While we are coming off a big weekend that saw Hollywood finally deliver The Avengers: Age of Ultron to the big screen, it looks like we may be back to an uninspiring slate for the film world. There’s only one movie on the docket, offering a special ride along with Reese Witherspoon and Sofia Vergara.
Just remember, I'm not reviewing these movies, but rather predicting where they'll end up on the Tomatometer. Let's take a look at what This Rotten Week has to offer.
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Rotten Watch Prediction
There is a certain recognizable formula that constantly plays out within the buddy comedy genre. It’s common that the stories find two people who annoy each other to no end and couldn’t be more dissimilar - but as they spend time together they realize that their differences are equal parts hilarious and endearing. Slowly, through some circumstance, and just general happenstance, they become the best of friends and have insane adventures together. Sometimes this works, sometimes it doesn’t, and this week we’ll find out if it can be replicated for success in Anne Fletcher’s Hot Pursuit.
Check out another pair of opposites becoming friends in the trailer for the film below:
Hot Pursuit teams up Reese Witherspoon and Sophia Vergara as a cop and the wife of a druglord – and to be honest, this movie looks like trash. It’s a shame, because I do think both Witherspoon and Vergara are talents, but this film very much seems like something you do for the studio so the studio will let you do other, more challenging work. The jokes feel canned and recycled. It just seems like the whole production is below both of them.
Director Anne Fletcher has been down this road before. She’s directed a number of celebrity team-ups to diminishing returns. Flicks like The Guilt Trip (38%), The Proposal (44%) and 27 Dresses (41%) are three on her resume that leave a less-than-inspiring trail of "comedy" work. These movies, while having some names attached, are all completely forgettable; throwaways for otherwise talented actors and actresses. This latest seems like more of the same.
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We had a nice little Rotten Week win last weekend with Avengers: Age of Ultron (Predicted: 77% Actual: 75%). It was nearly a direct hit on the prediction, and adds another critically acclaimed piece to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The crushed at the box office and critics, on the whole, enjoyed it. The idea that summer blockbuster-type movies are also legit good flicks means we are at a special time. It would be very easy to hit saturation point with comic book flicks and the group of Avengers in particular. But that hasn’t happened yet, and I don’t suspect it comes around any time soon.
Next time around we do a little a cappella and Mad Max makes his return. It’s going to be a Rotten Week!
