The Guilt Trip
Rating: 1.5/4
This Film opens up up with Barbra Streisand in her Bed with a bunch of M&M wrappers (product placement alert!), then finds an M&M under her, and then eats it. That mere fifteen seconds can pretty much sum up the kind of bland humor that "The Guilt Trip" has to offer us. Now according to Screenwriter, Dan Fogelman ("Crazy, Stupid, Love."), this Film is based off of his own experience of a road trip that he and his Mother had when he was younger. Now I seriously doubt that him and his Mother did dumb, utterly bland things like eat a something ton Steak, accidentally drive into a stripper Club, and invent a spray out of Coconuts and (I think) Soy Sauce. That kind of stuff only happens in cartoons or in an episode of "How I met your Mother" or "The Big Bang Theory". But, hey, I may never know if this is TRULY based off of Screenwriter Dan Fogleman's life. More or less. God, "Larry Crowne" back in 2011 wasn't as bland as "The Guilt Trip" is because while stars Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts where both AT LEAST having fun and having a good time making that Film, Seth Rogen and Barbra Streisand just look very tired and very bored (how I felt throughout this whole Film) doing this. I think Seth Rogen gives one of the worst performances of his career in this. Every scene that you see him in he just looks so tired and just not caring about what is going on all around him. What's worse is that Screenwriter, Dan Fogelman, writes him so terribly and bland that when you watch him on screen, you just kind of cringe in your Seat and just feel kind of bad for the poor Guy. His performance in "Green Hornet" is so much better than this! I mean, seriously! Barbra Streisand in this was just the absolute worse because, again, I don't know if this is really based off of Screenwriter Dan Fogelman's real Mother, but, I'm sorry, Streisand was just so, so unpleasant on just flat-out bizarre that I was just cringing in my Seat so much watching this that I thought I was just going to have a panic attack. Streisand pretty much plays one of the worst Mother stereotypes in Film history. And, like Rogen, she's just written so poorly that you just feel so, so, so sorry for her. Hell, I wonder if Fogelman is aware that Mother's DO NOT AT ALL act like this. I mean, I now that it's a Tongue-in-cheek performance, but it's so terribly written and so bizarrely acted that when you watch her in this Film you not only roll your eyes and groan, but it just makes you kind of angry at the same time. Even take it from the woman who won Best Actress more than forty years ago for the Film "Funny Girl" (along with late Actress Katherine Hepburn for "The Lion in Winter"). What makes this Film even worse then it already is, is that Seth Rogen and Barbra Streisand were both the executive Producers of this Film. So these two actually said "OK" to Fogelman's utterly bland, also unfunny, Script. That's really to bad because thanks to him and Seth Rogen and Barbra Streisand, they made one of the blandest, most unpleasant comedies of 2012. Seriously, "The Watch" is "Some like it Hot" compared to "The Guilt Trip". Oh, yeah, it's THAT bad.
Rating: 1.5/4
This Film opens up up with Barbra Streisand in her Bed with a bunch of M&M wrappers (product placement alert!), then finds an M&M under her, and then eats it. That mere fifteen seconds can pretty much sum up the kind of bland humor that "The Guilt Trip" has to offer us. Now according to Screenwriter, Dan Fogelman ("Crazy, Stupid, Love."), this Film is based off of his own experience of a road trip that he and his Mother had when he was younger. Now I seriously doubt that him and his Mother did dumb, utterly bland things like eat a something ton Steak, accidentally drive into a stripper Club, and invent a spray out of Coconuts and (I think) Soy Sauce. That kind of stuff only happens in cartoons or in an episode of "How I met your Mother" or "The Big Bang Theory". But, hey, I may never know if this is TRULY based off of Screenwriter Dan Fogleman's life. More or less. God, "Larry Crowne" back in 2011 wasn't as bland as "The Guilt Trip" is because while stars Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts where both AT LEAST having fun and having a good time making that Film, Seth Rogen and Barbra Streisand just look very tired and very bored (how I felt throughout this whole Film) doing this. I think Seth Rogen gives one of the worst performances of his career in this. Every scene that you see him in he just looks so tired and just not caring about what is going on all around him. What's worse is that Screenwriter, Dan Fogelman, writes him so terribly and bland that when you watch him on screen, you just kind of cringe in your Seat and just feel kind of bad for the poor Guy. His performance in "Green Hornet" is so much better than this! I mean, seriously! Barbra Streisand in this was just the absolute worse because, again, I don't know if this is really based off of Screenwriter Dan Fogelman's real Mother, but, I'm sorry, Streisand was just so, so unpleasant on just flat-out bizarre that I was just cringing in my Seat so much watching this that I thought I was just going to have a panic attack. Streisand pretty much plays one of the worst Mother stereotypes in Film history. And, like Rogen, she's just written so poorly that you just feel so, so, so sorry for her. Hell, I wonder if Fogelman is aware that Mother's DO NOT AT ALL act like this. I mean, I now that it's a Tongue-in-cheek performance, but it's so terribly written and so bizarrely acted that when you watch her in this Film you not only roll your eyes and groan, but it just makes you kind of angry at the same time. Even take it from the woman who won Best Actress more than forty years ago for the Film "Funny Girl" (along with late Actress Katherine Hepburn for "The Lion in Winter"). What makes this Film even worse then it already is, is that Seth Rogen and Barbra Streisand were both the executive Producers of this Film. So these two actually said "OK" to Fogelman's utterly bland, also unfunny, Script. That's really to bad because thanks to him and Seth Rogen and Barbra Streisand, they made one of the blandest, most unpleasant comedies of 2012. Seriously, "The Watch" is "Some like it Hot" compared to "The Guilt Trip". Oh, yeah, it's THAT bad.