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Which would all be well and good, maybe, if Stuber was actually funny. ... of 5 stars 08/15/19 Full Review Gabriel movie is not going to win an oscar but it was a lot of fun to watch good funny ...
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- Michael Dowse
- R
- Dave Bautista
- Pro: Dave Bautista and Kumail Nanjiani Have Chemistry
- Con: Kumail Nanjiani and Natalie Morales Do Not Have Chemistry
- Pro: The Action Is Top Tier
- Con: The Comedy Is Hit and Miss
- Pro: Occasionally, The Jokes Are Bullseyes
- Con: It Has A Lot of Competition
- Pro: It Has Something to Say About Toxic Masculinity
- Con: It Doesn't Know How to Say It
- Pro: We Need "2Uber"
- Con: The World Isn't Ready For "2Uber"
When it comes to the wrestlers-turned-actors game, The Rock and John Cena have nothing on Dave Bautista. His role as Drax in Guardians of the Galaxy, his short role in Blade Runner 2049, and his appearance as a Bond baddie in Spectre(saving grace of a mediocre movie) are evidence enough of his acting prowess. Likewise, Kumail Nanjiani is the best t...
Stuberis an action-comedy with a surprisingly dense plot, so the romantic subplot does suffer. Essentially, poor Stu is being strung along by his BFF he slept with once, Becca (Betty Gilpin), and just wants to go home and get laid after she breaks up with her boyfriend, but Victor keeps dragging Stu around the city during his investigation. RELATED...
If a movie has an exploding tank of some kind of gas, it doesn't guarantee itself to be a quality film, but it does guarantee a quality moment. The moment that Stu throws a tank of propane out of the car during a chase, cinematic history is made. The tank doesn't explode; it slams into a henchman's face and pummels it into a bloody mess. And then i...
With the action being top-notch, the comedy is a bit sloppier. Thankfully the Stu-o of Victor and Stu have their chemistry, but the other characters in the film don't share the chemistry as often. On top of that, at times, the film's comedy can go to an "inside joke" level, which rarely, if ever, works in comedy. Essentially, a character might pers...
Comedy is subjective, but sometimes, jokes can be universally funny. One might say, the jokes are pretty 5-star when they go right. Some lines are absurdly random, yet hilarious. "Did I just see a d*** the size of Simon Birch?" will haunt one's mind once it enters. Having Stu attempt to help Victor in a fight by throwing a gun, only to have the ass...
In a world of films such as Lethal Weapon, The Nice Guys,21/22 Jumpstreet,Dumb And Dumber,The Emperor's New Groove,MIB, and countless others, buddy comedies have to work hard to stand out. Stuber might be a unique movie, but it runs the risk of being buried by the sands of time when so many others like it have disappeared. At least it will fare bet...
Stuberis somewhat woke, and with Kumail Nanjiani being a progressive Pakistani immigrant and Dave Bautista being a classic "Let's punch some Nazis" real-life hero, it's no wonder the film would try to have some sort of arc on toxic masculinity and police brutality. Victor's intense drive to be an alpha consistently gets the Stu-o in trouble, and St...
That being said, Stubersuffers from a bloated and messy script that tries to juggle a few too many things at once. And with a complex issue like toxic masculinity, a movie riddled with penis jokes isn't really the best playing field to tackle the issue. Or maybe it's the best one, as it's a testosterone-fueled rollercoaster, but at any rate, the ne...
As noted earlier, the movie market is getting bloated with Disney, and even though we've seen a million buddy comedies, at least it's an original story. Stuberends on a note that leaves it open for more movies, a franchise. Yes, we could one day get "2uber", maybe "Stub3r." A movie about being desensitized to violence while desensitizing its audien...
There are some beautiful things the world just isn't ready for. Many people would probably not care if Stubergot a sequel. They might find it Stu-pid instead of Stu-pendous. But whether the world is ready or not is ultimately irrelevant. There have been odder sequels before. Or sequels that took eons to come. American Psycho II. Dumb and Dumber-er....
- Rafael Sarmiento
Stuber: Directed by Michael Dowse. With Dave Bautista, Kumail Nanjiani, Mira Sorvino, Natalie Morales. A detective recruits his Uber driver into an unexpected night of adventure.
- (52K)
- Action, Comedy, Crime
- Michael Dowse
- 2019-07-12
Jul 12, 2019 · Stuber. The only thing worse than hot garbage is elaborately lukewarm mediocrity, and for too much of its running time, the new comedy “Stuber” is just that. Directed by Michael Dowse from a script by Tripper Clancy, “Stuber” has a generic action-comedy premise: tough cop is incapacitated and forced to entrust himself to a fish-out-of ...
Parents say (6 ): Kids say (6 ): Bautista and Nanjiani are likable enough together, and the movie has a few laughs, but overall it feels rushed and routine. It's difficult to care about the lazy plot or the characters' involvement in it. Stuber starts badly, with a violent fight/shoot-out scene that's shot in headache-inducing shaky-cam, and ...
- Michael Dowse
- Jeffrey M. Anderson
- Kumail Nanjiani, Dave Bautista, Karen Gillan
Jul 12, 2019 · Stuber is part of a breed of summer movies that I think of as “aggressively fine”: They’re not unwatchable, and you’ll laugh sometimes, but they’re also not very good, and there’s no ...
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Jul 9, 2019 · “Stuber” doesn’t exactly have the comedic horsepower of a film like “Superbad” or “Pineapple Express” (or even Nanjiani’s own “The Big Sick,” which is a more sedate experience ...
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