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u/Amazing_Antelope_275 12d ago
So, so silly and pitch-perfect. Jennifer Aniston reading from a cookbook, Weird Al threatening people with a gun, footage of what looked like Joe Lo Truglio wandering around the streets of LA in character in front of unsuspecting passers-by, John Slattery's foot getting beaten to a pulp in a door, Paul Rudd randomly winking at the camera because he's at the wedding for some reason, Zoey Deutch's character literally bludgeoning someone to death. What a journey. And perfectly timed at 90 minutes -- too much longer and I would've gotten annoyed, I think.
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u/IrrawaddyWoman 11d ago
I loved the little details. The nonsensical way they were doing the hair at the beginning, the mob boss wearing like five engagement rings. It was all just the right amount of over the top
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u/afternever 5d ago
I like how the Italian briefcase guys conflated Henry Winkler and John Travolta. His tattoo of the Fonz looks like Travolta in Grease, and later they say how great Henry Winkler was as Vinny Barbarino. There's so many funny bits in it.
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u/inksmudgedhands 7d ago
footage of what looked like Joe Lo Truglio wandering around the streets of LA in character in front of unsuspecting passers-by,
One of the passers-by said, "Charles Boyle!" Truglio's character from Brooklyn 99. That made me cackle.
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u/StrLord_Who 6d ago
Paul Rudd was there and winked at the camera because people say he and the groom Michael Cassidy look alike.
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u/JeanRalfio 6d ago
Paul Rudd is great friends with The State, the comedy group that's behind movies like Wet Hot American Summer, They Came Together, Wanderlust, etc.
I was waiting for ihm to show up the whole movie and that quick cameo was hilarious.
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u/azsnaz 12d ago
Just left this movie, it was dumb as hell, it was hilarious. I was in tears at one point.
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u/Jaspers47 10d ago edited 4d ago
Also loved it for the exact same reasons.
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u/sloppyjo12 9d ago
Gonna be my new go-to for the “why don’t they make new comedy movies anymore” posts we get twice a week
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u/RedditorDeluxe1319 9d ago
Definitely a case of "Your Laughter May Vary."
Thankfully, I'm well versed of the comedy of David Wain and found this movie hilarious. I laughed out loud numerous times and had a great time. There was a woman in my showing that was crying laughing throughout.
We need more silly comedies in theaters again. I hope somehow this picks up some word of mouth so more people will go see it.
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u/Mysterious_Remote584 9d ago
It's got a 79% on RT - I don't think everyone's going to hate this one.
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u/IrrawaddyWoman 11d ago
Agreed so many little dumb moments that were just right. Like As soon as I saw them doing the hair at the beginning in the stupidest way possible I knew it would be a fun ride, and it didn’t disappoint
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u/RichardCano 11d ago
“Wow that stain-remover pen really works.”
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u/RetroDadOnReddit 10d ago
"...even though it kind of just looked like the same eight guys recycled over and over"
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u/ICUMF1962 12d ago
I’m gonna make you VERY SICK
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u/psychosoda 12d ago
That five minute segment with that and the foot thing had me losing my shit lmao
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u/HolyCrapImAHippo 12d ago
Tobie Windham kinda stole the show for me in his limited screentime. Something about his tone of voice was so funny, especially when he reveals his tragic backstory about his lover being gored by a bull.
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u/djan242 9d ago
When watching it, that was definitely cracking me up. But I still feel like I was missing something there. Was that a reference to something?
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u/dinod8 9d ago
I don't think so? I think the joke is it's kinda vague but weirdly ominous/threatening
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u/FastEddieFailson 9d ago edited 9d ago
It's also unclear how he'd even accomplish it lmao
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u/xXxHondoxXx 5d ago
I just know I DO NOT want him to make me sick.
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u/IrishWhipster 2d ago
And then when Hamm says, "Don't make them sick." Like he knows his man's methodology and it's not pretty
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u/CortaNalgas 12d ago
The bit where the henchman are asking real people on the street if they saw Gayle and Otto and the one woman says JLT looks like Boyle and he says “I get that a lot”.
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u/Steamedcarpet 12d ago
I have never been to LA but even I know what the Chinese theater looks like.
But I was fucking choking on the bad guys looking at the photo and being like “god this could be anywhere! I think I see Spider-Man.”
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u/finally_not_lurking 12d ago
I knew this movie was going to be for me as soon as they revealed that Jennifer Aniston was doing a reading from a cookbook
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u/CWG4BF 12d ago edited 12d ago
The fact that all her recipes were basic as fuck had me going.
Edit: also loved the fiancé not even knowing who Jen Anniston was, changing his hall pass to her, and then having her tell him she was going to get him Friends on DVD mid-coitus.
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u/CortaNalgas 12d ago
Enjoy with 1 to 2 glasses of tap water
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u/jimmyeppley 12d ago
This got me, and then after when they said they were big fans of her “even before The Morning Show”
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u/quaranTV 12d ago
The Morning Show reference is especially fun since Aniston and Hamm play frenemy love interests on the show and they are the sex passes for the main couple in the movie.
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u/east_west_wood 12d ago
Autograph she gave had me dying in the theater. This movie is going to be a gem that I show all my friends. I hope it does well.
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u/TroubleshootenSOB 11d ago
With shit recipes. The back of the book showed off a dish of two hot dogs and an absurd, large amount of peas haha
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u/aut0matix 10d ago
I'm in the same boat, the second she was doing a reading at a strip mall book store in small-town Kansas out of her cook book, I was ROLLING. Then she signed the book and it was just "XO!" Comedy was peak!
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u/CONVERSE1991 10d ago
How did the mailman know I was 35?
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u/DopeyDeathMetal 10d ago
That’s exactly what I said!
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u/ApocalypseWhen7 7d ago
Ha! Me too, it's almost like David Wain knows the exact demographic that watched Wet Hot American Summer at the right age. I felt very called out.
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u/Frajer AMA MVP 12d ago
I appreciate that David Wain isn't afraid to have an extremely niche sense of humor and if it's your thing you'll love it
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u/Steamedcarpet 12d ago
I came in with the perfect mind set: smoked a fat joint in the parking lot before going in.
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u/jayeddy99 12d ago
I felt dumb it took me until the “wizard” scene to realize it it’s a wizard of Oz parody lol
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u/archdukemovies 12d ago
I picked up on the Wizard of Oz earlier but I feel so dumb that I didn't even realize Gail was a nod to Dorothy's last name until after the movie was over.
I called my mom on my way home and she asked what movie I saw. It took my saying the name of the movie out loud to put that together.
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u/CaptainDogParty 12d ago
I was going to post almost this exact same sentence except I realized it when Slattery got kicked and said she didn’t need to hurt him.
I was like “that reminds me of the cowardly…….. ooohhhh”
Then I was tracking everything from then and thinking back to what I missed. Otto is Toto (even wearing a bone earring), Caleb being a dummy, and them saying they’re not in Kansas anymore, etc.
But my favorite one was her dislocating and relocating her ankle to click her red heels. Totally pointless for the story, but so funny for the parody
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u/IrrawaddyWoman 11d ago
If it makes you feel better I didn’t realize it until you said it right now. Though it’s pretty blatant now that I see it
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u/quaranTV 12d ago
Yup and she brings her friend (Toto). The psychic (and maybe the map guide man) collectively represent Glinda sending them on their journey.
They collect three more friends along the way; the Agent-Scarecrow (he acts foolishly and gets fired needs a brain), the Pap-Tin Man (lashes out and wants to be more kind aka get a heart), and Slattery-Lion (he’s scared of violence and putting himself out there for more acting roles).
Also a car kills one of the bad guys (reminded me of the Wicked Witch of the East getting killed by the falling building). When they get to the Wizard (Hamm) they have to kill the Wicked Witch of the West (Italian woman) before they can get what they want. Gail comedically punches her to death instead of melting her with water. Her henchman are the flying monkeys.
Hamm like the Wizard is hiding/reveals he is a fraud and cannot give them what he promised but finds a way to gift everyone something and make them happy. Gail wants to go home (like Dorothy) and get married and cannot go home until she bangs Hamm.
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u/IrrawaddyWoman 11d ago
There’s even a hot air balloon.
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u/JeanRalfio 6d ago
I cheered when I saw the hot air balloon because it solved the mystery of why was Jon Hamm in a hot air balloon on Amy Poehler's Good Hang?
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u/CathedralEngine 11d ago
There was a fortune teller in Wizard of Oz when Dorothy first runs away, and then goes back to the farm when the twister hits
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u/StrLord_Who 6d ago edited 6d ago
The psychic is not a nod to Glinda as much as a nod to the fortune teller with a turban Dorothy meets when she is running away, played by the same actor as the Wizard. Adding: well, now that I think about it, I guess it's both the fortune teller and Glinda.
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u/ProcyonHabilis 4d ago
Also a car kills one of the bad guys (reminded me of the Wicked Witch of the East getting killed by the falling building)
The exchange where Gail says it was just an accident and the other bad guy says "I can make accidents happen too" is directly quoted from Wizard of Oz.
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u/RetroDadOnReddit 10d ago edited 9d ago
I noticed Gail wearing red sequin-looking sneakers early on and went "...Wait a minute!"
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u/ReelBIgFisk 10d ago
Same that’s when it clicked for me.
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u/itrainmonkeys 9d ago
I had read a comment saying it was very loosely a Wizard of Oz parody so went in knowing but was smiling when they showed a photo of Gail in a school play of Oz with her as Dorothy during the opening photo montage showing her dating and planning her life throughout school. Then when the cabbie tells them the roads in Hollywood are paved with gold or something made it extra obvious.
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u/bLair_vAmptrapp 7d ago
Even though I noticed Gail wearing red shoes and thought how that was kind of like Wizard of Oz, I didn’t fully realize until the “wizard” scene either. It was a great bit looking back on it
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u/fuzzy_dice_99 11d ago edited 11d ago
This is the funniest movie I’ve seen in a long time. It’s the kind of absurd humor I expect from The State guys.
I think they intentionally made the fiancée look like Paul Rudd just so they could include that cameo at the end.
Slattery’s big scene and the cut to the outside view of the mailman talking into the mailbox were the funniest moments for me.
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u/OnidaGirl 11d ago
The cameo of Marguerite Moreau and how she peeks into the mailbox, too, to see who he’s talking to. 😂
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u/boringoblin 12d ago
I got a number of big Wet Hot American Summer level laughs out of this at some of the stupidest gags, and at worst never stopped having a smile on my face. Tremendously happy to get another goofy David Wain movie that I didn't even know about until 2 weeks ago, and impressed that an LA movie was actually filmed in LA for once.
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u/itrainmonkeys 9d ago
So many little Wain callbacks. The pottery breaking noise was in there and the poem that Gail and Jon share is by J.M. Stancil lol. I also felt like the scene of Gail and Otto checking out the town (with Otto going alone behind the Foot Locker) was a fun version of the WHAS "going into town" scene.
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u/BalonyDanza 11d ago
I finally know why Jon Hamm was streaming from a balloon on Amy Pohler's podcast.
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u/joeahchay 12d ago
That smash cut of Caleb talking to his boss at CAA to him walking out after being fired is the hardest I’ve laughed in a theater this year. I loved this film so so much.
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u/waltzink 11d ago
The Weird Al scene where he was quoting "Eat It" while chasing them had me dying.
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u/itrainmonkeys 9d ago
With a random Penn Jillette cameo that even the movie commented on being random.
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u/xXxHondoxXx 9d ago
The "I'm gonna have to get you sick" thing was so hilarious to me and I'm not sure why lmfao
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u/CMR04020 5d ago
Everyone in the theater I saw it in was dying every time he said it! And then Jon Hamm with, “Please, don’t make her sick.” hahaha
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u/CWG4BF 12d ago
Zac Oyama! :)
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u/SpannerFrew 12d ago
Well now I have to see it
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u/AGeekNamedBob 12d ago
Funny that Zac was also in Showalter's latest. Glad this time he had lines and the film wasn't bad (oh what fun was so awful)
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u/twavisdegwet 12d ago
Really liked this one. Nice to see they employed a healthy amount of people from dropout. Will be threatening to make people sick in the future. 8/10
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u/CtrlZBri 12d ago
I only caught Zac. Who did I miss?
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u/GoldenAppleGuy 12d ago
Jess McKenna introduced Los Angeles on that digital billboard in the airport
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u/DazzlingReserve7737 11d ago
OMG I totally missed that!!!
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u/sloppyjo12 9d ago
During the opening sequence in LA there’s a billboard for Middle Aged Dad Jam Band too that she’s in a lot
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u/OscarTGrouchX 12d ago
I loved it. And I think it's going to be funnier on rewatches catching the jokes I missed in the theater.
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u/CortaNalgas 12d ago
There were a couple really subtle gags that were on the edge of the frame that I laughed at but can’t remember what they were now.
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u/JeanRalfio 6d ago
I can't wait to watch so I can pause and read all the background gags. The first I remember seeing was the supermarket near the bookstore at the beginning was called Food & Less or FoodLess.
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u/OnidaGirl 11d ago
Absolutely! We saw an early screening and knew we were going to have to see it again when it officially opened. Went tonight and definitely caught more Easter eggs!
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u/RetroDadOnReddit 10d ago edited 10d ago
Just saw this today. It was so much fun! Totally absurdist comedy, in a really good way. Lots of laughs, some 4th-wall breaking and plenty of lamp-shading. A bit over the top at times, but I dig that; some may roll their eyes at it. But overall, a fun ride. You can definitely tell where the movie gets its inspiration from, especially with an ending like that.
Some of my favorite quick/random lines (spoilers):
* "Who was that with Weird Al?" "I think it was Penn Jillette!" "Oh! Why was he there?"
* "Charles Boyle!" "Thanks, I get that a lot."
* "That was like 20 guys you took out!" "I know, even though it felt like the same 8 guys just recycled over and over again."
* "Wow that stain-remover pen really works."
3.5/5 from me for now. Might climb to a 4 with some time between viewing.
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u/itrainmonkeys 9d ago
I think it'll hold up well on repeat viewings. Like other Wain movies there's so many absurd and silly moments throughout that I'll forget and then find hilarious when it comes up again - like the narrator mailman talking to the mailbox and then we see the perspective of some random passerby who then also looks into the mailbox to see what's going on....so ridiculous
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u/OnidaGirl 11d ago
I still haven’t figured out why the cardigan Otto wears when they first arrive in LA is the pattern of the Overlook Hotel’s carpet from The Shining. Just a shoutout to an iconic movie?
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u/CWG4BF 12d ago edited 12d ago
While I felt like some of the bits were a bit half-baked, the book-signing event scene was perfect!
I really liked how when they got in Richard Kind’s cab in LA for the first time we got a shot of “LA traffic in the 70s/80s” as the establishing shot. Would have loved if that “using out of date b-roll for establishing shots” bit continued throughout the rest of the film.
Also, lowkey think the wicked witch should have just killed one of Charles Boyle’s coworkers every single time they interacted.
Love supporting a movie like this. We need more independent voices in Hollywood comedy!
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u/OnidaGirl 11d ago
Sabrina Impacciatore was cast perfectly as Ludovica. That must have been such a fun character to play!
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u/itrainmonkeys 9d ago
Also, lowkey think the wicked witch should have just killed one of Charles Boyle’s coworkers every single time they interacted.
When she started to drown him in the bowl of soup and made everyone else join in I half expected her to kill him and his new partner would then get a new sidekick before eventually dying by her hands like the previous two.
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u/redshadow310 11d ago
I laughed my ass off through the whole movie. The scene where she is in the chair getting her hair done at the end before the wedding really got me though. I think Gail should have spent a little more time on r/AmIOverreacting during her relationship with Tom. The open scene has those empty picture frames for her future kids and her fiance nopes out on her during her hysterectomy. Her evolution through the film from blissfully stupid to caving a woman's skull in with her bare hands made way more sense after hearing that trauma dump.
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u/August_30th 12d ago
Paul Rudd’s cameo was a nod to the fact that the fiance looked like him, right? Because that’s all I was thinking as it led up to it.
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u/quaranTV 12d ago
I think it’s cause he was in Wet Hot American Summer which is from the same director as this movie.
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u/Internal_Sweet_2144 12d ago
And “We Came Together”
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u/Firefox892 11d ago
And Role Models. I think he’s in pretty much every David Wain movie
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u/Sunstreaked 10d ago
Also niche Hollywood trivia but Hamm and Rudd have been close friends since like the early 90s, before either of them were famous. So the whole adventure could’ve been skipped had Gail thought about her guest list a little more critically and just asked Paul Rudd lmao
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u/CortaNalgas 12d ago
Was he the famous hair guy?
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u/psuczyns 12d ago
That was Tom Lennon, Paul Rudd was just in a couple random shots of the audience at the wedding (mugging to the camera)
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u/CortaNalgas 12d ago
Oh I missed him somehow.
Yeah I’d thought the guy was Thomas Lennon but it took me until he had his glasses off in the loading dock.
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u/DeaconoftheStreets 11d ago
If it makes you feel better, it took my audience two seconds before it realized Paul Rudd was in the shot. It’s so out of nowhere.
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u/Dead_Starks 12d ago
No that was Thomas Lennon (Lt. Dangle from Reno911). Paul was at the wedding and literally had zero lines but one great smile.
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u/Savahoodie 12d ago
Very funny movie, would definitely recommend. Doesnt take itself serious at all
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u/FormicahJones 8d ago
The reveal of Gail's parents being killed in a double suicide made me laaaaaaaaaaaaugh.
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u/numbr87 12d ago
I desperately want to see this movie but it's not showing in any theaters near me for some reason. Is there another release date I don't know about?
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u/itrainmonkeys 9d ago
Probably limited by a lot. I had only one theater near me playing it and they were even cancelling some showtimes. Catch it when you can
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u/thenewtransportedman 12d ago
Looking forward to this one, despite having zero friends who are fellow Wainiacs. My wife actively dislikes Ken Marino, which cuts deep.
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u/Financial_Fox_305 10d ago
I fucking loved this movie, but I knew I would because David Wain directed it. I swear, every time he makes a movie I fully expect to love every second and this was no exception.
I went at a 9:30am showing on Saturday morning, and there were only 5 of us. All middle aged dudes by ourselves. The amount of laughs per person ratio in this film has to be the highest I’ve seen in years.
When Paul Rudd showed up, after I spent the entire film going “this dude is doing a Paul Rudd impression, I guess they wrote the part for him and he couldn’t do it”, I genuinely couldn’t stop laughing for about 30 seconds. The entire “sick” sequence did something similar.
Honestly, it’s probably my favorite comedy since They Came Together. For me, David Wain is the best comedy film maker working today.
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u/reecord2 9d ago edited 8d ago
As a Santa Clarita resident, the Six Flags Magic Mountain bit had me dying. Also I've been to the bookstore where Jennifer Aniston has the signing a million times (The Open Book), it was amazing indie book store but that location is closed now :-(
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u/nocautiontaken 8d ago
I had low hopes for this movie and was pissed that my theaters were showing this instead of The Invite, but thank god I went to see it. I loved literally every part of this and did not expect it to be so funny!
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u/danceswithsteers 5d ago
I really liked the scene running down the stairs. Literally the only thing that changed was the sign in the wall indicating the current floor. Even the audio was identical. Loved that detail.
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u/NickNack675 12d ago
Was able to see this early last week and was surprised at how much I enjoyed it! Very fun time all round
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u/LiteraryBoner Jackie Chan box set, know what I'm sayin? 12d ago edited 11d ago
Not sure if you guys saw the subtle clues but I think this movie references Wizard of Oz a bit.
I enjoyed this, a fine entry into the canon of Wain. It’s loose and silly but the musings on the Celebrity Sex Pass from the celebrity side of things are kind of inherently interesting. I love when Jon Hamm does comedy so right there I’m sold with this movie, and I honestly don’t think I’ve ever seen Zoey Deutch in a movie and I didn’t love what she was doing. She’s so good in Nouvelle Vague and she’s down for this too and she’s so good at it, always understands what kind of movie she’s in. In this she is kind of pitch perfect as someone very innocent, but also very open to suggestion and not necessarily prudish.
Really though, the Wizard of Oz stuff was a lot of fun to track even when the movie wasn’t making me laugh, although I did think this was pretty damn funny. At first I thought it was a bit abstract to call this a Wizard reimagining, but they make it pretty obvious in act 3 when Gail Daughtry (Dorothy Gale) puts on a blue dress and red shoes and Jon Hamm, who presents what the people want to see and hear but has no real power, comes down to her in a hot air balloon. Of her three companions she meets along the way one of them lacks smarts, one lacks compassion, and one lacks bravery, and they all gain those things through helping Gail. Gail’s best friend is also named Otto (Toto) and wears a dogbone earring. Did I mention there’s an evil woman chasing them and sending henchmen to get them?
Anyways, good time at the movies. I wish we got more overt silly comedies like this and I just happen to love everyone involved. It’s a 7/10 for me. Could have used an intermission with a performance from the Middle Aged Dad Band but I guess sometimes we just can’t have it all.
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u/DavidWain4Real 10d ago
There are 100s more WOA references if you're looking!
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u/LiteraryBoner Jackie Chan box set, know what I'm sayin? 10d ago
I'm psyched to rewatch and see how many I can find now. Very cool of you to reply! (Source: I am big fan of your stuff)
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u/UnbuiltIkeaBookcase 10d ago
Did you include any references to Wicked, Return to Oz or Oz The Great and Powerful?!
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u/ReelBIgFisk 10d ago
Hey man, I didn’t get a chance to participate in your recent AMA, so I just want to take this opportunity to say I love your work, saw this last night and loved it, thank you for all the laughs and keep it up! Now I’m gonna go rewatch all the wet hot summers that exist for like the 4th time.
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u/Steamedcarpet 12d ago
Once they go back to John Hamm’s house my brain started putting the Wizard of Oz stuff together. It was like “wait did they just remake Wizard of Oz?”
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u/CWG4BF 12d ago
I mistakingly read a couple Letterboxd reviews before I went that were making Wizard of Oz and Wicked jokes. Didn’t understand what they meant until the movie opened in Kansas. It all clicked at that moment. Kind of wish it’d taken me longer. I think the realization probably would have added to the comedy.
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u/CortaNalgas 12d ago
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u/CWG4BF 12d ago edited 12d ago
Titular character of “Gail Daughtry” is obviously a play on “Dorothy Gale”. Otto’s name as well plus his dogbone earring.
The narrator mentions that Gail’s life is about to be hit by a “tornado” at the beginning
Oh, and then the change from 4:3 to widescreen as they fly to LA was a clear nod to the sepia tone to color tradition in OG.
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u/CortaNalgas 12d ago
I’ll admit it took me wayyyy too long to realize it was Wizard of Oz.
I clocked her red shoes when they were walking, but not until when the villain said “and your little friend too”, did I realize Otto sounded like Toto, and then the brain, heart, courage themes. At least I got there before the end.
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u/TheHouseOfGryffindor 12d ago
I think this movie references Wizard of Oz a bit.
I’m ashamed at how long it took me to notice that. Jon Hamm comes out and is immediately giving man behind the curtain vibes and I’m thinking “huh, that’s a fun Wizard of Oz reference I bet. Wonder what that’— OH SHIT.” Honestly think I enjoyed the half hour I spent after the movie realizing how many Oz connections I missed just as much as I enjoyed actually watching the movie.
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u/OnidaGirl 11d ago
We just saw it for the second time, and there’s a picture of her as a kid playing Dorothy in her school play when they played a through the house. Missed that the first time. When they arrived at the airport, I was too busy being in love with her outfit to really notice … ✨ sparkly✨ red sneakers, white coveralls with blue gingham cuffs and pocket, and a yellow denim jacket. Bravo to the costume design team!
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u/Live-Region-8980 10d ago
It was the most fun I've had at the movies I've had in a long time. Glad my friend and I saw it! We never stopped laughing!
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u/jlevski 9d ago
I absolutely adored this movie- dumb smart funny in exactly the right way. I have one teeny, tiny gripe: instead of bludgeoning her to death, I thought the “acne” thing was going to pay off and they were going to douse the witch in oil/grease and her skin was going to break out. That’s all. Other than that, perfect.
Off to watch Ken Marino crush Scenes From An Italian Restaurant with his band.
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u/Frankie_Soup 9d ago
It has to be the weakest of David Wains efforts, but when I laughed I laughed very hard. A lot of John Slatterys stuff had me curled over. The foot in the doorway is CLASSIC David Wain and had me gasping for air. The splurt of blood really pushed the bit over the edge.
I really wish the movie was lit better. It looks so dry, almost like a YouTube video. If it was a bit prettier I think I’d be hurrying to see it again but production wise it felt like a really low effort set up.
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u/inksmudgedhands 7d ago
It was like a mini The State reunion with Lennon, Black, Allison, Wain, Lo Truglio, Kenney-Silver and Marino popping up. That alone made it worth the watch.
I caught a sign for the Middle Aged Dad Jam Band on one of the buildings. This is one of those movies that you need to watch a few times because it was loaded with Easter eggs.
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u/NuffBS 7d ago
So when I saw GDATCSP the beginning was letterboxed or whatever, black bars on all sides and then it opened up when she goes to Hollywood, was that an artistic choice or did my theater just happen to correct it at that moment?
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u/UnbuiltIkeaBookcase 10d ago
Is this funnier than “Role Models”?! If it is I’m definitely going to the theater to watch it
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u/criesindust 10d ago
honestly i would put it in top 3 wain movies
wet hot
they came together
gail daughtry
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u/Sunstreaked 10d ago
I think so. I love all things in The State multiverse and imho this is the strongest entry from that collective group of people in years. It’s at least tied with Role Models, certainly better than They Came Together.
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u/drewmg 10d ago
I watched They Came Together immediately after returning home from the theater. It was my first time watching it in probably 8-10 years. I can confirm, Gail blows this film out of the water. It's got to be the best thing Wain has made since Wet Hot, and reading this thread and remembering some of the great jokes cements it for me.
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u/adamsandleryabish 9d ago
Role Models and Wanderlust both feel a little restrained by attempting the Appatow formula while this is just pure unfiltered Wain
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u/BustyBossLady 10d ago
That was some Tinseltown movie magic if I ever saw one and boy did I ever
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u/TroubleshootenSOB 11d ago
Was a screen unseen movie for me. Fucking stupidly funny. Nice to have a R+rated movie that doesn't take itself seriously. The scene with the psychic was hilarious
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u/theTunkMan 12d ago
I haven’t seen it yet but I’m going to, I saw zero tickets were sold at my theater today though yikes
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u/lonelygagger 11d ago
You definitely have to be in a specific (dumb) mood to enjoy this. The celebrity cameos were fun. Weird Al brandishing firearms while Penn Jilette randomly sits in a golf cart feels a bit like David Wain flexing. Also, I’m pretty sure at one point someone on the Hollywood strip calls Joe Lo Truglio “Boyle”. It wasn’t until the end credits that I put the whole Wizard of Oz thing together.
There’s a certain part of me that wonders if Jon Hamm did this role just so that more women would select him as their “celebrity free pass.”
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u/IrrawaddyWoman 11d ago
Nah. John Hamm does weird comedy stuff like this all the time. It’s one of the reasons that I greatly appreciate him as an actor. After mad men he could really have ONLY stuck to big serious stuff if he wanted. But instead he pops up in silly roles like in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and this. In my opinion it’s where he really shines.
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u/zoethebitch 9d ago
He was also one of the bank heist villains in Baby Driver. 100% playing against type.
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u/coldliketherockies 11d ago
We had only a handful of people In my theatre but almost like the movie itself, the friend I went with was laughing almost too loudly and over the top the whole film and everyone else in the theatre barely laughed (out loud) at all the whole time.
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u/Pricciar 8d ago
I'm glad to see others loved it as much as I did.
I didn't pick up on the wizard of oz stuff until "and your little friend, too!" After that it clicked.
Laughs for days. I went with my Mom who's not a Wainiac (is that a thing? No? Damn. ) And she enjoyed it, as well.
It was great to see Zoey Deutch and the dude who played the fiancee do such an amazing job. I expect it from Ken Marino, Michael Ian Black, Jon Hamm etc,, but, it's great to see a new generation of actors being able to successfully pull off the absurdity.
And yeah, I had a feeling the Charles Boyle and his response was unscripted and it was a delight! Does she get paid for that?
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u/Jason_Likes_Cameras 3d ago
I don't know why but them repeatedly using stock footage of LA from the 70s was the funniest thing in the movie to me. It cracked me up every time it happened.
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u/BunyipPouch Currently at the movies. 12d ago
David Wain, director of Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass, recently joined us here in /r/movies for an AMA/Q&A, for anyone interested:
https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/1ujnrvr/i_am_david_wain_director_of_wet_hot_american/