The Dilemma (2011)
Directed by Ron Howard
Longtime friends Ronny and Nick are partners in an auto-design firm. They are hard at work on a presentation for a dream project that would really launch their company. Then Ronny spots Nick's wife out with another man, and in the process of investigating the possible affair, he learns that Nick has a few secrets of his own. As the presentation nears, Ronny agonizes over what might happen if the truth gets out.
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But The Dilemma is bad in a way that seems to parody all the ways in which a film like, say, The 40-Year-Old Virgin was good: Where the latter’s conceptual constraint fostered something fresh and startlingly funny, The Dilemma can’t commit to its concept, and settles for a fourth-generation dub of a successful formula, hoping to squeak by under James’s capacious, conga-dancing shadow and the blanket of improv jabber that Vaughn lays down as cover fire.
It feels like it was created by a script generator that tried to repackage James Franco ’s sympathetic drug dealer from “ Pineapple Express ” and Jane Lynch’s saleswoman in “ The 40-Year-Old Virgin ” for a PG-13 audience.
The director is Michel Gondry, who proved, in The Science of Sleep, to be a virtuoso at making childish fantasies take wing.