I’ve often said that comedy is a hard genre for me to review. Comedies rely on its viewer’s different sense of humor; while one thing may be funny to one, it may not be funny to another. Usually I set my bar pretty low in reviewing a comedy (well, today’s comedies anyway) and I mainly judge them if it actually made me crack a chuckle or two. Well, if you saw the trailers for “The Watch”, you would know right away that the film isn’t going to be exactly a hit, … more
Star Rating: Last summer saw the release of Jon Favreau’s Cowboys & Aliens, a film that quite inexplicably found the right balance between a science fiction alien invasion thriller and a western, two disparate genres if ever there were any. Now we have The Watch, in which a hostile alien takeover has been paired with a raunchy buddy comedy. This time around, something went horribly wrong. The genres don’t mesh. Perhaps they could have in the … more