Tim Robinson, the actor Cult Sketch who makes his debut as a leading man in the new comedy of Buddy FriendshipTo a comic book personality different from that of any other funny guy who is currently working. As Attach your enthusiasmIt is Larry David, Robinson Traffics in a version of the creaky comedy, but this long-established sub-genre is now spacious enough to include more than one type of social inappropriate social. Unlike David’s aggressive crank, the typical character of Tim Robinson wishes To integrate – the fact so badly that it judges any interpersonal signals in sight badly, launching in abjective offers unsuccessful for attention, approval and love. Robinson’s tall and tamed body first appears stiff and bombed, but given the opportunity – and I think you should leaveThe sketch show in which he plays and co -created for Netflix, gives him many opportunities – he can twist in all kinds of strange shapes and take impressive slapstick falls.
Friendship is also the beginning of the film features of the writer-director Andrew Deyoung, who has already worked on television (Pen15,, Acute,, Our flag means death). Robinson plays Craig Waterman, a desperately silly suburban father with a sweet teenager (Jack Dylan Grazer) and a dull office work that involves finding ways to make applications more addictive. His wife (Kate Mara), a florist who is currently in remission after treatment against cancer, encourages Craig to sofa to go out and have more friends. Thus, when a package intended for his new neighbor arrives at his address, Craig gives it by hand at the neighbor’s. The man who responds to the door, Austin Carmichael (Paul Rudd), turns out to be a minor local celebrity: he is the meteorologist of the evening news, and also plays the guitar and sings in a sweet punk group. After Craig gave Austin generic advice “believe in yourself”, the evening meteorologist is promoted to the coveted morning slit, and the two men are starting to spend time together, drinking beers, looking for wild mushrooms and even making a badly informed rarad through the city’s underground ewer waves. But when Austin invites his new boyfriend to be part of the regular night of his boys, the Anxious Craig to complain about the rails in a way that will not describe – partly not to spoil the joke, and in part because it is too mortifying to review.
Friendship plays as a kind inverted to the comedy of 2009 I love you, guyIn which Rudd played the beta version requiring the casual alpha of Jason Segel. Indeed, the parallelism between the two films is so pronounced that it must be intentional on the part of Deyoung. But where I love you, guy was a warm bromance in the tradition of Judd Apatow then dominant, Friendship Go to a much darker and more foreign place – in the words of David Ehrlich by Indiewire, it is “I love you, guy For Sickos. At the start of the film, following this atrocious uncomfortable boys’ night, Austin told Craig in uncertain terms that he wants to cancel their emerging friendship. The privilege of licking an attractive toad of the psychedelic substance – the privilege of its sense of resentment and this rejection. Craig’s mental health, then, finally, your own eyes, as you can start wondering if it is all its extended hallucination.
Especially during his descent as a third act in the world of the surrealist bases of the spirit of his protagonist, Friendship takes place as if it were a 97 -minute long I think you should leave sketch. Since the rhythm and the particular tone of this program often involves cutting a little in the middle of pleasures or ending on a deliberately unresolved history rate, and that each multi -keetch episode lasts only 15 minutes, extending the Dada logic of the show with the length of length has its advantages and disadvantages. Friendship Keep the audience, I saw it laughing, at the height so sporadically, throughout its operating time. But then again, it was a press screening in advance wrapped with fans of Tim Robinson, as was obvious of the laughter caused by his simple appearance on the screen before even saying a word. I’m not sure how Friendship I will play with the public who does not already know the denial call but endolori of Robinson. It is a film whose instability and aggressions sometimes remember another recent release of the A24, the comedy of psychological horror of Ari Aster Beautiful a fear.
Lots of sketches on I think you should leaveWho is co-written by Robinson and Zach Kanin, are mainly miniaturized gender usurpations that upset the clichés of familiar television formats: the reality meetings, the infocentric, the television game. East Friendship Be read as a parody of the comedy of male liaison friend, or a careful criticism of expectations? There are certainly comments here on the epidemic of male solitude much discussed, although the disinterest of the film in online phenomena as the radicalizing “Manosphere” means that its ideas are mainly limited to the interactions between these two particular men, rather than engaging with a broader social analysis. In addition, disappointing for a film that proposes to explore male isolation, FriendshipThe female characters are tense to the dimension: wife of Kate Mara Metfud but infinitely patient is a recognizable type from countless Bro comedies and TV sitcoms, while Rudd’s Austin has a woman who is so rarely on the screen, I continued to forget that Austin was not single. It may well be that the anarchic comic talent of Tim Robinson, and his chemistry with the Rudd attractive in a reliable way, is enough to sell this daring experience although unequal in the metacomedy inducing the tortillage. But if FriendshipThe intentionally disturbing tone does not do so for you, or if you are not already familiar with the work of Robinson, I could recommend instead of looking at one of the three existing seasons of I think you should leaveEveryone operating in its entirety almost as long as this film. Released from the constraints of narrative narration into three acts and the traditional development of the characters, the particular brand of humor Gonzo fly.
