9/3/2023 0 Comments Nick schwartz comedy![]() ![]() Having established that less-than-startling premise, "Spring Awakening" tosses it aside to replace it with something infinitely worse. They are then compelled to enter against much younger teams. (The other member, the gay Zane, is left behind, primarily to set up a joke where he has to hide in his house from the deceased’s unhappy family and complain about going back into the closet.) The group is then startled to discover that spring breakers overrun the town and that the bar where they used to hang out has been running its own version of the Buddy Games. ![]() ![]() This time around, four of the six-Bobfather (Duhamel, also returning as director and producer), Doc ( Kevin Dillon), Shelly ( Dan Bakkedahl), and Bender ( Nick Swardson)-have absconded with the ashes of their late comrade, struggling actor Durfy (the one played by Dax Shepard in the original), and are determined to scatter them at the beach resort where they first devised the all-important Buddy Games that evidently remain their sole focus in life. When it was all over, viewers could at least cling to the comfort that if Duhamel were allowed to direct again, it would almost have to be a step up from his debut. But the worst thing about it was that it gave us six of the most fatuous, odious, self-absorbed, and generally unlikable bro types ever created and then tried to gaslight viewers into sympathizing with them because of their bravery in standing up to an increasingly woke world they no longer understand. (In one, the guys consume powerful laxatives and then see who can go the longest hitting on women in a bar before the inevitable occurs.) Here was a film that opened with a sequence in which a character gets his testicles blown off with a paintball gun (the act that inspired the aforementioned estrangement) and proceeded to go downhill from there. All in all I give it 6.4 knee slaps to of 10.For those of you who blessedly missed the original “ Buddy Games” (2020), the directorial debut of actor Josh Duhamel, it told the tale of a group of six loathsome friends who reunite after a five-year estrangement to compete against each other in a series of stupid and often-disgusting contests they've been doing for years. Ps what was the deal with these awkward in-between moments interviewing guests and writers? That didn't work for me. Was good for some big laughs just got a little played out Once you're not a fan of a particular skit you're just going to ride it out because the same character is coming back the next episode. Don't get me wrong some characters are hilarious (personally a big fan of Liz and Armound) but other characters can be "eh" or not your cup of tee and I guess that's where the shows main flaw is. The main difference between this and other skit comedy shows is instead of keeping it vague and open to a broader promise of diversity because he makes more 'characters' every other skit revolves around one of the same characters. Nick Kroll is surprisingly funny and yes it took the success of his wildly popular Netflix show Big Mouth for me to even further investigate his comedic in devours, I'm glad I stubbled across this little hidden gem. This is one of the better skit shows post Chappelle Show. ![]()
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