Theater Whore: The Interview

The Interview 8/10

The fact that this movie was being treated the way it had with threats and such is hilarious after watching this. The Interview is funny as fuck. This is one of those movies like Stepbrothers or Tropic Thunder where you have to watch it a few times because you can easily miss funny moments because so many of them happen. Once you get past all the drama and shit involved with this movie just being released it makes it even funnier.

This is about James Franco as an entertainment show host named Dave Skylark. If you've seen Extra, Access Hollywood, or Entertainment Tonight you'll know what kinda show it is. His producer Aaron Rapoport played by Seth Rogen is confronted by a former classmate that points out that he works on 60 Minutes so what he does is more important. After being conflicted over his feelings about this, Dave brings him the story of Kim Jong-un played by Randall Park being a fan and decide to try and get an interview with him.

Two CIA agents come to their house after a drug fueled party and ask them to take out the North Korean leader while they're there. Lizzy Caplan plays agent Lacey and is funny and ridiculously hot looking. She actually dresses herself like the type of women that Dave is into, honeypotting him. The term honeypot and honeydick is used and I laughed every damned time.

The plan is to kill the leader by using a ricin strip but it is eaten by a guard immediately since it was hidden in gum. The next batch of poison sent happens during a scene that had me laughing like an idiot and glad that I wasn't watching in a theater. 

Yes. This new movie is available On Demand or in some theaters. Dave meets Kim and Kim is enamored with him and a huge fan. Kim gives him a tour of the country and party's with him and is a really good guy that is living in his fathers shadow. Dave starts having second and third thoughts about killing him. Meanwhile, Aaron falls in love with the very, very cute Sook played by Diana Bang.

This movie is so mired in controversy that it doesn't deserve that it sucks that so many people are downplaying how funny it really is. Franco is funnier than he was in This Is The End and Rogen's scream during a scene where he has to hide something in an unfortunate place almost made me choke on my soda. This movie is funny, has violent/gory parts, offensive stuff, and a very cute puppy. I hate that the joy that the people that made this movie should be celebrating is being shit on by people who already hate these actors going in. Plus, bad reviews always get more attention. When was the last time someone said “Hey, this is good. Check it out!”

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