Trainwreck Reviews

To be honest, even though I have heard about Amy Schumer, I have to admit that I'm not really familiar with her work but since this movie was available on HBO, I thought I might as well check it out. Well, eventually, it turned out to be a pretty decent watch. Indeed, even though by now, I think I have seen enough R rated raunchy comedies, most of the jokes were actually pretty funny. Furthermore, they managed to add some juicy supporting roles for such unexpected actors like John Cena and Lebron James who were both really quite funny here. Above all, I really liked the fact that Amy Schumer and Bill Hader looked like some average people which was just so refreshing. Indeed, even though most Judd Apatow's comedies focus on some nerds like Seth Rogen, those guys always end up with some gorgeous semi-top-model. It's too bad that those 2 nice and relatable characters had both some way too awesome jobs but you can't have everything, I guess. Furthermore, the way they got into trouble in their relationship was slightly bogus but it wasn't a big issue. To conclude, even though it was nothing really amazing, I thought it was still a decent comedy and I think it is definitely worth a look, especially if you like the genre. 

Starts out a little slow, and if you don't listen closely you don't catch all the jokes, but the story really blossoms and the fairly unsympathetic protagonist stumbles her way down a road to redemption. Credit to Schumer and Bill Hader. I watched the unrated version so I don't know what they cut out.

Initial Thought: I was pretty skeptical about this at first. I don't really follow Amy Schumer as she really doesn't seem all that funny and I don't quite find her attractive either. Upon asking a few people who watched a screening of it saying that it was pretty good I thought I would give it a shot. Plus I do tend to like Judd Apatow to an extent.

Characters/Acting: This isn't Judd Apatow's usual round up of people. It does have a pretty solid cast with the likes of Bill Hader, Tilda Swinton, and Ezra Miller. It also has quite a few great cameos added in. Holy crap if that's Tilda Swinton I have to say she is quite unrecognizable like that. John Cena does great with his comedy albeit being in rather awkward scenarios while accomplishing this. Yeah so Amy Schumer is really not funny and basically plays the same type in everything. She is almost like the Will Ferell of female comedians. For me that's a bad thing. Even Method Man is a better actor here. I thought Lebron James was pretty funny. Bill Hader was pretty good. Since this is kind of sports related there are quite a few cameos from them here.

Story: Having thought that monogamy was never possible, a commitment-phobic career woman may have to face her fears when she meets a good guy. Honestly the only times things are funny onscreen is whenever Lebron James or John Cena are on screen. The last like twenty minutes were actually pretty good. The rest of the movie and like the very last few minutes didn't do anything for me. The story was just way too typical.

Directing/Writing: I have seen a lot of Judd Apatow's films. They range from just okay to pretty damn funny. I'm hoping this leans to the latter. I'm surprised that he didn't write this one as well. I haven't seen much of Amy Schumer, but she hasn't done anything to wow me so far. Hopefully her writing is entertaining. Well for the most part her writing is pretty bland. I wonder how much of this was actually improved. Anyways maybe if it had Apatow's writing it may have been good.

Final Thought: This was as the title states a trainwreck. It's a bit too long. Amy Schumer cannot hold a movie in my opinion. She has to be the weakest performer of everyone here. This was basically all the movies we see about guys like this just with a woman in the position. I wouldn't recommend it unless you are one of those who actually like Amy Schumer.