REVIEW FOR THE MOVIE "THE INTERVIEW."

THE KUHNS REPORT

LAS VEGAS - Hello America and how is the world treating you?

I was asked by a few people to  give a review of the  movie "The Interview."
Okay, here it is folks: "The Interview" is a dumb, stupid comedy.  It was aimed at fans and followers of  the humor set down by Seth Rogen and his sometimes collaborator James Franco.

The film was eventually made available by Sony to a few Independent theaters and online. This movie, turns out, isn't as sharp or politically motivated as the producers and stars suggested. The movie is  chock full of silly sight  gags --- fifth grader comedy and raunchy jokes. The movie suggests that the talk show host named David Skylark (Franco)  and his producer Aaron(Rogen) has a show that is one of Kim's (leader of North Korea) favorite shows. One day after a drug induced mind bender trip along comes an attractive CIA agent (Lizzy Caplan) who asks the two idiots to do the CIA and the country a big favor and  "take Kim out."

The Interview doesn't stray much from a stupid, party-heavy  scenario defined by these two men and is a repeat of prior comedies with  Rogen (if you want to call them that). The movie is heavy on cameos, childish acting, vulgar language and crass material. For adult enjoyment, this is a loser.

The stunt where Kim's head graphically explodes could have been left out of the film and I think the use of Kim's name could have been changed for the movie. Why provoke and agitate people when it would have been so easy to make a few cosmetic changes.

Personally, these two guys brand of comedy is not funny to me. There used to be a time in show business when comedians could make a movie and/or do stand up comedy without resorting to vulgarity and filth in order to get a laugh.

My conclusion: This movie is 112 minutes of constant profanity, an attempt at crude, sexual humor, it has some drug use and bloody violent scenes. My rating for this film gets a big C-, at best. - And, that's my opinion. Make your own decisions, You decide.

BRADLEY W. KUHNS, Ph.D., O.M.D.
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