They try to figure out a way out of Nick’s predicament but can’t so they decide they’d better rob a bank. So they want to hire a hit man only they have no money so they decide to rob a bank for the money but would rather someone else do the job so they kidnap Nick and strap a time bomb to his body so that he’ll do. The plot sounds like something dreamed up while smoking dope: Dwayne and Travis, who would have to get exceedingly ambitious to be called slackers, mean to get their hands on the lottery winnings of Dwayne’s ex-military dad ( Fred Ward) in order to open a brothel masquerading as a tanning salon. The other guys are criminal conspirators - or would like to think they are instead of the lowlife do-nothings and think-even-less they in fact are, Danny McBride’s Dwayne and Nick Swardson’s Travis. 1 is Eisenberg’s pizza delivery boy Nick - he must deliver in 30 minutes or less - who is no boy but rather a slacker so typical to such comedies, and Aziz Ansari’s Chet, a reformed slacker now grade school teacher who is nonetheless hapless. STORY: ’30 Minutes or Less’: 5 Things Seen and Heard on the Red Carpet Not only does the math not work, it actually works to increase the tedium since you get no relief by switching from one lethally stupid pair to another. Michael Diliberti’s screenplay (based on a story by him and Matthew Sullivan) revolves around the false premise that if one team of bumbling idiots is hilarious, as in Dumb and Dumber, then you double the fun with two teams.
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