Bear with Us (2016)
6/10
Better than expected - a solid comedy
1 September 2021
Just to get it out of the way: this movie is full of so many plot holes that you couldn't fix it with all the duct tape in the world.

The whole film is over the top and extremely fast paced. It managed to pull it off pretty well, but this makes a small chunk of the jokes fall flat. An ongoing joke is about how stupid the plot actually is, which I enjoyed.

One thing that I found extremely funny was they built a bunch of call-back jokes. Not all of them were good, but a couple were and I think they did it very well mixing it in with their fast dialogue.

The best friend characters are both pretty great, and have a lot of enjoyable jokes throughout. The main character and side characters are hit or miss, but they all have their moments. The girlfriend character is constantly terrible, but I suppose that's the point.

The acting is fine all around, and the ending really escalates things in very funny ways.

The camera work and music are all good, and it being black & white didn't take anything away (it didn't add anything either, but maybe it was for the budget).

It's not 10*s like a lot of the other reviews say, but it is funny and pretty good!
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