Funny People

Despite the name of the movie, it lacks a lot of comedy, but Rogan played his character pretty well. Movie divulges from the main plot towards the end and its super redundant .

Filme legalzinho, o roteiro é bacana, o filme tem algumas cenas engraçadas e outras não, e a história do filme é bacana, achei legal e meio diferente a dupla de adam Sandler e seth rogen, o filme também mostra como é os comediantes de stand-up que ficou legal no filme, com tudo isso, eu recomendo esse filme.

A very meta and self-aware reflection on Adam Sanders career and the inner workings of the Hollywood comedy scene. Adam Sandler plays against type very well as the genuinely grounded and bitter alternate version of himself, washed up and fed up with his recent flops. Which makes him the perfect foil for Seth Rogen's character, who's in the early stage of the cycle. He's more eager, naive, and is usually just winging it as he goes along. But he seems to genuinely warm up Adam Sandler's character, and their unusual friendship really carries the movie. There are also a plethora of great cameos, including Jonah Hill, Aubrey Plaza, James Taylor, Jason Schwartzman, Norm MacDonald, Sarah Silverman, and Ray Romano. Just like the title, the movie is pretty funny with its satire on Hollywood and fame. The story drags on a bit with the messy love affair subplot, but thankfully it doesn't eat up too much runtime and isn't too bad overall. This is easily one of Adam Sandler's best performances and one of my personal favorites of his movie lineup.

Definitely recommend it.

Prob one of Jude Apatows best movie & best comedies of all time

It's the oddest thing when a really good movie is made, and then, they just forget to end it, so the actors stay on the screen and keep going. Really, this is what happened with this movie. A really good, interesting plot, with Adam Sandler basically playing himself, and a supporting cast of everyone who was funny at the time. A touching story, and you really care about everyone, and then, the plot is resolved and then... The movie just keeps going. So weird. If you just stop watching it at the 90 minute mark, you're good.

A different take on the usual Adam Sandler movie. Still kicks ass

When Sympathy Turns to Confusion It's hard to fathom Judd Apatow's intentions. Is this meant to be a serious comedy? Adam Sandler takes center stage in this bewildering endeavor. He delivers his best performance yet, but the character he portrays is, to be honest, quite unpleasant. This individual has achieved fame and fortune, yet lacks any depth of character. He is a lazy, ignorant, foolish, self-pitying, spoiled, uneducated, and dim-witted individual, and the list goes on. What's strange is that the story is structured in a way that suggests we should sympathize with him, even relate to his situation. At the start of the film, he is told he has a fatal disease, but miraculously he recovers, and then we are subjected to another hour of the movie where new characters are introduced. I wanted to flee the theater and scream. There are a few humorous moments, and Jason Schwartzman and Eric Bana deliver strong performances. However, could someone please explain to me, what on earth was this?

Star Spangled - "seriously funny" look at what comedy is - thought provoking about what relationships mean - values, priorities, life, and avoided cliches.

I avoided this when it came out. The word of mouth reaction was bad, so I didn't give it a chance. After seeing it, I think they botched the marketing. Another Judd Apatow comedy... but that isn't this. This is more of an Apatow attempt at doing a take on the Steel Magnolias or Terms of Endearment.... only this time focusing on a flawed and lonely male protagonist instead of a lovable dying beauty. It has some of the same element of comedy setting up tragedy... but the highs are not as high and the lows are not as low. It is a midlife crisis of a movie, about regret, the difficulty of personal growth, loyalty... there is a lot going on here. It is way better than I expected. It isn't going to be for everyone. It isn't really an Adam Sandler movie, or a Seth Rogan movie, even though they play characters that are close to their past roles and even autobiographical enough in Sandler's case to seem like that is where we are headed. No, this is a movie of an older man who is dealing with regret. Sandler regrets his choices... but so does his ex, and so does her husband. They are all dealing with regret over bad choices, and they are given a moment to make new choices. And this is where the movie elevated for me. It got a bit slow in the middle, but that was showing us that Sandler's character was not ready for the family life he thought he wanted. But he doesn't figure that out. And that leads to the denuomont. This moment reminded me of Castaway. It is the one thing I really hated in that movie. Tom Hanks comes back to find that he has lost everything. The love of his life that got him through everything has moved on, is married and has kids. That is all we know about her. She has a wonderful family. And she runs out to leave it all to go back to her old flame. After a few minutes, she figures it out and goes back inside... but the unstated damage to her marriage is done. Funny people handles the same scenario much differently and much better. We understand Sandler. He has a hollow life, moving from empty one night stand to empty one night stand. He has a terrible back story that explains his difficulty with relationships.. he has none at all with his family. And he gets almost certainly fatal cancer. This propels him to look back and reach out to the one person he connected with and almost made a commitment before his flaws kicked in and he ruined it. At the same time, we meet the love of his life. We see her pain that his actions caused. But we also see that she is in a flawed marriage, and trust has been broken. Time apart is not helping them. She already has doubts before Sandler shows up. It is his terminal disease that softens her heart towards him. This depth of development makes her betrayal of her mariage believable. And it isn't resolved quickly or easily. She doesn't ride off with her old love. Sandler doesn't get the girl. The husband doesn't get off Scott free. But the couple learns what is important through the experience. And our hero does not. At least, not right away. He lashes out, focused only on himself.... it is a real and believable response. And it takes him a good amount of time to think about his mistakes and what kind of person he wants to be. And we finish with baby steps, reaching out to a paid friend and for the first time showing growth... and it is through helping him with his comedy. A complete twist of the romantic tragedy, where the true love story is a buddy movie where our hero learns from his mistakes and begins to work on being an actual friend. Is it perfect? No. But it is a very different story, with very believable psychological situations where people make very bad choices in very real ways. It was way better than I had been led to believe, and way less of a comedy than I think people thought it was going to be. I'm glad I finally gave it a chance.