Comedy Show That Plays Bloopers and Majes Funny Comments
The best thing about the movie are the interviews....
.... unfortunately, the movie lacks interviews. The plot of this movie is simple and kind of boring, not going to lie about that. What makes it watchable and funny are the interviews as well as the blooper reel at the end, other than that there's basically nothing funny about the movie.
I thought the idea of making a Between Two Ferns movie was a good one, and it was, in theory. I just expected something else. I expected more interviews and The Office vibes, but this was just a mess.
If you like the web-series, you'll probably enjoy the movie, maybe. I'd suggest just skipping through to the interviews, instead of watching the whole thing. 6/10, just because of the interviews and the blooper reel at the end.
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Credit outtakes almost make up for rest of movie
It was watchable and had a few humorous moments throughout but I laughed much more during the credit outtakes than during any other part of the film. They probably should have just rolled that for 90 minutes.
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All we wanted was just the interviews
Meh, the movie was okay-ish, mostly because Zach Galifianakis is hilarious as expected, but the movie itself is sort of rubbish and forced.The interviews - the heart of the whole idea - come way too short. Why Netflix just didn't opt to do a miniseries consisting of 10 interviews, 10 minutes each is beyond me. It would have been a major hit.
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Okish
It was ok. Considering it has a lot of star cameos I would have expected more. Some LOL moments but not enough to consider it anymore than mediocre.
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Simple and Funny...Zach is good.
I enjoyed it. Was funny for the most part. They cut short some of the celeb interviews but overall I found it funny. People need to keep in mind that this is the driest humor you'll encounter besides Larry David.
Overall it's funny, it's not really a film but more a device to show Zach terrorizing celebs. Overall it's simple and funny. Again they could have elongated the interviews, but it's still funny. Oh and watch the credits......:)
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Ok
The bloopers at the end was the best part of the movie.
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Enjoyable but not great
Was thinking that the main premise of the film would have more interviews than a typical plot. Though it's a short film and there are some decent moments but not everything is funny. The interviews with the celebrities were roughly short and possibly the best part of the film. The bloopers at the end were good too.
Wasn't expecting much, it was decent but what it was but could have been a lot bette given its hype.
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What it needs to be, and a lot of it.
Between Two Ferns: The Movie. That's precisely the title, and you clicked on the thing, so what did y'all expect? A transcendental study of body and mind? Jesus, simply have some fun for once with an innocent little flick like this. Just my opinion. Personally, and it's cool if you disagree of course, this was everything I wanted and even a bit more. I did not think I would laugh pretty much all the way through one bit, but I sure did. You can totally see the fun they had on set and that decidedly benefitted the movie. Even Will Ferrell had a few hilarious lines, and I close to never think he's actually funny. Jake Gyllenhaal got a shout-out that worked so well 'cause of a good Between Two Ferns inside joke. Paul Rudd couldn't even fully pretend to be serious because he was having so much fun. Benedict Cumberbatch. This very solid flick obviously does nothing to reinvent comedy or challenge the arts, but it's so entertaining and does what it needed to do, and I'm sure some jokes will stick with me for a long time. And the bloopers are flawless, by the way.
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Hehehehe
7 ? Hehehehe. Maybe it's the wine but Hehehehe. No it's all the wine. This review is zero help.
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Lost potential
The interviews were funny. The rest of the film wasn't. If you fast forward to the interviews it will be a short funny film. Some good cameos.
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Skip to the end
The end credits are the funniest part. If you just skip all the "movie" parts and watch the 2 minute interviews you'll be better off.
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Skip the movie and watch the end credits
They were probably hoping to churn out a new Borat type movie, but it resembled more a new Action Point (2019). An excuse to drag a skit out to an 80 minute movie. I gave it almost 15 minutes, but then I started skipping the boring connective tissue between the celebrity interviews. It surely didn't help that this was the third (!) miss on Netflix on the same evening for me.
The end credits though are hilarious, and I guess you can find them on Youtube if you don't have Netflix. Because there is no reason to watch this entire film.
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A hard slog without cracking a smile
Is this what passes for funny these days? It's just not nearly as clever as it thinks it is, and it's really mean spirited with no real pay off for that meanness. I know Zack's supposed to be a comic genius but it's the same joke over and over and if it was ever funny the first time it sure isn't now. He needs to be unemployed of come up with something new. This isn't cutting it at all.
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A strangely unfunny film feeling like a missed opportunity
"Between Two Ferns" are some of the most brilliant comedy sketches ever made and when Funny or Die decides to make a movie about Zach Galiafanakis' fictional version of himself it could have been a hit. But sadly, it isn't. The bizarre humor of Galiafankis is absent throughout the entire film and with an extremely flat supporting cast, he cannot carry the film on his shoulders alone. "Between Two Ferns: The Movie" starts out fine but as the celebrity cameos stack up and the rushed production together with the thin script really make itself clear the film turns into a disappointment. Galifianakis is one of today's most brilliant comedians but I've never been so indifferent to his performances before as in this movie. I wish I could give it a higher rating, but I can't.
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Did not live up to the expectations, but still pretty fun.
Long time fan of the original show online and had high hopes for this after the trailer. The story and some jokes seemed really predictable, but they were still fun nonetheless. The run time of only 75 minutes helps the movie not get boring as it is paced pretty fast. The celebrity interactions are the strongest point imo, but they felt rushed because of the fact that each celebrity was there for like 2 minutes at a time.
Overall, if you are a fan of the show, you should give it a try and see what you think. If you've never seen or dislike the original, then this is definitely not for you.
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Sigh... when the jokes arent funny, there is nothing else left...
NOT FUNNY. PERIOD.
But, my taste isnt your taste. Perhaps you think these staged, prescripted setups are funny. Could be.
What's my biggest gripe about 2 Ferns is the fact that it wants to look like improvisation, which it is definitely not. No problem there. But only if the jokes were good and not so ridiculously overkill.
Any subtlety is thrown out of the windows. Which is killing for making jokes.
Perhaps suited for kids, who would like this sort of silly slapstick?
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A complete waste of time
When it was announced only a couple of weeks ago, I was surprised to say the least that they were adapting a satirical talk show of the internet into a movie. I've always been a huge fan of the web show and always found the writing and humour to be really witty and funny. The same can not be said for the movie, which was just plain not funny and a complete waste of time unfortunately.
This movie followed every single cliche you could possibly imagine from a Hollywood movie. You know exactly where the film is going the entire time. The main driving force for the story is that they have to go cross country to get 10 between two ferns episodes shot so that Zach can get his own network talk show, so its a roadtrip movie... How fresh. The characters are bad, forgettable and unfunny. There is zero special about the filmmaking. One of the aspects of the movie is it's shot like they are making a documentary about the making of the web show, similar to something like the office, but unlike the office, it has zero value within this movie. It serves no purpose at all and was just another lazy excuse for a few gags. It also is completely inconsistent, the whole movie isnt shot in this documentary style, they make a point of Zach asking the make believe filmmakers to shoot everything, but then there are scenes presented like a normal movie. which begs the question why even bother in the first place?
At one point in this movie, Will Ferrell (Playing the manager of funny or die) says "people like to laugh at Zach, not with him" in reference to what made the show so popular. As if to suggest that is the driving force to what makes the web series so popular, is the fact that Zach is such a goofball. But that's not the appeal at all. The appeal is it's Zach making personal jokes about real stars careers and just plain being rude to them, having Zach shush the president of the United states, telling actors how terrible they are, in one episode he even asked hilary Clinton if email is the best way to reach her. Brilliant. It may be staged but undeniably it's still funny to see these things that you would never see happen in a more traditional interview, the show provided something unique and somewhat daring, and funny. So it's so bizzare to me that the writer and director of this movie (who is the same as the web show) didn't seem to understand the aspects that made the show so popular in the first place. I never saw Zach galifinakis as a character in the original series. More as a spokesperson for these jokes, jokes that people would make between there friends except Zach was directly speaking to them. not the Zach we see in this film, this bumbling goofy idiot type character who has a dream of making it big and becoming a real talk show host, Errm, who cares!!
The best part of this movie is of course the interviews themselves. But even they are not nearly as funny. They just feel more "polished" and some of them are less than a minute long. The movie was also not self aware in the slightest. I think it would have helped this movie along if they got alot more meta, you know have actors play up the way they are perceived by audiences, but they dont. Instead they just chose to go the absolute laziest route possible and have the actors just sit there quietly and take the abuse. The scenes between the interviews could have been filled with birdman like self awareness with actors mocking themselves. Such wasted potential here.
Overall this isn't a movie I can recommend, maybe for the ferns episodes within the film but you can probably just watch them online. In total they probably take up like 15 minutes of the film.Honestly this movie kind of ruins between two ferns going forward. When the show chastises actors for there bad choices on making bad projects from nownon. It's going to be really hard not to see the hypocrisy considering they were the same people who thought this was a good idea.
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Terrible cast with no plot makes this a disappointment
Zach Galifianakis is a bit of an anomaly to me. He can be absolutely hilarious in a movie, or he can be atrociously unfunny. And the key to which isn't usually the writing, it's the supporting cast. In 'The Hangover' for example (and don't get me wrong that movie did have fantastic writing) he was acting with not only brilliant actors, but actors who knew how to work off him. In 'Between Two Ferns: The Movie' the cast he is given to work with on the road trip section of the story is about is as bad as they come.
The movie really is rocks and diamonds. When he interviews celebrities it is comedy gold, the rest of the movie though is bordering on garbage. I mean there really isn't anything apparent in terms of a plot and so all the movie has to go on is jokes, and then Galifianakis is the only one who even tries to say anything funny. It's almost like no one wanted to upstage him and so basically they did nothing. It makes for some extremely bland viewing at times.
The fact that this isn't completely unwatchable is down to just how good the Two Ferns concept is. If you enjoy the skits then you are going to at least semi enjoy yourself. You'll basically just be like I was, which is frustrated waiting for the next one to come along. With some more care and effort and a better cast this could have been something decent.
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Must be American humour....
When the bloopers at the end of the movie are funnier than the movie itself you know its bad great actors wasted 3 stars for the bloopers because they actually made me laugh.......
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So very bad
This is what happens when a company like Netflix makes a greedy money grab. The original "Between Two Ferns" productions for Funny Or Die are hilarious and brilliant, allowing Galifanakis to shine as a true come genius. The Netflix movie is simply awful, the only bright moments being when Galifanakis simply recreates the BTF set pieces. The casting, acting, writing,and direction of the connecting material is so far beneath the source material, it is virtually impossible to watch. Stick with the original source material and skip this embarrassing mess.
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Should've shown more of the interviews
I don't know why the interviews, the entire reason people care about Between Two Ferns: The Movie, took such a backseat to the story in this film. The story is pretty paper thin and stretched well beyond its limits. The interviews are great as expected, but the comedy in the rest of the movie is pretty hit or miss. I just want to see celebrities making fun of each other, not all this other crap.
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Hilarious
I thought it was great! Well written and very witty. I especially liked the outtakes during the credits. There needs to more episodes of Between Two Ferns made and released asap please.
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Ali G did it much better
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Between two Ferns
Between two Ferns starts out promising but soon runs out of ideas very very quickly. Starring Zach Galifianakis as a online celebrity talk show host, this movie reminded me of 'Da Ali G Show' from the early noughties. However Sasha Baron Cohen's offering was much more cerebral. There's even a subtle nod to Baron's work but this film pales in comparison. In 'Da Ali G show' it appeared that the interviewed participants weren't in on the joke. Here everything feels terribly staged and obvious.
Galifianakis and his oddball crew travel across country interviewing and insulting celebrities along the way with the promise of making it big time if they deliver ten interviews. The novelty soon wears off and the jokes land few and far between. Sure there's the odd laugh out loud moment here and there but much of this movie is just too silly to laugh at. I found this movie tedious but stayed with it just to see which celeb would pop up next. Sadly though once this movie begins to descend it sinks into a unfunny hole too deep to get out of.
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Between Two Ferns: The Movie Review
Between Two Ferns: The Movie is unfortunately, a forgettable comedy film. Here are the positives. The best part about this movie is that most of the celebrity interviews are pretty funny. The segments with Matthew McConaughey, John Legend, Paul Rudd, and Peter Dinklage are pretty funny while the other celebrity interviews are entertaining at best. There are some outtakes during the end credits that are funnier than most of the film. That's kind of disappointing that your outtakes are funnier than most of your film. I think Zach Galifianakis does a good job with what he is given and helps keep this film afloat. The film has this mockumentary feel for it and the camera work compliments that. It's shot in a way a mockumentary would be and it's refreshing. The film can be self aware at some points and doesn't try to make itself bigger than what it is supposed to be. The film does what it needs to do and then it is over. Here are the negatives. The story is kind of lame. It's another one of those "redemption stories because a character did something embarrassing" that has been done to death. The film doesn't do anything to establish itself as something different. Everything other than the celebrity interviews is incredibly boring and starts to drag heavily. Fortunately, as it starts to drag even heavily, it switches to another celebrity interview. This also leads to a weird structure issue though. It does start to feel out of place when it changes so suddenly but it does lead to better scenes. About 75% of the jokes aren't that funny which is unfortunate since it is a comedy film. Like I said earlier, I got a bunch of laughs out of the outtakes than I did most of the film. The editing for this film feels very amateurish. It has a bunch of quick cuts that are distracting and obnoxious. This also leads to a pacing issue. It's weirdly paced due to the quick cuts and awkward structure. It's these issues that really drag the film down. Overall, Between Two Ferns: The Movie has some funny sequences but is held back by a cookie cutter story, lots of boring moments, and awkward pacing. I give Between Two Ferns: The Movie a 4/10.
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