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Lifelong friends Barb and Star embark on the adventure of a lifetime when they decide to leave their small Midwestern town for the first time - ever.Lifelong friends Barb and Star embark on the adventure of a lifetime when they decide to leave their small Midwestern town for the first time - ever.Lifelong friends Barb and Star embark on the adventure of a lifetime when they decide to leave their small Midwestern town for the first time - ever.
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This movie is complete non sense and I loved it so much.
It can be hard to find a place when making a comedy that is absurd but isn't just like stupid if that makes sense but this movie finds it.
At first I wasn't won over by one of the main plots and didn't understand why it was there, I thought the movie should have just been about the main characters trip but it proved me wrong and tied it all together perfectly.
The jokes are a mile a minute and yeah sometimes they are duds but it doesn't matter because there will be another one any minute that won't be and will really land.
I also think that even though this movie is completely illogical I think it really got it's characters. They were fleshed out and that's what made them funny. You knew them after watching it, they didn't just say stupid lines for the sake of it, you felt like that was actually what them characters were like.
I also loved its colours they were just so sweet and candy like. It looks so good and worked really well with the film
I think this movie was great and you should give it a watch.
It can be hard to find a place when making a comedy that is absurd but isn't just like stupid if that makes sense but this movie finds it.
At first I wasn't won over by one of the main plots and didn't understand why it was there, I thought the movie should have just been about the main characters trip but it proved me wrong and tied it all together perfectly.
The jokes are a mile a minute and yeah sometimes they are duds but it doesn't matter because there will be another one any minute that won't be and will really land.
I also think that even though this movie is completely illogical I think it really got it's characters. They were fleshed out and that's what made them funny. You knew them after watching it, they didn't just say stupid lines for the sake of it, you felt like that was actually what them characters were like.
I also loved its colours they were just so sweet and candy like. It looks so good and worked really well with the film
I think this movie was great and you should give it a watch.
Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar is a gleefully absurd comedy that's really fun even if the jokes don't always land. Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo are terrific with perfect chemistry. Jamie Dornan is excellent and Damon Wayans Jr. is consistently really funny. Josh Greenbaum's direction is really good, it's well filmed and extremely well paced. The soundtrack is also really good and the music by Christopher Lennertz and Dara Taylor is good.
Watched this with zero expectation oh boy we laughed so hard. Did NOT see that hilarious "death-defying" twist coming either. Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo are amazing not a dull moment fun and feel good start till the end. Almost for the first time forever I wish they develop a sequel to this :)
... and I absolutely LOVED it! I couldn't stop laughing! It was just what is needed with everything going on. Its fun, colorful, cheery and completely rediculous (in a good way). One of those movies you can watch again and again, good background while going things around the house. The music numbers are really well done and funny, the acting was great. It's like a toss up of those cheesy movies like Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion crossed with the even more rediculous ones like Airplane with a touch of Austin Powers type bad guys and a little bit of musical thrown in. Definitely worth a watch if you enjoy stuff like that.
Did you know
- TriviaThat's really Jamie Dornan singing, and it was his choice to tear his shirt off at the end of the song. He wasn't supposed to--on the commentary they mention the shirt wasn't designed as a tear-away--but he felt it was necessary.
- Crazy creditsThere's a short scene after the closing credits.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Late Night with Seth Meyers: Will Forte/Annie Mumolo (2021)
- SoundtracksGuilty
Written by Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb and Maurice Gibb
Performed by Barbra Streisand feat. Barry Gibb
Courtesy of Columbia Records
By arrangement with Sony Music Entertainment
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- $32,825
- Runtime1 hour 47 minutes
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- 2.39 : 1
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