I Love Super Dave... but this documentary kinda did him an injustice. My biggest issue was the fact that they spent a bit too much time with comedians instead of his family and there were way too many reactions to his clips, rather than just showing the clips. Why would I care if Kimmel or Silverman laugh at his old clips? Was that necessary to show?
I wanted more insight into his family and more of Albert Brooks, his daughter, and grandkids. Just showing a majority of comedians rehashing Dave's old jokes/clips seemed like a total waste. It came off as just filler. They put way more focus on the people they interviewed compared to Super dave.
Especially because most of the people they interviewed have a stain of political hackness to them these days which is a turnoff. Reiner, Kimmel, Silverman, Oswalt, etc embedded themselves in the last 4-5 years into politics and turned off at least 50% of the country. It's hard to take them seriously these days, unfortunately, which is why comedians shouldn't do hard politics unless it's part of some humor/joke. It's just hard for me to separate their public activism from their comedy.
I still recommend it, but I wish they had cut out the superfluous reactions, etc.
I wanted more insight into his family and more of Albert Brooks, his daughter, and grandkids. Just showing a majority of comedians rehashing Dave's old jokes/clips seemed like a total waste. It came off as just filler. They put way more focus on the people they interviewed compared to Super dave.
Especially because most of the people they interviewed have a stain of political hackness to them these days which is a turnoff. Reiner, Kimmel, Silverman, Oswalt, etc embedded themselves in the last 4-5 years into politics and turned off at least 50% of the country. It's hard to take them seriously these days, unfortunately, which is why comedians shouldn't do hard politics unless it's part of some humor/joke. It's just hard for me to separate their public activism from their comedy.
I still recommend it, but I wish they had cut out the superfluous reactions, etc.