Hey folks... Sometimes there is a cosmic significance to the turn of planet Earth... Tonight, I was trying to convince Sister Satan, Lobo and Kublakhan to join Father Geek, RoRo and myself to see UNBREAKABLE (for their first time, mine and Father Geek's second time) when I hear the words, "No, we're staying home tonight to watch BIG MOMMA'S HOUSE on Video." Ya know.. recently scientists took an air sample from 15 kilometers up in the atmosphere and discovered what appears to be extraterrestrial microbes that have something... new about them. This is obviously the beginning of a real life INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHER's end of humanity as we know it on Planet Earth type of thing... Until I got this review.... And now I understand why they rented BIG MOMMA'S HOUSE... the cosmic roulette wheel was giving me a Yang to talk about prior to this Yin.... Now before you get into this, know that the reader liked it, thought it was quite funnny after the setup was over... Also this movie isn't due in theaters till April 30th, 2001... as the Earliest of the pre-Summer sleepers.. and from the sound of it... Martin might have another one. There are some spoilers... here ya go...
HowdyHowdyHowdy!
Just walked in the door after attending a screening for a flick called "What's The Worst That Could Happen" starring Martin Lawrence & Danny DeVito. Here's the basic storyline: Lawrence is a career thief who, while robbing the house of rich corporate mogul DeVito, winds up on the wrong end of Danny's gun. As the cops are cuffing Lawrence, DeVito notices the ring on Martin's finger and claims it to be his... just because he can.
Lawrence then proceeds to make DeVito's life a living hell and swears to continue to do so until he gets his ring back.
Quite frankly, once the whole first 1/2 hour is out of the way, this film is pretty damn funny. Usually when Martin ain't on the screen, tho. My boy is WAY off his game in this flick. Which is not to say this isn't something I could see him in... he was just... off. Like he's sleepwalking or something. I was part of the test audience at the end and when we were asked which character we liked the best, not one person brought up Martin.
You know who was REALLY funny in this? The Swedish guy from "Perfect Storm." (Checking IMDB for his name...) William Fichtner. He played an a-sexual police detective. Every time this guy was on screen, I couldn't stop laughing. Thumbs up for him!
DeVito was playing the same role he had in "Ruthless People" but that's OK 'cause he still plays it well. John Leguizamo was more irritating than usual and there was this skinny white guy trying to be all homey and he was getting on my nerves quick-time. This flick is carried by the secondary characters right now... Overall, a disappointment, but as this is a really early screening, maybe they'll take our word for it and cut out all that unbelievable love-interest crap in the first 1/2 hour and get down to what this is: a comedy. The middle truly is hysterical, tho. You'll never look at those people doing sign language in the lower corner of C-SPAN the same way again.
Hope this was of some interest.
- The Arscottimle
