There has been a lot of debate around this film. The so-called DPRK sees it as act of war and threatens with retaliation. Then SONY canceled it - and got into even more trouble, as now it is a matter about Freedom of Speech. Yes, this movie should be shown, to make the point that Freedom of Speech will not give in for threats, even though it is an extremely bad movie.
It seems to be like Borat meets Dumb and Dumber. Every fart needs to be heard, no crapping is left unmentioned, every dick has to be presented. Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen are like kids in puberty, testing the limits of what still goes. And let it be said from the beginning: anything goes, more mentioning of poop and peep doesn't constitute a good, or transgressing movie.
It starts as a media satire: the people of the talk show Skylark Tonight create pseudo-news. This is maybe the best part of this concoction. It turns out that the dictator of North Korea is a big fan of this show, he even is prepared to give a staged interview, i.e. an interview according to the dictator's manuscript. The CIA thinks this could be a good chance to kill that dictator and they agree to that plan.
When they come to Pyongyang, the team of Skylark Tonight behaves themselves as American idiots. They realize that all they see is a big Potemkin scenery, but at the same time Skylark feels an affinity to the dictator. They both have father issues.
Well several slapstick situations occur and at the end it turns out that the propaganda officer is less than a fan of the dictator. Yes, the dictator shows that he is not a divine emanation, but a pathetic creep - and is replaced by the propaganda officer after the revolution.
This could be satirical, this could be poignant, it could even be vitriolic, but it is just plain embarrassing. Nothing, repeat: nothing is disturbing in this so-called satire. No unsettling facts about the probably most repressing political system in the world. no empathy for the more than 20 million North Koreans and their hardships, just some jotted remarks and that is all. But it is not enough - the suffering of the people in North Korea will go on after this movie. And The Interview does not contribute to higher awareness about the catastrophic human rights situation in that country.
It gets 0,1 of 10 stars.
It seems to be like Borat meets Dumb and Dumber. Every fart needs to be heard, no crapping is left unmentioned, every dick has to be presented. Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen are like kids in puberty, testing the limits of what still goes. And let it be said from the beginning: anything goes, more mentioning of poop and peep doesn't constitute a good, or transgressing movie.
It starts as a media satire: the people of the talk show Skylark Tonight create pseudo-news. This is maybe the best part of this concoction. It turns out that the dictator of North Korea is a big fan of this show, he even is prepared to give a staged interview, i.e. an interview according to the dictator's manuscript. The CIA thinks this could be a good chance to kill that dictator and they agree to that plan.
When they come to Pyongyang, the team of Skylark Tonight behaves themselves as American idiots. They realize that all they see is a big Potemkin scenery, but at the same time Skylark feels an affinity to the dictator. They both have father issues.
Well several slapstick situations occur and at the end it turns out that the propaganda officer is less than a fan of the dictator. Yes, the dictator shows that he is not a divine emanation, but a pathetic creep - and is replaced by the propaganda officer after the revolution.
This could be satirical, this could be poignant, it could even be vitriolic, but it is just plain embarrassing. Nothing, repeat: nothing is disturbing in this so-called satire. No unsettling facts about the probably most repressing political system in the world. no empathy for the more than 20 million North Koreans and their hardships, just some jotted remarks and that is all. But it is not enough - the suffering of the people in North Korea will go on after this movie. And The Interview does not contribute to higher awareness about the catastrophic human rights situation in that country.
It gets 0,1 of 10 stars.
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