Post by StevePulaski on Jun 22, 2011 23:04:26 GMT -5
Rating: ★½
It takes a big open mind and an easy sense of humor to like Pauly Shore. I'm one of those people. Sometimes I can act like Pauly Shore. By that I mean laugh at myself and talk in a weird voice. Not everything he does is funny, but he is usually good in all of his films. You can't compare him to Bill Murray or someone of great comedic talent because he isn't aiming for that. He is aiming for a Tom Green style. He succeeds.
Natural Born Komics is a collection of poorly written, poorly acted, and poorly executed skits featuring Pauly Shore, T-Pain, Vivica A. Fox, Charlie Murphy, and numerous other actors. The forty eight minute Showtime special is short and sweet, but leaves a lot not accomplished and empty.
It seems like Pauly was handed the run time for the program in an abrupt style and he couldn't exceed a minute. Everything feels short or extended. Short meaning skits like Cheaters being very fast paced, and extended like with Pauly's funny but unnecessary introductions.
The introductions provide a little humor, but they spoil what is ahead. He literally explains everything to the audience before he shows you the clip. The fun is ruined and so is the surprise. It's like reading a spoiler on accident. All humor is lost.
My favorite skit, and I use that term loosely, is probably Scarface. It's not very good, but it stands out among the rest. The Cheaters skit was lame and so were most of the others. I did really enjoy the stand up material with Pauly and wished the entire Dvd was a standup routine by Shore himself. It's the same thing with Carrot Top Rocks Las Vegas. He performs for about four minutes, then we get lame skits. Only this, it's like two minute standup clips at most. Definitely filler.
The most disappointing thing about the special is "The Weasel" character resurrection. Instead of the nineties Pauly Shore "Weasel," we get a mundane, almost parody of the character that simply has stumbled into the wrong decade. When you ressurect a character who has been "dead" for years, especially in a new decade, it almost never works. Pauly Shore is a nineties kind of guy. "The Weasel" is entering a toxic zone.
I'm waiting for Pauly Shore to do two types of movies; one is another buddy comedy with preferably Andy Dick. And a straight forward drama film with him as the lead. I know Shore has the reputation of a comedian, but if you look how well Martin Lawrence and Robin Williams do with a drama based script, I can see Pauly doing a well done drama film.
Being a made for TV special, Pauly Shore's Natural Born Komics was never meant to be a praised event. However, I don't think it was intended to be a total bomb with almost no humor. Pauly is Pauly, and he is funny to some sort of extent in this, but when dissected and examined closer, it just deserves to be on Showtime After Dark.
Starring: Pauly Shore, Vivica A. Fox, Charlie Murphy, and T-Pain. Directed by: Pauly Shore.
It takes a big open mind and an easy sense of humor to like Pauly Shore. I'm one of those people. Sometimes I can act like Pauly Shore. By that I mean laugh at myself and talk in a weird voice. Not everything he does is funny, but he is usually good in all of his films. You can't compare him to Bill Murray or someone of great comedic talent because he isn't aiming for that. He is aiming for a Tom Green style. He succeeds.
Natural Born Komics is a collection of poorly written, poorly acted, and poorly executed skits featuring Pauly Shore, T-Pain, Vivica A. Fox, Charlie Murphy, and numerous other actors. The forty eight minute Showtime special is short and sweet, but leaves a lot not accomplished and empty.
It seems like Pauly was handed the run time for the program in an abrupt style and he couldn't exceed a minute. Everything feels short or extended. Short meaning skits like Cheaters being very fast paced, and extended like with Pauly's funny but unnecessary introductions.
The introductions provide a little humor, but they spoil what is ahead. He literally explains everything to the audience before he shows you the clip. The fun is ruined and so is the surprise. It's like reading a spoiler on accident. All humor is lost.
My favorite skit, and I use that term loosely, is probably Scarface. It's not very good, but it stands out among the rest. The Cheaters skit was lame and so were most of the others. I did really enjoy the stand up material with Pauly and wished the entire Dvd was a standup routine by Shore himself. It's the same thing with Carrot Top Rocks Las Vegas. He performs for about four minutes, then we get lame skits. Only this, it's like two minute standup clips at most. Definitely filler.
The most disappointing thing about the special is "The Weasel" character resurrection. Instead of the nineties Pauly Shore "Weasel," we get a mundane, almost parody of the character that simply has stumbled into the wrong decade. When you ressurect a character who has been "dead" for years, especially in a new decade, it almost never works. Pauly Shore is a nineties kind of guy. "The Weasel" is entering a toxic zone.
I'm waiting for Pauly Shore to do two types of movies; one is another buddy comedy with preferably Andy Dick. And a straight forward drama film with him as the lead. I know Shore has the reputation of a comedian, but if you look how well Martin Lawrence and Robin Williams do with a drama based script, I can see Pauly doing a well done drama film.
Being a made for TV special, Pauly Shore's Natural Born Komics was never meant to be a praised event. However, I don't think it was intended to be a total bomb with almost no humor. Pauly is Pauly, and he is funny to some sort of extent in this, but when dissected and examined closer, it just deserves to be on Showtime After Dark.
Starring: Pauly Shore, Vivica A. Fox, Charlie Murphy, and T-Pain. Directed by: Pauly Shore.