Brother Bear The new comedy from the creators of “Griffins” turned out to be a nostalgic-filmish fairy tale for adults. Here, Xavier-Piccard, in a voiceover, praises the cool helicopters, telling the story of the wish that came true that revived the teddy bear. Here they play the cult episode of “Airplane”, here on the ringtones of mobile phones plays the March of the Empire from “Star Wars” and the title theme of “Knight of the Roads”, here the main characters are fans of “Flash Gordon” and meet their idol – Sam Jones himself, and the authorities brag about their acquaintance with Tom Skerrit.
The living bear manages to joke over everything in a row, either breaking into vulgarity and vulgarity, or again humors on the serial and movie themes, scolding Sandler’s “Twins”, watches a show in which celebrities pour dirt on each other for eyes, notes the similarity of the most amazing cameo with Green Lantern, and declares that he sings better than Peter Griffin.
It is very pleasant that in Hollywood, an active trend has become to do something old-school and nostalgic, remembering cult films and legendary music from film to film. “Third extra” in this regard, the picture is certainly bright and spectacular. With the appearance of Jones, you experience the same emotions that the hero of Wahlberg, as if you yourself are standing in his place, after the voiceovers about the lousy “Superman Returns” and Brandon Ruth I want to applaud standing, well, and the joke that the Imperial March is music from “Twilight” in general, perhaps the funniest and most exquisite in the whole picture!
Nevertheless, in addition to star cameos and regular references to something, the picture has a holistic plot. Parasitizing, however, on all romkov cliches, banal to the point of impossibility, and once again raising the topic that the average man is a lazy, vulgar and infantile pig, but not devoid of charm, feelings and charisma. And in the right moments, sometimes, brains. In general, the main character is the same Peter Griffin, Homer Simpson, Kenny Powers and others whom we love despite all their unbearability.
At the same time, the character Wahlberg is still not an avid life cynic, not a womanizer and not a freak. He does not set himself global goals and career growth, but he lives quite happily, not wanting to grow up psychologically, but physiologically, of course, in need of sex and love. Mila Kunis, the film needs only for a cardboard figurine in the story of friendship, it does not give out anything outside the usual template, it does not appear naked again, and it will not say anything intelligent and profound in the film.
But the character-special effect, computer-wired, living and talking toy bear - this is really a hero bright and deep, forced to put up with, from part of the "betrayal" of his best friend, with his own inferiority and alienity of the surrounding world, tuned by people for people. However, with the search for work, he did not get along as an example to many representatives of the human species, and popularity due to TV shows in childhood was, making it still recognizable on the streets.
“The third extra” in its concept strongly resembles “Beaver” from Jodie Foster, in the best sense of such a comparison. And despite the fact that the R rating here is much more adult, the picture turned out to be much softer and more cheerful. After all, it's not a drama, it's a comedy. Although, sometimes it seems that we are given some kind of children's fairy tale, I don't know why issued under the rum for teenagers, stuffed with tits and swear words for the sake of an adult audience. The strangest “family movie”, a banter parody on rom-com or is it really a “fairy tale for adults” from the creators of the Griffins? Here, perhaps, the answer is not so important as the audience impressions. Comedy should be funny, romcom - lyrical, and a fairy tale should have a mandatory happy ending. With all its tasks, the film copes perfectly.
Starting from the childhood of the heroes, watching as a brother-bear turns into a cute jackass, drawing the face of a cat Garfield on a half-naked prostitute, taking drugs, and reviewing old cult paintings and TV series in a jumble with modern novelties, you see no longer a toy and no bear, but a mirror of a society in which there are not many Teddy bears, and not the fact that it is bad, not the fact that it is good. All this has long become the norm of life, and correctly selected irony and deftly presented half-truth receives an emotional and vital response in the audience’s heart, which means that the movie falls exactly into the goal.
Of course, it does not do without corporate-Griffin vulgarities such as dialogue about farts, and not only dialogue, absolutely disgusting scenes about shit on the floor, nonsense about the fear of thunder and the like. But since the Griffins have a big fan base, it means that someone will like this part of the humor. At least beyond that, there's a lot more really funny and a lot less nauseating in the film.
The dullness of the secondary characters here is more than compensated by the presence of cool cameos, not funny jokes are in the minority, because really great humor in the picture in bulk, well, the completely dull Mila Kunis is at least cute externally, and, perhaps, the girl is brighter, smarter and better - the main character simply did not deserve. In general, everything is balanced, not ideal, but professionally and brightly, and for cinematic humor and successful references and the picture at all I want to endlessly praise.
8 out of 10
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