Vulgarity and sentimentality are set up in a fight to the death. I laughed a few times, mostly at Jonah Hill's nerdy but casual smarts.
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08/29/09
Funny People (2009)
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Reviews Counted:207
Fresh:141
Rotten:66
Average Rating:6.3/10
Consensus: Funny People features the requisite humor, as well as considerable emotional depth, resulting in Judd Apatow's most mature film to date.
Theatrical Release:28-08-2009
Synopsis: Over the past few years, writer/director Judd Apatow (The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up) has shown that nothing?not even losing your virginity or the miracle of childbirth?is sacred. About his... [More]
Reviews for Funny People
21 - 40 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
Funny People is genuinely funny at times, predictably foul-mouthed, touching and surprisingly frank in its approach to death, love and loyalty.
08/29/09
It’s a film that is more ambitious than Knocked Up or The 40-Year Virgin and yet somehow more frustrating, too.
08/29/09
It’s very funny. And it’s awesome to see Apatow have a bash at moving away from his undeniably successful formula.
08/29/09
An enjoyable, frequently funny comedy-drama with terrific performances from Sandler and Rogen, but it's also way too long and the first half is much stronger than the second.
08/29/09
Despite this film's sharp dialog and terrific story, its bloated, undisciplined editing keeps it from being a classic.
08/29/09
We've got the first two-thirds of a five-star comedy, followed by what feels like seventeen-thirds of a duff romcom.
08/29/09
Funny People is one of the most amusing, least sentimental films about mortality to come out of Hollywood.
08/29/09
It just about compensates for its many indulgences with typically warm humour and a knockout lead performance from Adam Sandler which shows a deepening maturity in the actor that could land him awards attention.
07/25/09
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10/13/09
It's interesting stuff, I feel myself wanting to like it more than I did. Judd Apatow has a lot to say, he just hasn't mastered the tools to say it well.
09/11/09
The film is also an admiring portrait of the artist as Californian solipsist -- unburdened by personal ties or even the need to seem intelligent, free to follow his own random, petty, moment-by-moment train of thought.
09/11/09
Funny People has some very funny moments but don't expect a joke fest. And don't expect a tight film either. At two and a half hours, it is not one but two films... and at least one of them shouldn't have been made.
09/10/09
It's a good deal more interesting than your average mainstream comedy.
09/09/09
While you believe a lot of what happens in the first part of the film, credibility lessens in the second.
09/09/09
Despite its flaws, this film has a beguiling candour and reflectiveness which is new for Apatow and Sandler.
09/09/09
Funny People would have been funnier and more meaningful with fewer offensive jokes and more self-control from the undeniably talented Apatow.
09/09/09
Comedy king Judd Apatow delivers another hit with this hilarious personal story that also deals with the big issues in a touching way.
09/08/09
While not Judd Apatow's finest hour, Funny People still strikes the same rich vein of well-produced drama-comedy as previous efforts.
09/08/09
A surfeit of the kind of crude, sexually graphic jokes that work in a darkly lit stand up comedy stores and Adam Sandler's unremittingly morose George drag the film down
09/04/09
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