James Proclaims!

Anyone wanting to make a compelling case for the theory that actors are little more than talking props, need look no further than 2016’s ‘Why Him?’.

Neither Bryan Cranston nor James Franco are strangers to award nominations for their acting, yet they both flail around in this abomination of a comedy trying in vain to provide a decent performance from a script which offers very little in the way of a coherent narrative.

Or any actual comedy.

Score for Christmasishness

Given that I started this ridiculous annual countdown in 2017, it’s amazing I hadn’t come across this movie before now. It’s not a good movie but it is very much set at Christmas. Insofar as the premise of the movie works at all (and it mostly doesn’t) it could be set at a different time of year, but Christmas does seem quite a fitting context. There is also a scene involving a Christmas tree, which seems to mainly have been included to make the audience laugh, and although it is spectacularly unfunny, it does further enhance the Christmas credentials of the movie. I can’t imagine I’d ever watch this again, but if I did, it would be at Christmas time. Preferably after consuming a lot of alcohol.