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Her Gloria is basically a walking emotional hazmat zone: toxic, peevish, perpetually self-involved.
(Jason Sudeikis is no peach either).
But her mess feels real, unlike the manufactured naughtiness of most big-screen bad girls.
Absurdity isnt always the mark of simplicity, however.
Its more about the bedrock friendship between three lonely old men.
Its a character movie, not an action movie.
And were always laughing with the characters, not at them and how old they are.
In the new version, Joe, Willie, and Albert watchThe Bacheloretteand get really invested the outcome.
They smoke pot with a gangster and get the munchies.
They attempt a practice heist on a supermarket and get away on a motorized old-folks scooter.
Ann-Margret even pops up as a horny, hot-to-trot grandma to lob lusty innuendos at Arkin.
I kept waiting for someone to make a joke about the size of his prostate.
Consider the whole quotemarky Its just a joke!
tone of online discourse, the rise of smirking insincerity as a political mode and an intellectual dialectic.
Like so much about Condons film, the new songs are perfectly fine, but theyre just not transporting.
More than movies or theme parks, Disney has always been in the business of selling magic.
During her quest, she will summon a humongous gold beastie called Goldar.
The only thing that makes this battle-heavy second half orgy of green-screen destruction remotely interesting is Elizabeth Banks Repulsa.
Meanwhile, Reilly and the mighty Kong are left to save the picture.
And mostly, they succeed.
Or, at least, well enough.
Kong swats the military helicopters out of the sky like a giant swatting pesky flies.
Jackson barks his great vengeance and furious anger.
Hiddleston smolders and briefly wields a samurai sword.
Larson takes surprisingly few pictures for a photographer, but she does get her Fay Wray moment.
And Reilly delivers sorely needed punchlines between exposition about Kong and the islands backstory.
Meanwhile, Kong does his thing and does it well.
The poor misunderstood guy seems destined to keep proving to humankind that he comes in peace.
