Why does that sound filthy?
Impressions:
Given the yelly promos, I was pretty concerned that overreactions would outweigh any of the actual slapstick, and that was indeed the case. So much of the humor is not that wacky things are happening, but the reaction to them having had happened, which is the equivalent of having characters announce “A JOKE HAS BEEN MADE. WE ARE NOW CALLING ATTENTION TO THAT JOKE.” The humor is not a cutting barb, a clever quip, clever wordplay, referential callback, but that someone tells the audience that one of those occurred, whether or not it actually did, and when you miss on that, which is frequent, it’s simply grating.
Then there’s what passes for the story, the backdrop by which all this yelling is held together. I’m not expecting Shakespeare here, or even Full House level of script, but you have a whole swathe of ‘gags’ that centered on him being too conspicuous and you need to be subtle, yelled at the top of their lungs. The random screaming is secret and not noticeable, but fidgeting with an old camera is. There are plenty of ways to make this premise work even while being profoundly silly, but the need to overreact and yell every ten seconds infects and undermines everything. The Yakuza bit in the second half was maybe a little better, but I was so worn down by the loud yelling at that point that a bunch of speedlines weren’t going to fix things.
