Horse Girl (2020) - Movie Review

After briefly talking about Alison Brie in my last review, I figured it’d be worth checking out her latest starring role today as well. And man, was I thrown for a loop; she is straight-up unrecognisable in this thing. I mean, I literally just watched her on the big screen just a few hours earlier, and yet seeing her in this, I had to keep reminding myself that this is the same actress who first caught my attention in Sleeping With Other People. And the content itself is reflective of that, both in that it’s a marked departure from her more comedic work, and that it’s largely about surreal disconnects from reality. Namely, her own.

Sextuplets (2019) - Movie Review

Why this premise still a thing that people think is a good idea? A comedic actor reaches a certain level of notoriety that, in order to make bank on their presence on-screen, someone decides that the best way to go is to make more of the actor to spread around, i.e. double-casting. It’s essentially the textbook example of ‘too much of a good thing’, and what makes it worse is that it is rarely if ever implemented by comedians who are tolerable all on their own, let alone in multitudes.

Eddie Murphy did it with the Nutty Professor movies (first one was alright, but c'mon, The Klumps was pretty dire stuff), Adam Sandler infamously tried it in Jack & Jill, and the whole enterprise has become such a cliché that it even made for one of Tropic Thunder’s gag trailers. It’s an idea that shouldn’t exist in a modern release to begin with, so you can imagine how well it turns out in the hands of perennial shite script magnet Marlon Wayans.