My Favorite Movies

There are two types of people who have seen this movie. Those that love it and those that would rather cut part of their brain out so they won't have to remember ever watching it. The second type prefer Paul Blart as their go to for movies about mall cops, and I can assure you that the part of their brain they want gone was never there in the first place.

Observe and Report exists in a very grey area of comedy. It had enough big name stars (Seth Rogen, Anna Faris, Ray Liotta, Michael Pena, Patton Oswalt and Aziz Ansari to name a few) to make a big impact on the mainstream market, but somehow it never did. For one thing, it's too, literally, crazy of a concept.

IMBD's synopsis:  "Bi-polar mall security guard Ronnie Barnhardt is called into action to stop a flasher from turning shopper's paradise into his personal peep show. But when Barnhardt can't bring the culprit to justice, a surly police detective, is recruited to close the case."

If you've seen the movie then you know between the lines the whole story is about Ronnie's (Seth Rogen) struggle with his bi-polarism, his larger than life idea of himself, and his dream of becoming a cop. Where Paul Blart gets derailed with fat jokes, Report is a human story at its core and stays true to it.

The black humor and extreme ego will be familiar to fans of Kenny Powers and Eastbound and Down because Director Jody Hill wrote and directed both. Danny McBride makes a suiting appearance as a Mexican drug dealer, and Ben Best, co-creator of E&D and better known as Clegg to its fans, plays a police detective alongside Ray Liotta.

Take this scene for example, in my opinion one of the best thing Rogen has ever done, you'll see that Ronnie and Kenny could be interchangeable as characters and that Observe could just as easily have been a series, and Eastbound the movie.

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Yeah, it gets pretty dark as you can tell. That's probably why it didn't bring in a huge audience. One scene in particular, and I won't spoil it because it has such a huge comedic payoff, between Rogen and Faris after they go on a date was even almost too much for me.

Jody Hill accomplishes something despite all the constant depravity. A jolly good time. The editing room did miracles for this movie. With a soundtrack that Wes Anderson and Scorsese would be jealous of, and ambitious cuts that pay off, I couldn't help get caught up in all of it.

This part is just a quarter of one of the film's montages if you want to see what I mean.

If you have the stomach for something this strong, I assure it will go down like a sweet rage-filled muffin.

AND IF ANYBODY KNOWS WHO STOLE MY COPY OF THIS MOVIE TELL ME NOW OR THE SAME THING WILL HAPPEN TO YOU.