The Interview (2014)
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Critic Consensus: Unfortunately overshadowed by controversy (and under-screened as a result), The Interview's screenplay offers middling laughs bolstered by its two likable leads.
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Cast
as Dave Skylark
as Aaron Rapaport
as Agent Lacey
as Kim Jong-un
as Sook
as Malcolm
as Jake
as Agent Botwin
as Officer Koh
as Officer Yu
as Cole
as Jackie
as Janet
as General Jong
as General Jong
as Two-Fingered Man
as Korean Girl
as Drone Pilot
as Guard #1
as Yo-Yo Boy
as Paparazzi
as Helicopter Pilot
as Helicopter Pilot
as South Korean Scientist
as Rebel Guard
as Korean AD
as Captain Tsung
as Tape Operator
as Video Switcher
as Video Switcher
as Tech Specialist
as News Anchor
as Cab Driver
as Presidential Guard
as Presidential Guard
as Korean Guard
as Chinese Bus Driver
as N.K. DMZ Soldier
as N.K. DMZ Soldier
as N.K. DMZ Soldier
as N.K. DMZ Soldier
as Doorman
as Jackie
as News Anchor
as Publicist
as Caroline
as Israeli Prime Minister
as Dancer
as Fake Korean Soldier
as North Korean Soldier
as Palestinian President
as Tech #2
as North Korean (as Daniel Chun)
as Studio Worker
as North Korean Soldier
as Actor
as Pundit
as Jim
as Party Goer
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Critic Reviews for The Interview
All Critics (138) | Top Critics (30) | Fresh (71) | Rotten (67)
The suffocating level of redundancy on display kneecaps any legitimate chance the film had at embracing social satire.
The Interview is marked by a true naiveté about international perception and what can be gotten away with in the name of "all in good fun."
What's wrong with The Interview is that it doesn't know how to be the singeing comedy it wants.
Te best satire provokes and even outrages, and Rogen, Franco and Goldberg certainly succeed on that score.
This is what all the fuss was about?
It's stupid. It's in bad taste. It impossible. I know all that. But Rogen's instinct to try anything for giggles and sticking it to dictatorial assholes is worth fighting for. Screw Kim if he can't take a joke.
Audience Reviews for The Interview
All on all a decent little comedy about a vainglorious celebrity hack getting the chance to interview a similarly vainglorious North Korean dictator. Filled with loads of little puns and jokes the main theme revolves around the human tendency to lie to get what they want, herein called honeypotting. This one is actually better than you might've been lead to believe.
Super Reviewer
The great scandal movie mocking North Korea and its leaders (but also media and the US quite a bit, too) is actually rather harmless. Sure, there is plenty of humor below the belt, as expected from the people involved and even a little bit of gore and violence in the end. But overall, no regimes will fall or wars will start over it. There are some genuinely funny parts, others are just silly and pointless. It's entertaining while missing out on hitting some really important points home.
Super Reviewer
What a bold move to poke the tiger and expect some sense of humor from a dictator - and, let's just face it, there was no way it wouldn't be controversial, even if it's just a funny comedy with an adorable bromantic chemistry between Rogen and Franco like in Pineapple Express.
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The Interview Quotes
| Dave Skylark: | Haters gonna hate ... and ain'ters gonna ain't. |
| Aaron Rapaport: | That is not an actual thing that people say. |
| Dave Skylark: | They hate us because they ain't us. |
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