Dave Skylark and producer Aaron Rapoport run the celebrity tabloid show "Skylark Tonight." When they land an interview with a surprise fan, North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, they are recruited by the CIA to turn their trip to Pyongyang into an assassination mission.
If production of The Interview was what truly inspired the hack that brought Hollywood to its knees, well, there’s a degree of beauty to that. Rogen and Franco are two of America’s finer bumbling man-children, and if this unessential but agreeable movie really triggered an international response, this is life reflecting art in a major way.
Considering how its inflammatory ambition and scattershot execution put it closer to Spies Like Us than The Great Dictator on the political comedy spectrum, The Interview should ultimately stand as the boastfully juvenile lightning rod that modern American culture deserved — no butts about it.
Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg's controversial comedy proves hugely disappointing.
Funny and sharp enough to warrant the furore.
Sticking up for the controversial North Korea-baiting comedy is hard when it’s so unfunny.
Bad taste jokes and a goofy bromance follow in an uninspired, unfunny romp.
I laughed more than I expected, spurred on by the fact that in doing so I was exercising a basic democratic right. In these post-Charlie days, that seems more important than ever.
While The Interview has assured itself a place in history for the trouble it has caused, a sharper and funnier film would have met that trouble head on instead of being overtaken by it.
he problem for The Interview is that real life has better punchlines than Seth Rogan can confect.
Undeservedly controversial comedy lacks both laughs and nuance. The best bit they could come up with is Seth Rogen shoving a rocket up his bum.
In hindsight, it seems bizarre that a film so messy and mediocre has caused such huge reverberations.
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