Fast, cheap and out of control and put into glamorous Grand Rapids, Michigan, the director Ruben Fleischer "30 minutes or less" or even breaking the mark of 80 minutes excluding the end credits. The same happened with the Fleischer film debut, the hilarious "Zombieland," which contained visual and kinetic energy smarter than most action comedies that we see lately.
Fleischer and his editor, Alan Baumgarten, are complementary senses of humor, which can be cut as punctuation, as well as how to cut the matter.
Cross between the groups bromances flammable, the story turns to Nick, played by Jesse Eisenberg, who deliver pizzas for a living. His friend Chet, played by Aziz Ansari, who teaches elementary school and a twin sister (Dilshad Vadsaria), which has an obvious love of Nick's life.
On the other side of town, meanwhile, Dwayne wastrel sociopath (Danny McBride) and his henchman Travis (Nick Swardson) plans to kill Dwayne said rich dad (Fred Ward) for cash inheritance. They need a hostage to rob a bank (? Oh, whatever) to reach $ 100 000 to pay the hitman (Michael Pena dark fun). The pizza boy-man has a puppet so mature, and most of the "30 minutes or less" Nick, as against his more panicked, running with explosives strapped to his chest, while the criminals threaten the extermination and turn out on strip clubs or stores taco, dreaming about their future.
When the comedy works, it really works. The scene where congenital fearful and generally law-abiding Nick and Chet are gangsta and get into the 80's action films the spirit of their first foray into the bank robbery charges hard and constructed so smart. Fleischer locates an effective mix of jokes and violence here, otherwise, the mixture is less sure of himself. The sequences of the most discordant remember bits in "Pineapple Express", which confuses the simple brutality of comic realism.
"30 minutes or less" may be too shocking, the period for most people. It is loosely based on a fatal 2003 Erie, Pennsylvania, an incident involving a pizza deliveryman, a set of explosives and a group of bank robbers with whom he may or may not be accepted. The film has no interest in following the events of that dark really happened. Still: It's a comedy built on a gag rule-making.
The other negative point here has two names. "McBride" "Danny" and each time the story takes off Nick and Chet and lands back with Dwayne, and Travis is like an apartment
tires will flupp-flupp-flupp. Writer Michael Diliberti have talent and some of his lines are really funny f-word-free, as when Nick argues with Chet to be ready for a serious and adult response with Chet:? "You are an adult, you had
a Lunchables for lunch! "Undaunted Eisenberg accuracy works well with wide-eyed amazement Ansari life of crime, suddenly a leader.
The film ends up being just enough edge to be at its peak frustrating in its valleys. But the laughs are there.
