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Friendship
FRIENDSHIP
US, 2025, 100 minutes, Colour.
Tim Robinson, Paul Rudd, Kate Mara, Jack Dylan Grazer.
Directed by Andrew DeYoung.
To be fair to this film, which this reviewer did not enjoy, hero to opposite opinions, the former favourable opinion being that of many American audiences.
Friendship is an absolute gem of a movie. The film is laugh out loud funny during its entire runtime. Tim Robinson and Paul Rudd are both hilarious and everyone else in the ensemble is very funny as well. The movie balances physical humor, funny situations, and well written jokes very well. The movie has some great set up and pay off jokes. Andrew DeYoung wrote and directed this movie and he did a great job in both of those aspects. The film is also shot very well, especially for a comedy, the cinematography here is fantastic. The movie is also very well edited and uses typical comedic editing tropes usually found in older movies or cartoons to full effect in this movie. I highly recommend this one if you like comedies.
willphelan, Apr 25, 2025
I left the theater feeling as if I needed a deep cleanse. The scenes supposedly meant to be funny were not. Instead, they created a disturbing sense of voyeurism, as the viewer is forced to watch as an emotionally handicapped person embarrasses and debases himself and over again, in several ridiculous, often violent ways, causing harm to himself and others in his desperation to be included in his neighbor's circle of friends. His behavior was unpleasant and creepy, but, strangely, there was no attempt by anyone, wife or neighbor, to encourage him to seek help. There is no redeeming value in this depiction of male relationships.
burnleybainbridge, Jun 12, 2025
While many audiences have found the film very funny, this was not this reviewer’s sense of humour. The central character, played by Tim Robinson (many television comic appearances and Saturday Night Live), is not one to identify with. Much of the action seem to be quite absurd, not in the comic absurd mode but very much absurd absurd. And a lot of profanity and swearing. The drama was focusing on male friendship, male needs, male inadequacies, male stupidities – and, even with Paul Rudd’s final wink, the future is still seems very, very uncertain.
