Yes, everyone's right: pretty damned funny, and the chemistry between
Will Ferrell and
Mark Wahlberg fairly screams sequel. Sadly, the payoff for the running joke about Wahlberg's Detective Hoitz having accidentally shot Derek Jeter that I read about last weekend in the
Times will appear only in the DVD version. If you're as old as I am and paying attention (and later you don't even have to be paying close attention), there's another good baseball joke in the film, involving the isn't-that-rare-glimpse-of-him-always-welcome
Michael Keaton.
Crit
Documentary stripped down to bare bones, like the military life it portrays: there's no room for politics, there's room only for as direct a movement as possible from point A to point B, from beginning to end--of the film, or of the stay in the hell that is the Korangal Valley of Afghanistan. Yeah, I know "objectivity" is never really possible when someone's pointing a camera, but you settle for the illusion of it as an accurate portrayal of what we ask our young men and women (though all men here) to do for whatever we're getting out of it
.
Trailers
- The Green Hornet--Oh, ho! I was lukewarm on this action-hero update starring Seth Rogen until just now, when I noticed that it's directed by . . . Michel Gondry??!? Well, that changes everything.
- The Expendables--Stallone directs Schwarzenegger (briefly, one guesses), Willis, and (duh) Stallone in what seems to be as aptly titled a film as will be released this year.
- Red--Willis here, too, but the cast also includes, as kick-ass over-the-hill comic-book heroes, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich, and, oh, yes, Helen Mirren, whom we've been waiting to see in an action film. Promising.
- The Social Network--Jesse Eisenberg in the genesis story of Facebook; promising.
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