Okay, I'm a little embarrassed to admit this but I went and saw Amy Schumer's movie today. I've been on kind of a mini-Amy Schumer kick lately, and I thought (from the previews) that it might be like one of her stand-up routines -- smart, brutally non-PC and occasionally funny.
It wasn't anything like I expected. The trailer shows every comedy scene in the movie. The rest of it is serious, with some pretty good acting. Her dad dies, she falls in love with a guy, they have problems, they break up. In between the one-liners shown in the trailer, it's not really a comedy. Okay, it's a Rom-Com, (with all the ups and downs that implies), but with some real serious scenes and some real serious acting. Serious camera work and a script that was written down.
Okay, it's not the best movie of the year. It followed the standard Rom-Com template -- guy wins girl, guy loses girl, guy tries to make up with girl. Nobody's gonna win any Oscars for this. But it wasn't actually half bad and I saw a side of Schumer I hadn't seen before.
It was surprisingly not terrible.
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