Has anyone watched this movie? if so, please do give me your honest review on it, or how you felt about it. I was looking it up recently and it's at a 50/50 review rate. So i rather trust my fellow otaku people, thanks for your time. 1 Funny review Spoiler (Move your mouse to the spoiler area to reveal the content) Show Spoiler Hide Spoiler The Interview is nothing more than a hodgepodge of random gags loosely strung together. The story concerns Dave Skylark (James Franco) a bumbling idiot that hosts a TV talk show. With the help of his producer Aaron Rapoport (Seth Rogen) he lands a meeting with the dictator of North Korea. It starts off promisingly enough. A rosy cheeked schoolgirl with a beatific face lovingly sings a little ditty. Her Korean is translated in subtitled lyrics that pleads "Die America, die! Oh please won't you die? It would fill my tiny heart with joy!" The lyrics express extremist attitudes, but the sweetly sung delivery from the face of innocence does induce laughter. After that, it's all downhill with a tiresome preoccupation with potty-mouth humor. The script is staggeringly bad. Forget a send-up of the political situation. The writing is mainly dumbed-down raunch about body parts. Other lines are so stupid they barely register as jokes. Case in point: An argument between buddies Dave and Aaron has Dave repeating the phrase "They hate us 'cause they ain't us" so many times I thought the projector was broken. It also doesn't help that the actor playing Kim Jong-un looks absolutely nothing like him. He's male and Asian, but that's it. Actor Randall Park affects an accent so awful it borders on a racist stereotype. The character also bangs lots of women, drinks margaritas and listens to Katy Perry music. I should think North Korea would champion this movie because it wallows in the offensiveness to which America's critics accuse us. If The Interview is a threat to anything, it's to the definition of cinema as an art form.
I don't think I could of found a worse way to spend an hour+. I mean, sure. James Franco was funny in some scenes, but Seth Rogan refuses to do any character other then himself, and he will never again reach audiences like he did in SB. Truth of the matter is; Once in a while, that's a good shtick. But I haven't seen any good performances from him (Loosely put, mind you,) outside of playing the same character. And those are only slightly enjoyable, but now it's just annoying. Correction; Any transformers movie would be a worse way to spend time. So, the Interview has something there. I mean, maybe.
