The Whole Delivery

When I first heard wind of James Franco and Seth Rogen doing a parody of "Bound 2," I did have hopes of just a good laugh. I thought they would just play the music in the background and Franco or Rogen wouldn't lip-rap the song. Unfortunately though, Franco had to lip-rap "nigga" right off the bat, as Kanye's first verse goes, and ruin the rest of an otherwise fun parody. Otherwise, you have to laugh, though honestly, it's more from the absurdity and unintentional comedian that Kanye can be in his songs when he isn't screaming all over the place like a fool or still trying to sing. The man will always have funny lyrics and why it's the best song on that crap of a "Yeezus" album. But Franco is too smart of a dude to know that he probably should have thought better to not even sing the first few lines of the song. It's just another moment of lack of common sense racially by someone of non-black prominence that could have bee...

Photo from the movie, via the NY Daily News Seth Rogen, i know you want to cash in from "Knocked Up" and "SuperBad", but please stop. You are over-saturating yourself, and this is the second movie in a row, after Pineapple Express, where your original and funny crude humor now just isn't that funny anymore. Not a surprise most feel "ZAck and Miri" isn't that good : I have nothing against the cheerfully crude nature of "Zack and Miri Make a Porno." Before Judd Apatow, before "South Park," even before the Farrelly brothers, it was Smith's "Clerks" that exposed the delirious potential of shock value. But without the wit, raunchiness tends to feel uncomfortably forced. And the moments when "Z&M" works are, almost without exception, the ones that are more sweet than shocking. All the rest, frankly, feel like Apatow Lite. But knowing Rogen, he is trying to cash in as much as possible. And he is headed on t...