Saturday, January 16, 2010

FUNNY PEOPLE


FUNNY PEOPLE: NOT ALL THAT FUNNY FOR AN APATOW FILM

Yes, there is the trademark crude humor, but much less pot smoking in this almost dramatic film by Judd Apatow. We meet George Simmons (Adam Sandler) a comedian very much like Sandler who has had comic success in the movies and the comedy circuit. George learns he is sick and has to undergo experimental therapy to try to reverse the condition. With his concerns and faced with his mortality, he meets and then hires Ira (Seth Rogen) a struggling comic desperate for a chance to make it.