The Interview (2014)
Directed by Evan Goldberg
Dave Skylark and his producer Aaron Rapaport run the celebrity tabloid show "Skylark Tonight". When they land an interview with a surprise fan, North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, they are recruited by the CIA to turn their trip to Pyongyang into an assassination mission.
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What critics compared The Interview to
Oppressive, fascistic dictatorships have proved fertile ground for comic filmmakers from Chaplin and Lubitsch to Wes Anderson and Quentin Tarantino (whose “Inglourious Basterds” is another obvious reference point here).
So yeah, I did like this silly, over-the-top yet audacious movie that imagines the assassination of Kim, much in the same way Quentin Tarantino imagined the assassination of Hitler in “Inglourious Basterds.”
If you enjoyed the climactic shoot-outs in movies like “Inglourious Basterds” and “Django Unchained,” then you’ll enjoy where “The Interview” goes in the same way.
The low-humor high concept—which seems every bit as marijuana-inspired as Rogen & Goldberg's last collaboration with Franco, This Is the End—arguably one-ups Inglourious Basterds for pure audaciousness.
Look, Quentin Tarantino killed Hitler in Inglourious Basterds and the neo-Nazis stayed quiet.
But as The Interview proved in 2014, controversy does not necessarily translate to ticket sales.
Much like when Sony pulled Seth Rogen and James Franco’s “The Interview” a few years back fearing an international incident, after finally seeing the film it’s hard to imagine anyone ever getting worked up over such an adolescent little trifle.
Nowadays, that sensationalism comes from politics rather than gimmicks: 2014’s The Interview was virtually canceled in the wake of North Korean agitation, before finally being released to a ho-hum reception.
It was only a few years ago that Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg made the controversial The Interview – a movie also featuring a celebrity who gets embroiled in a government operation – and while Tom Gormican’s movie makes moves to shake up one-to-one comparisons, they are mostly obvious choices that audiences will see coming from the start.
Of course it's compliments of the minds that blew up a foreign leader in "The Interview" and reveled in the comedy of rape by demon in "This is the End."
Credit goes to Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen, who wrote This Is the End and The Interview, as well as to The Night Before writers Kyle Hunter and Ariel Shaffir.
From the minds of co-writers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg (the duo responsible for “This Is the End” and “The Interview”), and the directors of the beloved animated kids’ films “Thomas & Friends,” comes “Sausage Party,” an irreverent, adult-focused animated adventure.
These longtime friends and writing partners, whose previous brainstorms have resulted in the likes of Superbad, Pineapple Express and the North Korea-baiting The Interview, go all-in on the raunchy humour along with their A-list comedy collaborators.
Instead, producer Seth Rogen, who attempted to destroy U.S.–North Korean relations with The Interview, continues his self-amusement with self-congratulatory political satire.
From the depraved (“Observe And Report”) to the antisocial (“ This Is The End ”) to the incendiary (“ The Interview “), the star has always put his money where his loud mouth is, delivering consistently uproarious movies that no one else could have dreamed up – let alone gotten a greenlight.