Movie Review - The Wrong Missy

Director: Tyler Spindel
Genre: Comedy
Runtime: 89 minutes
Year: 2020
Starring: David Spade, Lauren Lapkus, Nick Swardson, Rob Schneider, Molly Sims, Geoff Pierson, Jackie Sandler, Sarah Chalke, Jorge Garcia

Description: Tim (David Spade) thinks he’s invited the woman of his dreams on a work retreat to Hawaii, realizing too late he mistakenly texted someone from a nightmare blind date.

Review: Happy Madison Productions, Adam Sandler’s production company, pooped out a new film. And this is hardly a good sign (also since I used the word ‘pooped’). This new comedy with David Spade is no exception.
Tim Morris has a crazy blind date with Melissa, also known as Missy. She almost causes a fight, pulls out a knife on her first date and declares his love for him already. Because of this terrible date, Tim decides to stop dating for a while. But then he meets another Melissa at the airport, who appears to be his soulmate. Tim doesn’t think one second and asks her to a work retreat in Hawaii with him. But it all turns into a disaster when he invites the wrong Melissa and accidentally has to take Missy from the blind date from hell to Hawaii with him.
With a complete lack of humor, this so-called comedy unfolds on the island. The screenplay relies heavily on juvenile sex jokes and unnecessary slapstick. Missy is a terrible character, with no substance whatsoever and her drunk adventures get boring and old very quickly. And after a half hour or so, you start to get annoyed. It’s hard to find any redeeming qualities in her character and the sudden opinion switch Tim makes about her is just illogical. Because the other Melissa is clearly the better woman for him in this story. Sidekicks Rob Schneider and Nick Swardson try hard to be funny, but never are. Since writing humoristic dialogue seems to be a difficult task. The film is just one cringeworthy moment after another.
Did people actually have fun making this film? David Spade even seems uninterested and it looks like he really didn’t want to be in this movie. Everything lacks inspiration: the direction, the script, the actors, they simply miss a soul.
This film is terrible and make 89 minutes feel like forever.

Rating: 1 / 5

100 Movie Challenge 2017 - # 33: Mother's Day

Director: Garry Marshall
Genre: Drama/ Comedy
Runtime: 118 minutes
Year: 2016
Starring: Jennifer Aniston, Kate Hudson, Jason Sudeikis, Julia Roberts, Britt Robertson, Timothy Olyphant, Shay Mitchell, Sarah Chalke, Jon Lovitz, Hector Elizondo, Larry Miller, Jack Whitehall

Description: Three generations come together in the week leading up to Mother's Day.

Review: Mother’s Day is the day that we celebrate all the great mothers on the planet. They deserved their own film, but this is not really the tribute I was hoping for.
We follow several stories revolving around mothers a week before Mother’s Day. Jesse has to solve a fight with her mother, but also kept it a secret that she married an Indian man and together they have a son. Her sister also hides something, the fact that she is gay. Kristen is adopted and wants to meet her biological mom: career lady Miranda. Sandy has to share mother’s day with her ex-husband’s new wife, who is much younger than her. And Bradley and his daughters are still struggling after their wife/ mother’s death.
We had “New Year’s Eve” and “Valentine’s Day”, which weren’t all that great to begin with. “Mother’s Day” isn’t either. I liked Jennifer Aniston, but I always like her. But the rest of the cast is a bit bland. And that story of Jess was just oo ridiculous. She and her sister kept such a big secret, because their parents are pretty racist and not very open minded. And everything is forgiven and forgotten in literally one second. Not believable at all.
I don’t think “Mother’s Day” is film that would make a lot of mothers happy. It’s hardly funny, super cliché and predictable. Out of all the assemble films with multiple storylines, that eventually cross paths, there is only one film in this genre that wins. And it’s not by Garry Marshall (it’s “Love Actually”, in case you were wondering). So if you want to watch a film with your mom on mother’s day, don’t watch this.

Rating: 2/ 5