Hot Pursuit (Warner Bros, PG-13)
After the cookie-cutter, foreseeable ending there were the funny outtakes roll next to the credits—and it worked.
comedy
Get Hard (Warner Bros., R)
The movie is basically a feature-length prison rape joke, which is probably to be expected, given the plot.
What We Do in the Shadows (Unison Films/Paladin, NR)
It has a lot of great ideas and introduced plenty of funny scenarios, but it never fully fleshes anything out and is constantly chasing after the next thing, to diminishing returns.
The DUFF (CBS Films, PG-13)
It’s hard to fault The DUFF for aspiring to be as good as those aforementioned high school classics, but really it only makes The DUFF suffer when held up against them.
Hot Tub Time Machine 2 (Paramount Pictures, R)
Once again directed by Steve Pink, the time-traveling hot tub is back with a sequel, and it hit my demographic right on the head.
Kingsman: The Secret Service (Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, R)
Vaughn pushes everything to eleven to make the point that the whole concept is just silly so we might as well enjoy it.
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (Paramount Pictures, PG)
The action/adventure elements of the story are fun for kids, but for adults it just seems to drag on. We know where the story is going and spend the majority of the film waiting for […]