Do you believe that funny guy from North Korea cares about Seth Rogen and James Franco? Well, he doesn’t. That’s why The Interview is one of the best guerrilla marketing campaigns ever. And probably even the cleanest and funniest way to get some old stuff out of Sony.
Because The Interview is not a subversive comedy or a political movie, it’s just a dumb and awful film by two overestimated actors/writers/directors that have probably started to end their careers in the year of grace 2014.
The story is clever, two idiots who want to do something serious in their lives trying to set an interview with the president of North Korea (I could have said “dictator”, but I have a bunch of stuff in my mailbox, and I don’t want to lose it).
The problem is that Franco and Rogen are not Dan Aykroyd, Chevy Chase, Mike Myers, or Ben Stiller. They don’t have enough talent to be comedians at that level. They can talk of huge cocks, sexual behaviours and stuff like that, but they are nothing more than this.
Comedy is the most challenging genre of all, that’s why Lubitsch, Chaplin, and Wilder are among the greatest of all time, and actors like Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, and Jerry Lewis were outstanding in comedy and drama.
There’s nothing more important than making people laugh, it’s a great responsibility, and it’s hard to reach this goal with not even one good joke.
Sorry guys, but really, maybe you have to reconsider your priorities.