Monday, May 23, 2011
It's Kind of a Funny Story (2010)
A New York City kid is stressed out at his elite private school and all the demands on him so he checks himself into a psych ward. Zach Galifinakis is a charming mental patient and there are a few funny crazy people moments, but all of the montage-y parts about the main character's stressful life are pretty boring. There are sort of two movies here: one is a pleasant indie movie about a basically sane teenager becoming friends with a wacky fringe character, and the other is a bad, zany comedy in which the protagonist suffers from random, fake-looking projectile vomiting. Still, very watchable.
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I liked this movie a lot. The writer/directors' other movies, "Half Nelson" and "Sugar", are great, for people who haven't seen them. I guess I forgave the unevenness and weird tone of "Funny Story" by thinking of it as basically "Half Nelson" for tweens (i.e. a thing that it is weird that it exists, but hey, sure, I'll watch that.)
ReplyDeleteI saw Half Nelson in the theater with RCK and he fell asleep before the previews were over.
ReplyDeleteAnother solid funny mental patient movie is "Dream Team" with Michael Keaton.