Comedian and actor Chris D’Elia, known for his dynamic physical comedy, explains why the NFL would be way more entertaining if it were real lions, bears and Vikings battling each other, that babies are the worst prize ever, and that you should never ask a Cuban directions unless you’re ready for the best time of your life.
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Did you people see the same film I saw?
Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.
The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.
Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.
I knew this was going to be bad when I realised, two minutes in, that D'Elia has that desperately annoying habit of saying "like" in the way normal people use commas. He'd said like, so often, that I couldn't hear anything, it became white noise. It didn't help that it seemed he'd taken 80s comedians' advice and, presumably, snorted a couple of lines before taking the stage. Frantic, sweaty, incoherent does not make for the best stand up.
I made it 9 minutes in. If you saw Pauly Shore's Christmas Story appearance in the first season of Mad TV, where he tells a totally incoherent story about eggnog for 10 minutes? Same deal. But worse. Not just because it's not 1993 anymore and comedy has evolved, but also because we already had a Pauly Shore man, the clone has no business anywhere.
(This review will have "spoilers," although none of them funny. This review will be 100 percent accurate due to those spoilers)Imagine, wait...come closer...closer....even closer......now imagine.....taking a joke, beating it into the ground.....coming up with five slightly less funny variations....THEN getting two and a half more minutes out of it. Now, imagine this bit....saying imagine, come closer, approximately 25 more times, all in the same tone with the same body movements and all devoid completely of humor. And you've just watched his show.How I decided on 2 out of 10: I watched the first fifteen minutes, stopped watching then averaged in the last part of the show as if it was a 10 out of 10 for the remainder. Just to be fair. Quite frankly, it should be a 1.5 out of 10 but they don't do halves.Disclaimer: I actually think he's funny on Undateable. So, I went into it thinking he was funny. Your review may not be so kind.
I'll just say that I'm a fan of Chris D'Elia. He's had some really good shows, but this one is honestly a complete pile of crap. It feels like he just made every joke up on the spot and got his rich dad to rent a theater for him. This is probably one of the worst stand up routines I've ever had the misfortune of seeing.Each joke is stretched out and emphasized to waste as much time as possible, and the jokes seriously aren't even funny. You can almost feel the disappointment of the audience. If you want to see a funny Chris D'eila show, watch 'White male black comic'. Please do yourself a favor and don't buy/rent/watch this train wreck. Peace