From the beginning of the film, I saw that Jeff (Zach Galifanakis) and Karen (Ira Fischer) had a conversation in the car after they sent their children to the summer camp. I felt something was wrong with the drama, I recalled the screenwriter’s name: Michael LeSieur... PASS was too eye-catching. I recalled the director's name again: Greg Mottola... "Mottola"? I think of a bald-headed figure wearing glasses who likes to smile crookedly, and then I think of my dear Simon Peggy and his dear Nick Frost, the screenplay and starring movie "Paul ", I remembered the neurotic "Clear the Dark History" starring Jon Hamm, and finally I remembered the more nervous "Too bad" starring the young Jonah Hill and Michael Sierra. I felt that I had an epiphany, so I straightened my mind and continued to watch the movie. When I saw Jeff and Karen meet their glorious new neighbors, I had already guessed the next plot. However, it was completely-all-no-there-expected-expected-I will be in the next In an hour and a half, he laughed into a neurosis.
To be honest, I think most people who go to this movie will be misled by the movie's action comedy classification and title, so that they have wrong expectations. Hollywood has always been rich in action comedies and spy movies, or a combination of the two, but they either focus on action (such as "Smiths", "Red Flame Battlefield", and "Dangerous Spy"), or focus on comedies (such as "Ace Powers of the Dead, "Confused Detective," and "Date Night"), and the new work jointly launched by director Greg Mottola and screenwriter Michael Lesieux reconciles them so interestingly, they will be the main stage Set up in a residential community that can be seen everywhere. The perfect casting provides a great help. Okay, "Spy Next Door" does have action elements. It is certainly a comedy, and it does have something to do with spies. But, yes, for this film, the three main points of action, comedy, and spy cannot be placed on the same horizontal line. Because, it is actually a comedy movie with action and spy elements.
I think we can all agree that comedy films are often the most difficult to tune, because the most important point of laughter can resonate, depends entirely on the audience's mentality when watching the film and whether they can accept this form of humor. . However, at least based on my experience of watching movies, considering that the entire auditorium is filled with hysterical laughter from most of the audience from time to time, and a small part of the audience is always unable to suppress the snickering laughter, the reality of this film Achievements are clearly the opposite of the harsh evaluations given by those tall film review sites.
The story of the film really started after the arrival of the new members of this peaceful community, Tim (Jon Hamm) and Natalie (Gail Gadot). They looked sexy, stylish, and pleasing to the eye, and almost immediately became the dazzling stars of this community.
Of course, this pictorial model-like couple is actually a married husband and wife agent. They sneaked into the community where the employees of the IMB company, which has a weapon research and development partnership with the government, in order to gather intelligence. It is also natural, Jie The husband is working for the human resources department of the company. Because of the nature of Jeff’s work, he knows almost every employee in the company, including researchers with advanced security levels, and because the computer in his office is one of the few public equipment that is not restricted by external access, many employees come every day He drove here. However, precisely because of this, he became Tim and Natalie's primary subject of investigation.
As a decorator who had to sacrifice her career pursuit to take care of the children, Karen was depressed that she could only design urinals for neighbors, so when her husband and children were not at home, she devoted most of her energy They are all invested in the great cause of studying their neighbors and opening their minds. It was she who first noticed that something was wrong with the new celebrity couple. Her strong curiosity and desire to prove that she was right eventually prompted her to follow Natalie all the way to the fitting room of the mall, where she and her Wonder Women in sexy black lace underwear are confronting each other. This is definitely one of the highlights of the film. The two actresses contributed their most exquisite acting skills in the whole film. At the same time, it is both eye-catching and hilarious.
At the same time, Jeff and Tim established a wonderful friendship between men. This involves an absolutely illegal underground Chinese restaurant, as well as a rival drama full of burdens and proper control of the rhythm. There is no cheap deliberate funny here. The performances of the actors are quite outstanding, especially the contrast between the two male protagonists. The strong but wonderfully harmonious aura makes this rival drama that promotes the change and development of the relationship between the characters sincere and credible, and it is also this sincerity that makes the audience tighten their cheeks and sneer.
The most impressive thing is that, like other comedies, the film does not focus on the laughter produced by the interaction between characters and special situations, or earn gimmicks through dialogues with witty words, but a rare grounding atmosphere. , It cleverly cuts into the daily life of ordinary people, presents the various problems they face in marriage, family, neighborhood, and workplace in a witty rather than spoof way, as well as when a lot of energy is occupied by them. How to face new encounters, even a friendship outside the scope of regular communication.
In addition to the four outstanding protagonists, the performances of the supporting actors also have their own brilliance, especially the genius Patton Oswalt, who plays a villain with the code name of a typical spy movie villain. The role, his superb performance created one of the climax of the whole film.
Indeed, "The Mission Next Door" is not a high-profile comedy, and there is no surprise in the plot, and there is no maddening and cool design that is often found in other movies that use spy elements. It's Laughing fruit mainly comes from the friction and collision between a pair of ordinary, contented and happy people and a couple of task-oriented and calculating agents, and the superb performances of the protagonists undoubtedly add wonderful magic to it. . So, although this is usually a movie I would choose to ignore, I still added it to my list of recommendations this year. Perhaps it appeared at the right time, when people accepted a visual bombardment of summer and the burning of autumn files. Behind the brain, this kind of sincere and lovely down-to-earth comedy is far more effective than a decompression ball or torture aerobic exercise.
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