No wonder Paramount Vantage decided to bury this.
The Marc Pease Experience (2009)
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Reviews Counted:11
Fresh:2
Rotten:9
Average Rating:3.1/10
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Jason Schwartzman and Ben Stiller clash in this film from actor/director Todd Louiso (LOVE LIZA). Schwartzman stars as Marc Pease, a man desperate to bring his a cappella group to fame. He revisits... Jason Schwartzman and Ben Stiller clash in this film from actor/director Todd Louiso (LOVE LIZA). Schwartzman stars as Marc Pease, a man desperate to bring his a cappella group to fame. He revisits his high school and learns that his teenage girlfriend (ROCKET SCIENCE's Anna Kendrick) is in the midst of a secret romance with his former mentor (Stiller). With this discovery, chaos erupts against the backdrop of the opening night of the school's production of THE WIZ. [More]
Starring: Jason Schwartzman, Ben Stiller, Anna Kendrick
Starring: Jason Schwartzman, Ben Stiller, Anna Kendrick
Director: Todd Louiso
Director: Todd Louiso
Screenwriter: Jacob Koskoff, Todd Louiso
Producer: Michael London, Bruna Papandrea, David Rubin
Reviews for The Marc Pease Experience
Louiso’s misfiring comedy feels less like a comic feast than a thrown-together assemblage of haphazardly nuked leftovers.
Like Schwartzman, Stiller devotes aptly excessive attention to the portrayal of a character too invested in trivial pursuits himself. It's the movie's one decent joke, but, in the absence of laughs, the most the actors can draw from it is a mere grin.
The film is an all-you-can-eat buffet of mediocrity. A spiraling vortex of boredom. A deflated Whoopee cushion.
This is a slight and unessential picture, but its quirky, compassionate tone seems destined to attract a cult following, and members of high-school drama clubs everywhere will be riveted.
If anyone were going to like The Marc Pease Experience, it would be me, and I didn't.
Consider: A bad movie about cheesy a cappella and awful musical theater. What could be more excruciating?
so bereft of anything close to humor that one wonders if it was even meant to be a comedy in the first place.
It’s badly written and inertly directed, with actors who don’t have a clue what drives their characters.
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