Will and John are “Step Brothers”

In the long, popular line of Will Ferrell/John C. Reilly comedies we now have another: Step Brothers, in which the comic duo plays unemployed losers who live with their mother and father, respectively. When the two parents meet up and marry, Ferrell and Reilly must live together as brothers.

Will FerrellNaturally, this makes for an explosive situation that tears Mom and Dad apart. Ferrell and Reilly must band together to make sure that true love prevails!

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All Aboard the Pineapple Express

Isn’t James Franco weird?

The Pineapple ExpressI don’t mean weird like the guy who accosts women at the bus stop while holding up his pants with one hand, I mean weird like…eccentric. If you’ve seen Spider-Man 3 (don’t worry, you will heal) recall the pie scene. The “sooo good” scene. If you haven’t, just trust me, he’s weird.

And now, finally, he has a vehicle for his burgeoning insanity. The Pineapple Express, Judd Apatow’s newest project, features Franco and Seth Rogen (of course) as two stoners on the run from a drug lord. A rather amusing red band trailer has been leaked, featuring the kind of stoner humor that even “’straight folks,’ or ‘losers,’”, as Hyde from That ’70s Show would say, can appreciate.

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Will Ferrell in Land of the Lost–Somewhere, Kevin Smith is Weeping….

Land of the Lost!  Cheesy Saturday morning TV comes back to haunt us!Somewhere, Kevin Smith is sobbing. No, no one took his lunch money, they just took an opportunity from him that he probably would have cut off his own…well…something important to direct. What am I talking about? Why, the Land of the Lost remake.

Marshall, Will and Holly….

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The Hammer Will Fall

Some people, no matter how talented, just never win that widespread appeal that makes them stars. There’s quite a career to be made, even in offensive shock-jockery - as Howard Stern has proven many times over. But just being a genuinely funny regular guy isn’t enough, apparently.

The Hammer - Adam Carolla and Heather JurgensenThough Adam Carolla was probably most famous for his work on the Loveline TV show and later The Man Show, his greatest comedy existed between the hours of ten and midnight as he dealt out his own particular brand of advice to thousands of troubled teenagers on the radio.

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This is madness.

“Can we have a law that, in the future, FILMS have to be made by FILM MAKERS?”
- Bill Corbett as Crow T. Robot, Mystery Science Theater 3000: 907 - Hobgoblins

Meet the SpartansLast year’s surprise hit was the clever, probing dramedy Juno. Starring Ellen Page and Michael Cera (Arrested Development), it was written by a stripper named Diablo Cody and dealt fearlessly with the topic of teen pregnancy. After massive success on the independent film circuit, Juno was released across the country on Christmas day and remains the #6 grossing film a month afterwards.

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Get Smart (Or Not)

They’re everywhere - from The Dukes of Hazzard to Bewitched. Before long, every classic T.V. show will make it to the silver screen. It doesn’t even matter if they’re good (obviously), if there’s a nostalgia audience, they will get made. And so comes Get Smart.

Get SmartGet Smart was a funny show in its time. Steve Carell sounds like good casting, and the teaser trailer looked pretty funny. But now that the full international trailer has been released, fans and critics are slightly less enthusiastic.

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Hayden Panettiere–Back In The Saddle and Basket Toss Again.

Even she realizes this is getting sad.It wasn’t so very long ago that me and a dear friend were talking back and forth over the subject of Frankie Muniz. You know, the poor little schmuck who played brainy socially inept jerk Malcolm for seven seasons of Malcolm in the Middle and then went on to conquer Hollywood by playing the exact same character over and over again in a half a dozen movies, give or take? Well, you may not be too conversant, but Heroes heroine Hayden Panettiere spent a little time with Frankie on Malcolm, but Hayden’s got something of a different problem.

Be! Typecasted! Be-E-Typecasted!

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It’s Arrested Development. Movie!

Somewhere, a Fox executive is shaking his head and saying he made a huge mistake.Okay…I want everybody to just calm down right now! I’m calm! See? Look at me and tell me I’m calm! I’M CALM!! Relax. Get a hold of yourself, man. This is actually going to be pretty cool, especially when I tell you what’s going on. I’m terribly fond of the too-good-for-it’s-own-good Fox series Arrested Development—and when I read that there might well be a feature-length movie released about it?

Well, that just made my night.

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Brawndo: The Thirst Mutilator! And It Really Exists!

It’s got electrolytes!  It’s what plants crave!  It’s…um…real….The first time I watched Mike Judge’s Idiocracy, I felt much the same way I felt when I watched his Office Space for the first time. I laughed myself stupid, and then I realized, this is a whole lot truer than anyone wants to give it credit for. Indeed, watching the idiots slowly take over the world over the course of five hundred years in Idiocracy felt much like watching the jargon-spewing idiots of Office Space slowly take over the corporations of the world in a whole lot less time.

But Put Them Together….

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In the Not-Too-Distant Future

Ever since there were movies, there have been people making fun of movies. But nobody made it quite as much of an art as Mystery Science Theater 3000, a T.V. show based on the concept that old movies are hilarious in their proper context. Founded by comedian Joel Hodgson and a few friends, the show existed for an entire season on a tiny network before it was picked up by The Comedy Channel (now Comedy Central). As Kevin Murphy, the longest-lasting cast member, put it: “they were looking for something to fill their airtime, and that was our main advantage - if nothing else, we were long.”

MST3KAnd they were. Even paring the movies down as much as possible, they still ended up with an hour and twenty minutes of filler for the Comedy Channel. Before long, this “filler” became a phenomenon.

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