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LoganCrews (2861 KP) rated The Full Monty (1997) in Movies

Sep 20, 2020  
The Full Monty (1997)
The Full Monty (1997)
1997 | Comedy, Musical
2
7.3 (15 Ratings)
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I'm sure it's sacrilege saying so, but I got absolutely nothing out of this - in fact I'm deathly sure I hated it. Not because it was exactly awful, per se - moreso because it was just so exhaustively timid, top to bottom. Seldom has a sex comedy ever been more self-conscious of itself, I sat in almost pure impatient silence the entire time waiting for it to end. I mean is it not enough that we rarely ever get to see these tiresome (less than) one note characters actually ever interact as a group? Or that even the overly-familiar sorta-half-jokes have to fizzle out before they're even delivered? And while we're at it, why is the direction so violently bland? And why is the film so indifferent about its own story while also trying to bolster it up as the main selling point? I mean there's hardly any stakes let alone momentum, nor even light fun because everyone just sort of "Yeah sure, whatever"s to everything that happens which is allegedly of consequence. Are we supposed to care? Basically the bone marrow of every sex comedy ever made, stripped down of all the meat and other fixings that made them funny/interesting/charming/memorable. Zero personality, and deliberately stops itself from having any anytime it threatens to use some. At best only mildly amusing, whatever made this entirely pedestrian British 'comedy' get shot up to Best Picture status over something like the mega superior ๐˜“๐˜ฐ๐˜ค๐˜ฌ, ๐˜š๐˜ต๐˜ฐ๐˜ค๐˜ฌ, ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜›๐˜ธ๐˜ฐ ๐˜š๐˜ฎ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฌ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜‰๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ๐˜ด I will never grasp. The whole time I just wanted to see the "Always Sunny" gang or even the Broken Lizard troupe take a stab at this premise and give it the non-passive justice it deserves.