'For a Good Time, Call...' is anything but a good time. Its kind of amazing how this comedy can be so unfunny, I don't think I have even been in such a quite cinema. Sure there was the odd giggle here and there but they were a good half hour apart. I'm fairly sure my face resemmbled Jack Nichlson at the end of 'The Shining' while I was watching this, it really did just bore me to tears.
Living in New York on a string, Lauren Powell (Lauren Anne Miller) has parted with her rich boyfriend Charlie (James Wolk) who decides to move out of the country for a spell. Without a place to live she moves in with her gay friend Jesse (Justin Long) who promptly scouts out a roommate for Lauren so she'll be out of his hair giving back his privacy. But, it's just not any roommate to which Jesse introduces Lauren, its Katie Steele (Ari Graynor) the fast talking ditsy girl who ten years earlier doused pee all over Lauren while giving her a ride home. With Katie about to lose her apartment for back payment on her lease and Lauren not wanting to move out of New York and miss a possible chance at her dream job, the two consent to a limited arrangement. When Lauren finds out Katie has been getting most of her income giving phone sex things start getting out of control until she realizes there's a lot of money in the business.
Within the first four minutes of this film you know how it will play out step by step, it just sticks to the same old formula. The writing is horribly lazy and clumsy, the acting is fairly dreadful apart from the cameos and the very under used Mark Webber (Steven Stills from'Scott Pilgram'). I keep trying to think about things I liked about this movie but its so difficult to think of anything in this bland, boring, over-sexed mess of a movie. The sex jokes (which are all the film offers) all run flat within the first two minutes. This feels like a cheap rip off of 'Bridesmaids' and it just doesn't work.
A movie that is just shooting blanks from the from the get go, best leave this one alone.... Seriously.
Living in New York on a string, Lauren Powell (Lauren Anne Miller) has parted with her rich boyfriend Charlie (James Wolk) who decides to move out of the country for a spell. Without a place to live she moves in with her gay friend Jesse (Justin Long) who promptly scouts out a roommate for Lauren so she'll be out of his hair giving back his privacy. But, it's just not any roommate to which Jesse introduces Lauren, its Katie Steele (Ari Graynor) the fast talking ditsy girl who ten years earlier doused pee all over Lauren while giving her a ride home. With Katie about to lose her apartment for back payment on her lease and Lauren not wanting to move out of New York and miss a possible chance at her dream job, the two consent to a limited arrangement. When Lauren finds out Katie has been getting most of her income giving phone sex things start getting out of control until she realizes there's a lot of money in the business.
Within the first four minutes of this film you know how it will play out step by step, it just sticks to the same old formula. The writing is horribly lazy and clumsy, the acting is fairly dreadful apart from the cameos and the very under used Mark Webber (Steven Stills from'Scott Pilgram'). I keep trying to think about things I liked about this movie but its so difficult to think of anything in this bland, boring, over-sexed mess of a movie. The sex jokes (which are all the film offers) all run flat within the first two minutes. This feels like a cheap rip off of 'Bridesmaids' and it just doesn't work.
A movie that is just shooting blanks from the from the get go, best leave this one alone.... Seriously.
