{"id":5318,"date":"2018-04-23T06:21:05","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T13:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/?p=5318"},"modified":"2018-04-23T06:36:18","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T13:36:18","slug":"daily-dose-crowdfunded-comedy-impresses-at-us-box-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/?p=5318","title":{"rendered":"Daily Dose: Crowdfunded Comedy Impresses at US Box Office"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cSuper Troopers 2\u201d took in well north of $14 million this weekend.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Given the explosive Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign for the sequel to the 2002 Broken Lizard hit, no one should be surprised by the over-performance of \u201cSuper Troopers 2\u201d this weekend.<\/p>\n

The spotty comedy took the fourth spot on last weekend\u2019s US domestic box office list. \u201cSuper Troopers 2,\u201d which I gave a \u201cfix\u201d rating, made me laugh way more than twice. It follows a motley crew of good-natured knuckleheads as they become troopers again to police part of Vermont that has been annexed from Canada. The foolish narrative provided the Lizards a staging ground on which to run more than a few memorable sketches. But if they are to build on this success, their next film needs to follow the Monty Python model and give us something meatier in the story department.<\/p>\n

\"\"At the number three spot was \u201cI Feel Pretty.” The backlash against the Amy Schumer led comedy certainly had an impact as the film edged past the lower budgeted \u201cSuper Troopers 2.\u201d Schumer plays a woman who is injured and awakes with extraordinary confidence in her body image. Critics have been many with the movie charting a dismal 33 percent rotten rating on the critic survey site RottenTomatoes.<\/p>\n

While this rating is only slightly lower than \u201cSuper Troopers 2,\u201d the Broken Lizard film emerged largely unaffected by reviews. This is no doubt due to the tongue-in-cheek low brow laughs associated with the more sketch driven format. Also, the Lizards have a significant fanbase even after more than a decade since the release of the first film. By contrast, \u201cI Feel Pretty\u201d relies on a singular star, Schumer, and tries to weave a bit of social commentary in with laughs, which many critics found inconsistent and even a little tone deaf. Audiences appeared to agree.<\/p>\n

The other story of the weekend is the resurgence of the John Krasinski\/Emily Blunt science fiction horror film \u201cA Quiet Place.\u201d The sleek horror shocker clocking in at around 90 minutes, should continue to have significant legs around the world. The running time alone makes it an easy fit for theaters and viewers looking for entertainment that doesn\u2019t pressure bladders and provides great scares with a thoroughly coherent story. Repeat viewing has helped drive its performance.<\/p>\n

\"\"The big release of the upcoming weekend is, of course, \u201cAvengers: Infinity War.\u201d At a running time of 2 and a half hours, the film will dominate theaters as viewers will devote their evenings (and weekend) around this event experience. Pre-sales alone ensure that this will be a record-breaking weekend for Marvel and Disney. However, the \u201cAvengers\u201d films often struggle to make the team-up format entirely satisfying as it jam-packs the movie with a little of everything for every fan.<\/p>\n

Still, an \u201cAvengers\u201d movie is a trick of sorts in that they are often an opportunity to introduce new characters and over-arching universe themes. It is a platform for smaller stand-alone movies to come. And fans should certainly take heart, the Russo brothers are directing this one.<\/p>\n

The Russo\u2019s \u201cCaptain America: Civil War\u201d is a high point in the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe, and one of the finest examples of the super hero genre. Since they are also handling the second part of the \u201cInfinity War\u201d saga, due out next year, fans can take comfort that the ideas and story threads teased in this weekend\u2019s film will be consistently addressed in the second of this blockbuster two-hander.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Broken Lizard guys are all smiles after their film over-performed this weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[254,255,210,216,177,258,257,176,256,259,212],"class_list":["post-5318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-amy-schumer","tag-avengers","tag-box-office","tag-broken-lizard","tag-emily-blunt","tag-i-feel-pretty","tag-infinity-war","tag-john-krasinski","tag-marvel","tag-rottentomatoes","tag-super-troopers-2","no-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5318"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5324,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5318\/revisions\/5324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}