'You're Not Funny..Comedy Is For Funny People'...

This is the main movie I've been waiting to see this summer. Everyone is a fan of the Apatow produced movies, and they're all established as comedic hits. However, as a big fan of Judd Apatow the director; needless to say I went in with high hopes...

I did the usual pre-research looking at reviews. I didn't doubt it would be good until I saw the review saying 'not funny', 'horrible movie, long, confusing', 'laughed at 2/100 jokes' stuff like that...

Honestly my mind is blown. It did not disappoint in any way for me, I'm aware of potential bias, but that's not the case. When Apatow directs, there's heart and substance. Knocked Up has heart and a realness. 40 Year-Old Virgin was more of a comedy but it also had heart in terms of empathizing with the character. Freaks and Geeks, Undeclared were two series with substance and potential.

The title Funny People and the casting must have threw people off. They were expecting an all-out comedy of funnymen, Sandler and Rogan headlining. This is not the case. Funny People is a drama, I guess that's where the disconnect is.

Adam Sandler is solid I must say. He shows that he can act and is not just over-the-top funny. Seth Rogan's character is hilarious in terms of being awkwardly real. He's just a normal modest guy with a lot of heart.

Basically, George is an established comedian and finds out he is terminally ill. By a little fate he meets Ira while reverting back to stand-up for self-fulfillment purposes. He eventually hires Ira as his assistant. From there the story progresses.

Both characters go through a lot of character development. Rogan's character Ira Wright becomes a more confident person as the movie progresses in his stand-up career. Also, Sandler's character George Simmons becomes compassionate and grateful for his success and wealth.

Sandler's main character, undergoes a near-death experience and it pushes a lot of buttons and evokes a lot of emotions.

The storyline is solid for the most part and extremely layered and active. If you do leave your seat you'll miss plot development, maybe that's what people didn't like also. (The only hole in plot for me is when Leslie Mann's character tries to hide Sandler's secret of being well to prevent Eric Bana from snapping? meh.)

It gets a +100 from me for casting The RZA as a minor role as Rogan's co-worker at 'Otto's' lol. It also stars Jonah Hill, Leslie Mann and Nero himself, Eric Bana.

I found the movie to be frggn hilarious, like all the jokes were on-point. If I had a quarter for every dick joke, oh man non-stop, lol. Don't get it twisted, they were funny jokes and as tasteful as dick-jokes can get.

The movie is sad in terms of getting let down by life. The moral mistakes you make in life are crucial and you can never get them back, you can only learn and grow from them.

Overall, it's a very real movie. I really enjoyed it. It was hilarious and at the same time had substance. I'm still big on 'Judd Apatow the Director' despite reviews by closed-minded movie-goers.

I'm out like people from their minds who thought FP was crap...