Average Rating: 6.4/10
Reviews Counted: 221
Fresh: 151 | Rotten: 70
Funny People features the requisite humor, as well as considerable emotional depth, resulting in Judd Apatow's most mature film to date.
Average Rating: 6.2/10
Critic Reviews: 44
Fresh: 23 | Rotten: 21
Funny People features the requisite humor, as well as considerable emotional depth, resulting in Judd Apatow's most mature film to date.
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Judd Apatow casts his former real-life roommate Adam Sandler as George Simmons, a comic superstar who learns in the movie's opening scene that he suffers from a rare blood disorder that will likely kill him within a year. This news gives him the impulse to go back out and work on his standup, something he hasn't done in years thanks to the massive success of his movie career. At a club, he meets struggling standup Ira Wright (Seth Rogen), takes a shine to him, and hires the young man both to
Jul 31, 2009 Wide
Nov 24, 2009
$51.8M
Universal Pictures
All Critics (221) | Top Critics (44) | Fresh (155) | Rotten (72) | DVD (9)
Funny People is funny, moving, dramatic, and alternately hilarious. It's a bit like a stand-up dramedy.
The good parts of this movie are often wonderful, but Apatow never finds the rhythm to keep it going. It lurches from inspiration to inspiration, but always manages to muddy its feet in mediocrity in between, as it drags on toward the two-and-a-half-hour
Judd Apatow (Knocked Up, The 40-Year-Old Virgin) takes some interesting chances in this messy but engaging comedy, which suggests he may yet mature (no, seriously) into a filmmaker of substance.
It walks a perfectly fine line between being funny and tragic.
Apatow has always found a balance of heart and humor in his best films, and Funny People is no exception.
The film comes dangerously close to stalling, however, once George and Ira visit George's ex, stuck in an untrustworthy marriage. By the time Ira implores 'Can we just go?' you feel the same way.
What exacerbates the ego-driven piece is the not-so-obvious multiple cameos of real-life celebrities. It comes across as Apatow bragging about how many famous people he knows.
For all its qualities Funny People never quite comes together. It can't quite decide who it wants to be about, whether it wants to be a comedy or a drama and in trying to be all things at once it never quite hits its full potential.
Apatow draws on his own experience to explore behavioral nuances of people that make us laugh, and it's no secret that being funny is not the same as being happy.
Funny People may be deeply flawed, but at least it has an accurate title.
Es al mismo tiempo la película más interesante de Apatow y también la más irregular. Ambiciosa, agridulce, por momentos brillante, demasiado larga.
... a character drama in the guise of a show-biz comedy.
If this movie were to be believed, I would conclude that the last people I'd ever want to hang out with are comedians.
Stand-up saga has a foul mouth but brains and heart, too.
Proof positive that when bad things happen to funny people, they might not be all that funny anymore.
Not exactly a movie about dying of laughter but close to it, Apatow's pot luck mock morbid meditation on mortality, punchlines and male anatomy jokes, is strangely as much about the cutting off of life as castration anxiety issues.
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It's interesting stuff, I feel myself wanting to like it more than I did. Judd Apatow has a lot to say, he just hasn't mastered the tools to say it well.
The film is also an admiring portrait of the artist as Californian solipsist -- unburdened by personal ties or even the need to seem intelligent, free to follow his own random, petty, moment-by-moment train of thought.
Funny People has some very funny moments but don't expect a joke fest. And don't expect a tight film either. At two and a half hours, it is not one but two films... and at least one of them shouldn't have been made.
It's a good deal more interesting than your average mainstream comedy.
While you believe a lot of what happens in the first part of the film, credibility lessens in the second.
Despite its flaws, this film has a beguiling candour and reflectiveness which is new for Apatow and Sandler.
I was very much looking forward to seeing Funny People. When I did, I was very disappointed. The film though has some decent laughs, but unfortunately doesn't what it wants to be, and goes on longer than it needs to. The film had a few good performances, and at times was funny; unfortunately the film was too long and
November 26, 2011
Super Reviewer
Despite the title, Funny People isn't laugh out loud funny. It's more like a smile inducing drama. A good little drama about life, love and fame. In the same genre as Terms of Endearment...but not as good.
July 30, 2009Super Reviewer
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