Friendship: You heard right. Friendship is a masterpiece. Andrew DeYoung, Tim Robinson, and Paul Rudd join forces to deliver a brilliant masterpiece full of classic cringe humor that has earned them raucous laughter from their viewers.
Craig Waterman (Tim Robinson) seems to be your regular neighborhood kid’s father in Friendship. He sits at a boring desk two hundred hours a week, dresses without style, and dines at the local Spaghetti Freddy’s, considering it the highpoint of a week. He’s just another dad in a big inner city suburb.
When the picture starts we meet Craig with his spouse Tami (Kate Mara) in a counselor’s group with people diagnosed with cancer. While discussing her recovery, Tami verbally abuses her husband in a flirtatious manner, indicating that there is a disconnection between the two. And as the camera pans over to Craig’s perspective, you can see what makes cohabiting with this man difficult.
“Yes I have isolated myself in many ways. I consider myself a lone wolf,” Craig says about himself. Considering his previous behavior, Craig would be a good candidate for being a recluse. He just can’t seem to figure things out when it comes to other people. He tends to be well intentioned but is such an idiot.
To make things worse, he has a tendency to push boundaries too far. From overflowing his coffee cup to constantly binging, the guy knows no bounds. But overdoing it isn’t even the most peculiar thing about him. Whenever Craig fails — and let’s face it, he will most of the times — there is no grace about failing at all for Craig.
In Craig’s world, as adversities or indecorous situations arise, along comes a package that he did not order but did get delivered to him by the post office, and instead of keeping it he simply returns it to his neighbor. The package in turn allows Craig to meet Brian (and Paul Rudd), the new neighbor across the street who happens to be all kinds of interesting: a weatherman, a musician, and a fan of hand-rolled smoking. Brian becomes interested in dealing with Craig himself, thus ending Craig’s lone wolf saga.
Their friendship seems to become an obsession for Craig as the men become more close. However, during a guy’s night, his maniac side comes out and things become so awkward that he gets kicked out of Brian’s friend group. Craig cannot come to terms with this rejection and so he resorts to measures that are mad and force him back into the life of his former best friend. Before long, Craig’s attempts to restore the relationship blows up in his face and he begins to threaten every aspect of his life in retreating to the remnants of what is left of that bond.
Robinson’s brand of comedy is not for everyone, but for those who get it, there is nothing more exciting than this s#!t. It’s a lot like when hardcore fans boost the popularity of something such as manga, Twin Peaks, or vinyl records to a whole new level. Sometimes friendships might feel like I Think You Should Leave the Movie. So his beloved ICTYSL is not getting spun into a new dimension; rather, it is getting honed in for a larger audience.
You can be sure to expect Robinson’s craziness. The tantrums, the stuttering, the random words that come out when they shouldn’t, and the characters being middle-aged toddlers, it’s all brilliant. It’s hard to explain but seeing Robinson in real life doing his work is just pure brilliance. Where the theater goes black and all the attention is on Robinson – that’s when the real fun begins.
Robinson’s face is a modern day gift to cinema. It seems that it has been ages since Jim Carrey, a fellow comic, who was able to strain each of his facial muscles to such excess drama. He is truly a master of comical set up, with each body part moving in perfect synchrony and creativity.
With the outlandish personalities and absurdity of situations, the movie is still able to draw attention to the more serious topics. It examines how loneliness is on the rise nowadays, why men are so fragile in their ego, and describes the agony of social outcasts. However absurd the film gets, there is a lot to understand in respect to the forces that made Craig Waterman react in an explosive manner with social encounters.
On the whole Friendship, it is a brilliant and humourous comedy which deals with individuals’ struggles to fit in. It pays attention to an important topic – finding a person to connect with. All the more reason to watch this film is the breathtaking performance of lead who stands out as a true star of comedic movies.
Friendships, in addition, does not shy away from addressing social issues through comedy. Friendships is Mos Gassi’s best work yet and further solidifies ITYSL brand. Truly a classic that will generate a horde of memes.
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