7/10
A great dark comedy and instant cult classic...
7 December 2009
Wow, the people leaving negative comments on here must have not watched the same movie as I did or just don't own the necessary intelligence to get a movie like this. First off, this movie was incredibly well written and insanely funny if you can manage to understand dark comedy and the fact that just because its not blatantly attempting to make jokes like Paul Blart, which I will hit on after this, doesn't mean it isn't funny. You have to have a certain level of intelligence to understand a movie like this. Secondly, for those that have compared it to Paul Blart, why just because both involve mall cops do you group the two together? Both movies involve mall cops and the similarities end there. These movies have nothing to do with each other as Paul Blart, while I embarrassingly liked, was just a copy of the idiot humor comedies Chris Farley used to do, Observe and Report is of exceptional comedic quality. On another note, Seth Rogen isn't really that funny. He has been blessed with good scripts and has good delivery, especially when using cuss words. I will agree with those on here who have doubted Seth Rogans praise the last few years. In fact, I have to say Michael Pena's role in Observe and Report with his comedic undertones and lisp was by far the funniest character in the movie. Anna Faris also did an exceptional job, the best of her career in fact, especially in the scene immediately following her altercation with the flasher. Oh yeah and the wonderful cameo by Danny McBride was a scene stealer. So all and all I believe this was an incredible dark comedy with an incredible soundtrack that over time will come to be a cult classic.
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