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Jersey Girl (2004)

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5 Directors, 5 Achilles Heels
by SpoutBlog in SpoutBlog on spout.com

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"While watching Zack and Miri Make a Porno, it is possible to occasionally forget that you are watching a Kevin Smith movie. Mainly because he doesn’t show up in the film, a rare and appreciated move for the guy who has played “Silent Bob” in 6 out of the 8 theatrical releases he’s directed. Then there’s the cast that is involved, which makes Z&M seem like the offspring of Judd Apatow and John Waters. But there are a number of things that do make it clearly a Smith joint, such as the obligatory employment of Jason Mewes — in the role he was born to play, even moreso than “Jay” — and the potentially pitying use of Jeff Anderson, who may have been the only actor to agree to receiving that accidental Hot Carl. And then there’s the most recognizable element: Smith’s inability let the poop jokes go in order to concentrate on his characters, and the relationships between them. It’s the filmmaker’s Achilles heel, and it’s one of five we at SpoutBlog have noticed are holding back the esteem ... " [More]

Zack & Miri: A comedy with some ...
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"Kevin Smith has a right to be pretty bitter right now. For years, he's been blending raunch and romance with equal measure, to middling box office results. From his grungy little breakthrough, “Clerks,” in 1994, to the polished “Chasing Amy” to the not-as-bad-as-it's-rumored-to- be “Jersey Girl,” Smith has never shied from the messy sexual side of relationships in dialogue that some of the closest couples dare not discuss. Meanwhile, writer/director Judd Apatow snuck into the kingdom and stole the crown, basically covering the very same turf in films such as “The 40-Year-Old Virgin,” “Knocked Up” and “Forgetting Sarah Marshall.”

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Porno, Dungeon, Paris: 10 Toron ...
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"The 2008 edition of the Toronto International Film Festival begins today, and Kevin Kelly and I will be there for the next ten days reporting back. What follows is not exactly an iron-clad preview of our Toronto coverage––in addition to some of the films below, I’m definitely planning to see new works by Claire Denis, Agnes Varda, Jonathan Demme and Richard Linklater, and would of course recommend that anyone on the ground see some of my favorites from past festivals, including Medicine for Melancholy and A Christmas Tale. This is more of a list of predictions of what everyone else is going to be talking about, while I’m pushing my glasses up my nose and rushing to to the next screening of the a South Korean movie about drunken lonliness. Enjoy! If you have your own predictions for what will catch fire in Ontario, let us know in the comments. 1. Zach and Miri Make a Porno[More]

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10 Small Roles for Big Stars
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"We’re less than a week away from the release of Tropic Thunder, and as the reviews and puff pieces make their way onto the web, there’s one thing clearly uniting the media’s coverage: talk of Tom Cruise’s appearance in a small role as a Hollywood studio boss. Everyone seems to agree that he steals the show and that his performance — or the joke surrounding it — is one of the comedy’s major highlights, if not the actual best part. Of course, we can expect a good cameo from Cruise every now and then. He showed up for a bit part in Young Guns and played himself as playing “Austin Powers” in Austin Powers in Goldmember. But from what it sounds like, his role in Tropic Thunder is featured for longer than might qualify as a cameo. Some are regardless referring to the performance as an “extended cameo”, and in theory it certainly fits in with the huge crop of so-called “ironic cameos” that have become popular in movies and TV in the last ten years. Still, despite my not having yet seen th ... " [More]

Non-review review #3
by Zularian in Zularian Blog

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"I am feeling a bit grumpy at the moment so I am going to revisit the subject of my first post -- that of a director pilfering through their own material. There are a number of excellent examples of this but I am going to limit myself to two directors. The reason for this is that both of these men, Robert Rodriguez and Kevin Smith have had a very large impact on me. My current career path has been shaped largely by these directors which is why their transgressions pain me so. First, Mr. Smith. Once upon a time there was a directory who made a crappy (production-wise) little movie called Clerks. It is not a pretty movie nor is it an interesting-looking film. Clerks has very few merits except the fact that it is quite funny and original and it somehow manages to convey the joy and exuberence of it's creator. There is a quality to Clerks, a "I just wanted to make a movie" attitude that is infectious. This film feels to me to emboy the very spirit of Charles Foster Kane in Citizen Kane ... " [More]

Jersey Girl
by holster in holster Blog

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"OK, so it's not brilliant, but I'd heard it was truly awful and it isn't that either. To be honest I found myself quite liking it, there are some great moments and despite the cheese, the Kevins Smith dialogue shines through from time to time. Give it a go, be patient and open minded - watch it with your girlfriend and just don't expect Jay and Silent Bob to pop up...® " [More]

Jersey Girl
by MovieBabe in MovieBabe Blog

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"By Tricia Olszewski The expletives you may hear while watching Jersey Girl won’t be coming from its characters. Die-hard Kevin Smith fans—the mall rats, the clerks, the unapologetic fingercuffs—will likely sit through his latest, a meditation on the parent-child relationship, with stunned Beavis and Butt-head looks on their faces. And then start swearing. A lot. The film’s PG-13 rating should be a tipoff that it’s something of a departure, but this Very Special Episode with the ill-fated Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez is hardly even on the director’s map. All the speculation that Jersey Girl might be Gigli II—a theory that Smith himself tried to dispel by announcing loudly and proudly that J.Lo dies minutes into the movie—took everyone’s focus off the more troubling issue: that Silent Bob has gone sentimental. Affleck plays Ollie Trinke, a successful New York publicist whose life is going swimmingly when his new wife, Gertr ... " [More]

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