![]() In my frequent role as “laugh accountant” for mainstream comedies, I’d estimate two-thirds of it works, and when it’s good it’s sooooo good - good enough to make you want to see Jordan Peele and Keegan-Michael Key and director Peter Atencio and co-writer Alex Rubens do it again and go farther out. The upshot is a business littered with the bones of cult comics who tried to make mainstream movies and lost their distinctive pulse. You need a special kind of pacing for comedy like that - the kind that gives studios the heebie-jeebies, which get passed on to tyro filmmakers. The Key and Peele movie Keanu poses a question for brainy cult figures who want to make slapstick action comedies for the multiplex: Do they have the courage of their deadpan? The parodies that make up TV’s Key and Peele are outlandish, but they’re played more or less straight-faced, and the seemingly meandering conversations that break them up are buoyed by the stars’ deliciously tricky rhythms.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |