21 Jump Street (Phil Lord & Chris Miller, 2012)

21 Jump Street  is such an unnecessary remake that even the film itself acknowledges its own pointlessness. It's a moment of upfront hon...

Get Him to the Greek

Early in Get Him to the Greek , an unlikely spin-off of Apatow Productions' most emotionally rewarding feature to date, Forgetting Sarah...

How to Train Your Dragon

It is not enough to say that How to Train Your Dragon is the finest picture to roll out of Dreamworks Animation's studio, particularly ...

The Invention of Lying

Ricky Gervais' first major feature as writer, director and star works with an interesting premise, but the man who created arguably the ...

Funny People

I may at last have seen an Apatow Productions film that could benefit from the inevitable extended cut on DVD. Strange, considering that, of...

Forgetting Sarah Marshall

A poster on one of the forums I frequent once described Forgetting Sarah Marshall as the "Apatow-produced film most like Freaks and Ge...

Knocked Up — Unrated Version

The more I watch Forgetting Sarah Marshall the more I see the flaws in the relationships found in other major Apatow Productions. On the on...