Bad Words

Not any movie can implement a vehicular chair-shot. Has to get a point for that. But I'm struggling heavily to find a reason to like this. I don't ask for believability from comedies but honestly, no-one would ever have sex with this guy, and no-one should like this man-child who talks like an 11-year-old who just discovered Xbox Live but is actually a grudge-carrying genius. Maybe I'm getting old and "that's the joke", but this isn't funny to me. I don't even find the premise that promising.

Bad Words is a profane and mean-spirited comedy, and if watching a grown man swear at everyone and take a young boy on a journey through more debauchery than most people experience in a lifetime is something you find funny, Bad Words is going to be the film for you. It's tightly paced, the laughs are frequent until the cliched ending, and Jason Bateman does a great job pulling double duty as both the lead and director. It works and I had a good time while watching it.

I could probably watch Jason Bateman talk shit to people all day. It follows the same basic formula as something like Bad Santa, but I still got plenty of enjoyment and laughs out of it. Curious to see what Jason Bateman directs in the future.

I don't know, Jason Batemen can do a competent job if he's given a decent script, he doesn't make a movie, and generally doesn't ruin one either. Someone decided to hand him this miserable idea and he ran with it, I'll give him credit for directing, but comic genius he ain't and this movie is just plain not funny.

Much funnier then I expected.