Comedy

The Lobster

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  • Title: The Lobster
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The Lobster DVD reviewTaking place is an odd world where being single is apparently the only crime, David (Colin Farrell) checks into a hotel where he is given 45 days to find a partner or face being transformed into an animal for the remainder of his existence. Part metaphor about the pressures society puts on single people to find a mate, and part wacky adventure, The Lobster is an unusual film with a deadpan (and more than a little bleak) sense of humor and a very unconventional view of love.

The first-half of the film, taking place within the hotel, works quite well as David and the other singles (Jessica Barden, Angeliki Papoulia, John C. Reilly, and Ben Whishaw) fumble at finding enforced couplehood. The second-half of the film involving David’s adventures with the equally hard-line single exiles where he finds forbidden love (Rachel Weisz, who also narrates) may not be as strong but still delivers its share of humorous and tragic moments. Available on Blu-ray and DVD, the only extras included are a digital copy of the movie and a single behind-the-scenes featurette.

[Lionsgate, Blu-ray $24.99 / DVD $12.96]

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Sausage Party

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  • Title: Sausage Party
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Sausage PartyThis movie is fucked up. Offering us a glimpse into the lives on anthropomorphic food and other assorted items in a grocery store who sing about the promised land after being bought by god-like humans, Sausage Party follows the misadventures of a hot dog named Frank (Seth Rogen) and his friends (Michael Cera, Kristen Wiig, David Krumholtz, Edward Norton, and Salma Hayek) who discover the truth about what really happens to food in the kitchen. Wrong in (mostly) all the right ways, it has to be seen to be believed.

Offering an inspired amount of cursing and obvious jokes (the bagel doesn’t get along with the lavash, the douche is, well, a real douche) along with several genuinely funny moments, the script by Kyle Hunter, Ariel Shaffir, Rogen, and Evan Goldberg gets too infatuated with sexual innuendo at times (and ignores the inevitable truth of what will happen to all the characters), but while it lasts Sausage Party delivers an animated experience unlike anything you’ve seen before on the big screen.

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The Big Bang Theory – The Hot Tub Contamination

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  • Title: The Big Bang Theory – The Hot Tub Contamination
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The Big Bang Theory - The Hot Tub Contamination

Disagreements arising from Sheldon (Jim Parsons) and Amy‘s (Mayim Bialik) attempts to live together provide the show a chance to offer some interesting pairings in “The Hot Tub Contamination.” While the episode derives its title from the (less interesting) B-story involving Howard (Simon Helberg) and Bernadette‘s (Melissa Rauch) discovery of what happens in their home when some of their friends think they aren’t around, more interesting is the pairing of Penny (Kaley Cuoco) and Sheldon, which delivers the truth behind Sheldon’s committal to always knock three times, and the far-less developed camaraderie between Leonard and Amy who do some bonding of their own over the whackadoodle they both know and love.

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The Big Bang Theory – The Cohabitation Experimentation

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  • Title: The Big Bang Theory – The Cohabitation Experimentation
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The Big Bang Theory - The Cohabitation Experimentation

A burst pipe in Amy‘s (Mayim Bialik) apartment has domino effects for her boyfriend and roommates. Presented as a five-week experiment, Amy convinces Sheldon (Jim Parsons) to live with her in Penny‘s (Kaley Cuoco) apartment while allowing the newlyweds some much-needed alone time. The results are what you would expect – untempered glee from Leonard and Penny and new struggles for Sheldon and Amy (some of which provides amusing moments including Leonard’s words of advice for Amy). The episode also throws in a B-story involving the Walowitzes most notable for the pair calling and hanging up on Raj (Kunal Nayyar) repeatedly in the middle of the night.

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Keanu

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  • Title: Keanu
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KeanuWritten by and starring comedic duo Key & Peele, Keanu feels like most movies based on sketch comedy. More a collection of gags than a truly engaging story, the film offers the basic set-up of two regular guy thrown into desperate circumstances through no fault of their own when a gangster’s kitten shows up on Rell’s (Jordan Peele) door. When the cat is stolen the pair will struggle to play the roles of drug dealing killers to get little Keanu back.

Like most sketch comedy films, the results are mixed at best. Although several of the movie’s jokes work there are just as many that don’t hit their mark. Despite the undeniable cuteness of the kitten, the film’s weak premise may offer plenty of opportunities for the pair to act like fools but that doesn’t necessarily translate into a coherent or entertaining film.

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