Sat, Feb 12, 2000

: Mystery Men

Author: Bob Burden (comic book series by Dark Horse) and Neil Cuthbert (screenplay)

Director: Kinka Usher

I realized something while watching this: a humorous premise does not make a humorous movie. Too many gimmick films rely on their wacky premise to get laughs and don’t put in enough humor in script to make it funny. This thing sounded great but falls flat: there’s nothing funny beyond the initial concept of a some inept wannabe superheroes.

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: Very Bad Things

Author: Peter Berg

Director: Peter Berg

I love black comedies, but this one’s a little too raw (i.e. several characters are plainly evil) to completely work. I loved the poetic justice ending, however. The story’s somewhat predictable as one by one a group of five friends kill each other off, but the actual methods of everyone dying are well done. Semi-accidental deaths are difficult to pull off believably, but these worked.

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