. I found the snowman funny, so it worked for me.
I must of missed something about the snowman scene. Was that supposed to be a fantasy? Maybe I looked down or away at that moment, but all of a sudden we had Killer snowmans and I was wondering what was happening.
I don't know, which is why it had me so confused.
Well, fair enough. I guess I found it more distracting than funny to the point that it kind of took me out of it. That was the only joke that did that though.
there's also a slasher movie of the same name where a serial killer posessesesesses a snowman
Yeah, I realize that when I went and did some searching, but I don't watch those types of movies, so again context tends to be lost. It then just comes across as very random.
The snowman bit felt the most like a Seth MacFarlane idea, as it did remind me of some of those Family Guy cutaway gags that went on for a bit.
I don't think I've ever heard randomness leveled as a criticism against a Naked Gun film before.
Got me there
All right, that was pretty good!
It doesn’t quite sustain the humor in the way the classic trilogy managed, but it had plenty of great laughs throughout. Very worth a blind buy.
Another boon is the nice and tight running time. Keeping this to 85 minutes made it run like a freight train, which is what a comedy like this should do.
It doesn’t quite sustain the humor in the way the classic trilogy managed, but it had plenty of great laughs throughout. Very worth a blind buy.
Another boon is the nice and tight running time. Keeping this to 85 minutes made it run like a freight train, which is what a comedy like this should do.
The director said on his podcast (The Lonely Island) that they were extremely conscious of that, even going back to check the running times of previous entries and other classic spoofs like Top Secret. Two hours worth of comedy in a sub-90 minute film.
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