With “The 4:30 Movie,” a cute coming-of-age tale combined with a rom-com movie, writer/director Kevin Smith (“Clerks III,” “Jay and Silent Reboot”) strives to evoke mildly pleasant memories and not much else. One might understand Sunny Day real estate as one that owes its recent projects squarely to his fans and hence there is a teasing joke about Clerks IV, if only to the background why even Millenials. “The 4:30 Movie” is very much for people who only want more of the same from Smith. In this case,that’s a superficially personal, but mostly conventional teen comedy about a resourceful film student and a few of her friends who are simply trying to win over her crush.
Self satisfying in the sense Light where such undermining feelings as depression and kyptonite was calmed in clerks the third and forgiven in “The 430 Movie” is a reassuring stroll for the viewers. Its now 1986 and Smith’s counterpart Brian David Austin Zajur and friends are active ladies who lunch towards a triple feature at New Jersey’s own Atlantic Cinemas, which today is the Smith’s Smodcastle Cinemas in Atlantic Heights. They are going to see a Steven Segal movie which is rated r and is based on the writing of a detective series called Bucklick, and Brian David wants Melody Siena Agudong to come along as well.
The very thought of suggesting taking in the company of a girl makes Brian David, loudmouth and sex crazed Burny Nicholas Cirillo and harmless geek Belly Reed Northrup to almost cease to be the reasonably well balanced their rather surprising continuity. Girl who can be taken along more phots than thirty, doesn’t put a stop on Brian David, seeks verbal confrontation and girl attention by running Brian David and dry humping with Burny, most of the time fantasizing about the picture business.
For Smith, that carefree setup is like a layup – the story is positioned in prejudiced culture, the culture of smart pampered children who win merely because they have loyal friends and a lot of self – esteem.
With regards to ‘The 4:30 Movie’, its proportion and scope are just at ease. As with most of Smith’s recent films, this one also begs the viewer to believe that rather than it being Johnny Depp’s enterprise, the film was directed by his closest friends and his family, including the daughter, Harley Quinn Smith and the cameos of well-known stars from the Smith stable like Rosario Dawson and Justin Long. The chemistry of the teenage supporting cast is equally endearing, almost artificial, that compensates a number of so-so jokes to some diehard fans of Smith.
All of this, including the ultimate fate of Atlantic Cinemas, would probably astonish Brian David and his peers who, over passionate and needless arguments, take for granted that they are quite experienced and therefore, very intelligent. Smith has not changed much, whose comedies usually only reward jaded moviegoers who understand how small the distant past is, not in years but from the eternal present. A comparison to this is how the Mets fared in 1986 or how one realizes the level of Brian David’s tastes is when he is enjoying Chaka Khan with friends or is totally surprised by all the ‘pre-movie trailers’ one, like a dedicated horror fan, just gaped at an (offensive) ad for ‘Sister Sugar Walls’, a thriller film about a killer nun who is a lesbian prostitute (Harley Quinn Smith). They don’t make them like that anymore, though if they do, it’s a disgrace to admit it.
There’s never really a suspense about how Brian David’s story is going to go and some of the interesting many facets of his early romance with his wife Melody are not as fantastic as Zajur and Agudong are together. But the readers of Smith’s essay have to realize that these two didn’t exactly make things easy for Smith. Then there was this squirrelly but never that funny Mike, the Ken Jeong’s character of a movie theater manager who is always spoiling for a fight. This Is probably some Crude who says that the funny people amongst “The 4:30 Movie” are older male dropouts who for some reason or the other do not care about whatever ideas Brian has. So they reminisce about ‘Rocky IV’ and professional wrestling and then vanish into Smith’s cheap snow globe recollections.
Smith’s latest film, as predictable as it gets, revolves around women and features the most cringe-worthy interactions of all – the women’s stock characters which are quite enjoyable only in the hands of seasoned and/or talented comediennes. There is a couple Smith has wooed here, but she can only stretch so much with such pliable material. And it is Smith’s gags which are generally lost in a terrible scattergun of stab anyone and anything around with a jigsaw, the entire bulk of it concentrated around his surrogate Brian David and some excessively intelligent and ever-so flirty women, Genesis Rodriguez’s John Boorman fan usher as well as Melody inclusion.
One may experience rather negative feelings after having to face yet another Kevin Smith’s comedy where one more arrogant loser is given a chance to find himself some day, including atleast this book has the decency to address Brian David’s well-documented aversion to women (‘The only area of subordination where your height is only how ignorant you are about girls’). In any case, it seems that you will either be able to forgive or hate “The 4:30 Movie” depending on whether you want to support the younger actors of the film. Somewhat against all logic and omit the usual promotional blurb they make for(fun) sales- “Would you really ever think today, this day would be a movie?” They would rather say something.[D] “The 4:30 Movie” is not particularly bad, you simply need a bit more patience than you expect for that rather insubstantial comeback.
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