Trailer Review: Observe and Report (Red-Band)

Posted by Paul Clark


One of my biggest misgivings about last year’s The Foot Fist Way was that, although leading man Danny McBride was some kind of comic genius, he was surrounded by a bunch of amateurs, which caused the comedy to suffer. Thankfully, director Jody Hill appears to have recognized the need to use more than one funny person in a comedy, judging by the cast he’s assembled for his follow-up, Observe and Report. Like a certain hit from this January, Observe takes as its unlikely hero a schlubby mall security guard, but this is no Paul Blart, which made this online-only red-band trailer a good way to go in order to distinguish it from its more family-friendly cousin (here’s a link to the green-band trailer). Observe appears to follow the template of the contemporary R-rated comedy, but I enjoy a lot about this trailer, especially the sight of Seth Rogen playing something other than an intensely verbal, pop culture-savvy slacker. And after a string of self-important dramas like Crash, World Trade Center and Lions For Lambs, Michael Peña’s career could really use some comedy.


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