FUNNY PEOPLE

Funny People
d. Judd Apatow / USA / 2009 / 146 mins
Viewed at: Lecture Theatre 1 @ UEA (Norwich, UK)

You know what? Funny People is too long (what other dramedy runs for almost two and a half hours!?), and it really loses its way by the time it reaches the second half of what is an already uneven narrative.

Having said that, I’m starting to realise that I have a tendency towards emphasising the negative aspects of many films (some would say I’m cynical, but that’s a different argument). Anyway, I suspect that these tendencies are beginning to belie just how much I actually enjoy most of the films I see. (It’s been a long time since I saw a film I really hated. Actually it isn’t, I saw something a week ago that I despised, but I’ll leave that for a future update, since I’m still playing catchup.)

Anyway, in the spirit of seeing Funny People as ‘glass half full’ kind of film, I thought I’d attempt to summarize the bits which I really did like, as opposed to those I didn’t.