Don’t get me wrong, Anna Faris is an attractive woman I would love to take for a van ride some time. But it’s starting to seem like her agent might be functionally illiterate, or an actual porpoise. Faris has two prospective projects in the trades today. The first is TMI with Ryan Reynolds at Universal. OMG, U. optioned TMI? LOL!
Scripted by Kirsten “Kiwi” Smith and Marc Klein, the comic premise is that while honesty is the best policy for a relationship, [*RECORD SCRATCH*] “too much information” might not be the best thing. Andrew Panay (”Old Dogs”) will produce. [Woof.]
Believe it or not, that’s the better-sounding one.
Anna Faris is in negotiations to star as Robin Williams’ daughter in “Wedding Banned,” a romantic comedy for Touchstone. “Banned” revolves around a long-divorced couple who kidnap their daughter (Faris) on her wedding day to prevent her from making the same mistakes they did. The parents rekindle their relationship as they elude cops and the angry groom.
That one comes from the writers of Raising Helen and The Shaggy Dog, by the way. HERE, ANNA, READ THIS. IT’S BY THE GUY WHO WROTE THE MOVIE WHERE TIM ALLEN TURNS INTO A DOG. How does that guy still have a job? She must be insanely nice. I’m driving to her house right now.
(Picnic Bear is Yogi Bear’s cousin. He doesn’t steal picnic baskets, he just waits patiently for someone to show up with one)
Anna Faris, Justin Timberlake, and Dan Aykroyd have joined the cast of WB’s CGI/live action Yogi Bear movie, to be directed by Journey to the Center of The Earth director Eric Brevig.
Faris will play a nature documentarian who follows the antics of a bear in fictional Jellystone Park. Aykroyd will voice Yogi, and Timberlake could end up lending his pipes for Yogi’s constant companion, Boo Boo. [THR]
I always sort of liked Yogi Bear. I always sort of liked Anna Faris and Justin Timberlake and Dan Aykroyd too. So why am I not excited for this? Probably because when they CGI old cartoons and mix it with live action, it tends to look like this:
Does that appeal to anyone over the age of 10? No. Which means I’ll probably end up taking a date to this, but I won’t be happy about it.
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs was a children’s book from the seventies about a town called Chewandswallow where it rained food, written by someone who was probably really high. Sony made a movie out of it, and as you can see from the trailer below, they turned it into an origin story about how it came to be that this town rains meatballs. Pixar seems to be the only animation studio that can do kids’ movies without babytalking, so to speak, and since I don’t have any kids that I know of, I have hard time giving a crap about a movie like this. I’ll let FirstShowing handle it:
In comparison to Planet 51 [I'll have that trailer up later today -ed.], I actually want to see this one just a bit more. Something about all that food and the comedy, it just gets me. Though I’m worried that like Sony Animation’s last movie, Surf’s Up, it won’t be as good as the trailers make it seem.
Yes, you see, the food and the comedy, it really gets him. Fascinating, right?
Observe and Report, opening today from director Jody Hill, has been billed as “the Taxi Driver of mall cop movies.” (Whereas Paul Blart Mall Cop was more like the Big Momma’s House of mall cop movies). The question remains: is it any good? Relax, stupid, that’s what I’m gonna tell ya!
It might be an oversimplification to say that if you like Hill’s HBO series Eastbound and Down that you’ll like Observe and Report. The protagonists are similarly messed up and the tone is similar, but Danny McBride is a lot better at playing this kind of outrageous, over-the-top character. He and Will Ferrell might be the only two guys in Hollywood who’ve ever pulled it off. And that’s not a knock on Seth Rogen. In some ways it’s actually to his credit - he’s almost too believable to play a character so inconsistent.
Rogen plays a schlubby Travis Bickle - unstable, self-serious, loves power over others, lives with his mom, and is in love with the slutty pill-head makeup girl played by Anna Faris - a dead ringer for your sister. It’d probably be a waste to give you any more of the plot than that, except to say that the first half hour of this movie is truly atrocious. I like the f-word a lot more than most people, but that doesn’t make Seth Rogen and Aziz Ansari screaming “F*CK YOU!” “NO, F*CK YOU!” at each other for five minutes funny. It’s not. I’d rather get punched in the dick. After the slow start, the humor finally gets its panties off in the scene in which Rogen goes on a date with Faris, who single-handedly rescues the entire first half of the movie.
After the jump, I’ve got the red-band trailer for Observe and Report, a mall-cop comedy from Foot Fist Way director Jody Hill starring Seth Rogen and Anna Faris. It’s a real shame that Paul Blart came out earlier and stole their thunder, but not surprising considering it looks like in this one they at least bothered to write a script instead of just filming Kevin James’s pants falling down for two hours.
