Funny People has some very funny moments but don't expect a joke fest. Adam sandler is my favorite actor and his act is the best in this film. But don't expect a tight film either. At two and a half hours, it is not one but two films and at least one of them shouldn't have been made. It's interesting stuff, I feel myself wanting to like it more than I did. Judd Apatow has a lot to say, he just hasn't mastered the tools to say it well.
Synopsis: Over the past few years, writer/director Judd Apatow (The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up) has shown that nothing?not even losing your virginity or the miracle of childbirth?is sacred. About his. Adam Sandler, Eric Bana, Jason Schwartzman, RZA and newcomer Aubrey Plaza join a cast that reunites Judd Apatow with Seth Rogen, Leslie Mann and Jonah Hill in their third comedy together.
This sprawling and overlong buddy movie has a good heart but its head is probably suffering a hangover, judging by the rambling and swaying screenplay. A surfeit of the kind of crude, sexually graphic jokes that work in a darkly lit stand up comedy stores and Adam Sandler's unremittingly morose George drag the film down. (Is contempo American comedy solely reliant on penis jokes?) In the absence of wit we are given little of interest beyond the malaise of the central character: his terminal illness and the progress of his condition provides the plot engine, and is used to steer the action.
At 40, George is feeling his age in a comedic world dominated by younger folk; he's also miserably, lonesomely rich. When he sees Ira work one of the non-paying comedy gigs, he hires him to write some gags, but we can't see why. Ira is not that funny. OK, let's say comedy is a personal thing, and they start to bond in a stop-start sort of way. Nothing much happens besides some banter between them and between Ira and his struggling comic friend Leo (Jonah King) and the more successful Mark (Jason Schwartzman) who makes $25,000 a week in a sitcom.
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