Day 104 - Game Over, Man!

Day 104          Game Over, Man! [2018]

                          

Screenplay                    Anders Holm & Kyle Newacheck

Director                         Kyle Newacheck

Cinematography            Grant Smith

Music                            Steve Jablonksy

Leads                            Blake Anderson, Adam DeVine, Anders Holm, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Aya Cash, Neal McDonough, Daniel Stern, Steve Howey, Rhona Mitra

Production                     Mail Order Company, Point Grey Pictures, Scott Rudin Productions

IMDb                                 5.5/10*

Rotten Tomatoes                10%*

I fucking love these guys man. I’ve watched Workaholics four times. Four times. That’s nearly 121 hours (5 days) of my life spent watching that hilarious show. I was always going to watch this movie, and I was always going to like it more than I should. However, I can hold my hand up and admit that this was not a good movie. The characters weren’t too far off their characters in Workaholics, but I think they should have just made a Workaholics movie, it would have been a lot better than this. You could almost tell that these were TV guys, used to making stuff as funny as they could with a low budget, who had been given a whole lot more money to play with and they spared no expense. Plenty of celebrity cameos, some friendly faces from their TV show too and yet it just wasn’t quite so good. It was bad slapstick. There were the squeamish, disgusting moments I have come to expect from them, as well as the odd moments that cracked me up, but it was certainly not a laugh-a-minute. It was a shame, but perhaps I expected too much, and I’m sure the guys want to develop their careers beyond the show that made them. And to be fair they all have. DeVine seems to be everywhere at the moment, Anderson has had plenty of TV roles and cameos and Holm has also been in his fair share of movies and TV shows. I don’t recommend you watch this movie – unless you liked Workaholics – and even if you did it’s unlikely you’ll enjoy this. (But I liked them too much to give them a bad rating and I still kind of enjoyed it).

Acting                           1.5 / 4

Writing                            2 / 4

Cinematography              2 / 4

Music                              3 / 4

HWF rating              2.5 / 4

*Film released recently so likely to change.