Directed by:
Danny DeVitoScreenplay:
Larry DoyleCinematography:
Anastas N. MichosComposer:
David NewmanCast:
Ben Stiller, Drew Barrymore, Eileen Essell, Swoosie Kurtz, Robert Wisdom, Michelle Krusiec, John Hamburg, Maya Rudolph, James Remar, Wallace Shawn (more)VOD (1)
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In director Danny DeVito's darkly funny tale, Ben Stiller and wife Drew Barrymore move out of their cramped Manhattan apartment after buying the "perfect" duplex in Brooklyn. The fly in the ointment is elderly tenant Eileen Essel, who lives in the rent-controlled upstairs apartment and disrupts the couple's lives, blaring her TV late at night, sending them on errands, and driving them to plot her demise. (official distributor synopsis)
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A would-be black comedy with hackneyed, often predictable and only occasionally funny jokes. Danny DeVito’s usual black humour is absent, replaced by the cheap, shitty kind.
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In my opinion, DeVito's specific and far from digestible humour is the only thing that pulls this film out of the grey of mediocrity. The whole story is one massive cliché and the behaviour of the sweet grandmother is utterly absurd, but the presence of a director of undeniable qualities is nevertheless noticeable and all the humour, especially its black side, is first of all amusing enough, and only then a bit sick and perverse. Moreover, if you successfully push aside thinking and logic, which is necessary in these comedies, you can enjoy 80 minutes of easygoing American entertainment with a fairly effective twist that definitely doesn't deserve to be thrown into the garbage.
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I really didn't expect something so stupid from a comedy with Ben Stiller. Unfunny situations alternate with unfunny disgusting situations, and there are very few moments to laugh or smile.
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Everybody has a different sense of humor... For me, the filmmaker got it right! Slightly sarcastic humor and a bit of situations that happen "as if on purpose"...that lady truly is insane!!! I want more movies like this!
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