Funny People (2009)

• Year: 2009
• Released: 31 Jul 2009
• Country: United States
• Adwords: 3 nominations
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1201167/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/Funny_People
• Metacritics: https://www.metacritic.com/movie/funny-people
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English
• MPA Rating: R
• Genre: Comedy, Drama
• Runtime: 146 min
• Writer: Judd Apatow
• Director: Judd Apatow
• Cast: Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen, Leslie Mann
• Keywords: cancer, male friendship, comedian,

	6.3/10
	60/100
	69% – Critics
	48% – Audience

Funny People Storyline

George Simmons, who started his performing career as a stand-up comic, is a movie star, generally of high concept lowbrow movies. His movie star status affords him many privileges in life, such as all the indiscriminate sex he wants, which is a lot, although he would admit that he leads a lonely life in not having what he considers true close friends. He has just been diagnosed as having a rare form of leukemia, which his doctors want to try to treat with experimental therapy. He decides not to divulge the news of his illness to the public. Reflecting on his life because of the diagnosis, George decides to go back to his roots of performing stand-up at comedy clubs. It is at one of those impromptu comedy club appearances that he meets Ira Wright, a struggling comic. Ira isn’t adept as a stand-up comic, largely as he doesn’t know how to deliver the material with impact. He is not averse to doing whatever to get laughs at his shows, from paying friends and acquaintances to be audience plants, to stealing material. He has a “woe is me” attitude about his lack of success and his need to make money as a clerk at a supermarket deli counter. Regardless of quitting that job, he sleeps on the pull-out sofa of his friend, Mark Taylor Jackson, who has a modicum of fame starring in “Yo Teach”, a second rate sitcom albeit airing on network TV. Another interloper in Mark’s apartment is their mutual friend, Leo Koenig, a fellow stand-up with slightly better comic instincts than Ira. It is only out of circumstance that it is Ira who George chooses first to write him some material, then second to work as his personal assistant, that latter job largely as his friend for hire, which Ira gladly accepts as a way both for a glimpse into fame and into comic success. George also contemplates reconnecting with his old girlfriend, former actress Laura, the one he believes got away, their break-up twelve years ago because of his infidelity. Laura is now married to Clarke, an Aussie businessman who is often away on business in China, they who have two adolescent daughters. George eventually learns that Laura is unhappy in her marriage, in part because of Clarke’s absences and what she believes is also his infidelity. George and Laura do reconnect as she finds out about his dire diagnosis. George’s relationship with both Laura and Ira may be affected by the ups and downs in his life prognosis.

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WHICH JOKE DID YOU FIND FUNNY?

Adam Sadler plays an unlikable comedian, George Simmons, who finds out he may be terminal with AML and tries an experimental drug. He decides to do stand up again when he meets comedian wanna-be Ira Wright (Seth Rogen) attempting stand-up. Sadler is impressed by Ira and hires him to write jokes and to be his personal go-fer. Ira finds out about the illness and convinces George to tell his family and friends about it. George plays the death card to patch up relationships, then suddenly he isn’t going to die anymore. George re-examines his life, but even at mid-life he is still an immature a-hole. Everyone has sex but Ira, which seems to be a sad joke.

I found the jokes and humor to be at best, lame. The language was crude and sexual. Brief nudity. Perhaps what is best about the movie is that it makes sit-coms look really lame. If you think a guy saying “tweet” over and over again, spinning around in a circle is funny, then this movie is for you.

Funny outside, sad inside

It’s not something new, that comedians (or clowns for that matter), have a sad lonely side to them. This is being explored to quite the big degree here. With an excellent cast. But all starts off with something I don’t like at all: Prank calls. Never found them funny and only the calls where they try to sell something to you seem worse.

Having said that, this is only the beginning and is supposed to be a character beat. Now Sandler is playing a comedian, but he can draw from personal experiences. Others here play themselves (no pun intended). Overall this has an amazing cast. I watched the extended cut, which adds more minutes to an already long movie. But I didn’t mind. It is predictable, but it is also fun. The drama works and it showcases that Sandler can do more than just being silly. I understand that it’s still what most of his fans want to see him in – and not dramas like this. It’s unfortunate

Just not my cup of tea…

Despite my reservations about Adam Sandler, I was sort of interested in Funny People. But apart from Apatow’s decent direction and Seth Rogan(surprisingly as I am not a fan of his either), I didn’t like Funny People at all. A big issue is the length, it was much too long and the last hour or so was very long-winded. I lost my interest generally with the story because the dramatic elements were so pedestrian, while the script fails in its attempts to be both funny and poignant. The funny moments were more cringe-worthy and irritating if anything, while the parts that strived to be poignant came across as schmaltzy. Editing could’ve flowed better while the soundtrack I don’t remember much of. The characters I felt nothing for either, they were so uninteresting I couldn’t relate to them. The acting apart from Rogan was poor, I often find Sandler irritating and his shtick generally tired and Funny People didn’t do much to change that, the drama was marginally better though not in the same league as his best performances in Reign Over Me and Punch Drunk Love, but the comedy is forced. Eric Bana on the other hand is just painful and never seems comfortable here. All in all, just wasn’t my cup of tea. 1/10 Bethany Cox