Funny People

Name: Funny People
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Released: July 31, 2009
Duration: 146 min
Rating: 60
Cast: Adam Sandler, Leslie Mann, Seth Rogen

2009

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Universal Pictures | Release Date: July 31, 2009 | R

Starring: Adam Sandler, Leslie Mann, Seth Rogen

Summary: Funny People is the story of a famous comedian who has a near-death experience. (Universal Pictures)

Director: Judd Apatow

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy

Rating: R

Runtime: 146 min

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Mick LaSalle

Funny People is a true brass ring effort, a reach for excellence that takes big risks. It's 146 minutes, with a story that's more European in feeling than American. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Perry Seibert

The result is a raucously funny and poignant love letter to standup comics. Read full review

David Denby

Apatow’s richest, most complicated movie yet--a summing up of his feelings about comedy and its relation to the rest of existence. Read full review

Michael Phillips

50 percent good and 50 percent close. Read full review

Dana Stevens

Apatow answers to no one. His worst enemy as a director is his unwillingness to linger in the dark places from which his comedy springs. Read full review

Michael Posner

Apatow wants to be taken seriously. Funny People is the attempt to raise his game a notch – and it fails. Read full review

Joe Morgenstern

The denizens of Judd Apatow’s Funny People have been pulled every which way to fit a misshapen concept, yet they remain painfully unfunny, and consistently off-putting. Read full review

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thelordoffilm

Aug 19, 2010

Funny People is a intelligent, funny adult film. Now a days the genre of comedy is now sex. We get a number of new movies every year trying to milk the success of Judd Apatow films. Some of them are good and I can name a few. However they need to rely on crude and vulgar actions to getFunny People is a intelligent, funny adult film. Now a days the genre of comedy is now sex. We get a number of new movies every year trying to milk the success of Judd Apatow films. Some of them are good and I can name a few. However they need to rely on crude and vulgar actions to get laughs. We get so many of those antics to the point of feeling disgust for the characters, but when the third act comes up we have to cheer for them it's dumb. Apatow's movies are different there fresh in orignatly and the crude and vulgar comedy is kept to a restrictive level. Thus giving us time to know the characters in between the big laughs. The movie starts with George Simmons played by Adam Sandler, he's a successful comedian and actor. He has stared in many films and is a prodigy to all standups. He lives alone and does mostly everything alone. One day he's sitting in a doctors office getting the news that he's been diagnosied with a rare form of cancer. His doctor firmily says it, he needs to try out expermental medicine. We then meet Ira played by Seth Rogen who's a up and coming comic trying to get out of the deli that he works at. One day George performs at a standclub that he has'nt been in three years. He notices Ira's performance and takes him under his wing as a assistant. They form a friendship and where George goes Ira goes. He trys to make ammends with his famliy and with the girl that got away, played by Leslie Mann who is married to someone else. So when George is thinking the worst his doctor tells him your getting better and tells him get a hold of your life again. You must think in a clinched kind of way he changes his personality and treat people better and go for the girl right? wrong, he exploits his condtion and tries to go for the girl. These are characters in a realistic plot. With problems and smart dialouge. Yes theirs crude and vulgar actions but it's done in a way that everyday people talk, with your friends, with your spouse. Judd Apatow did a very mature film proving you can mix vulgar and adaptable characters. This movie is based on everyday people with the only difference is that there Funny People.… Expand

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HubertW.

Aug 1, 2009

Apatow's best film! you can tell he really put his heart into this one and he hit a homerun. an epic and brilliant comedy with an all-star cast that nail their roles! it has depth not seen in his prior films but not at the cost of any comedy. you will laugh your ass off and be left withApatow's best film! you can tell he really put his heart into this one and he hit a homerun. an epic and brilliant comedy with an all-star cast that nail their roles! it has depth not seen in his prior films but not at the cost of any comedy. you will laugh your ass off and be left with something to ponder and reflect on. hangover was great, but there is no question this is the best comedy of the year...critics don't know sh.t about rating comedies. they never have...so many of them miss the boat entirely (case in point: Dumb and Dumber rated 39 on Metacritic)… Expand