Me Time Overview

Plot: When a stay-at-home dad finds himself with some “me time” for the primary time in years whereas his spouse and children are away, he reconnects along with his former finest good friend for a wild weekend that just about upends his life.

Overview: Kevin Hart is something if not constant. Over the course of his huge display screen profession, Hart has persistently performed the identical character again and again: the lovable straight man who invariably loses his cool and hilarious outcomes comply with. From Night time College and Central Intelligence to Jumanji and Experience Alongside, Hart has by no means come near matching the vitality of his stand-up comedy exhibits for everything of a characteristic movie. Whereas he has tried his hand at extra dramatic fare like Fatherhood, True Story, and The Upside or motion roles like Die Hart and The Man From Toronto, Hart persistently returns to comedies. His newest companions him with Mark Wahlberg for yet one more manufacturing that by no means rises to the problem of providing one thing distinctive. Whereas Me Time had the potential to ship a enjoyable, R-rated comedy, it finally ends up as simply one other underwhelming paycheck venture.

Me Time locations Hart within the position of Sonny Fisher, a stay-at-home dad who invests all of his time in his children and volunteering at their college. Sonny’s spouse, Maya (Regina Corridor), is a gifted architect working with mogul Armando Zavala (Luis Gerardo Mendez). Whereas Sonny spends his time micromanaging his son and daughter, he avoids calls from his childhood finest good friend Huck Dembo (Mark Wahlberg) whose annual birthday celebrations and bachelor life-style deviate from Sonny’s world of lunches and expertise exhibits. When dad or mum Alan Gellar (Andrew Santino) suggests Sonny take some me time throughout spring break, Maya takes the children to her dad and mom whereas Sonny reunites with Huck for his forty fourth birthday celebration. It’s there that the trailer would have you ever consider that every one hell breaks lose.

As an alternative, Me Time follows a chaotic mash of assorted humorous sequences right into a considerably nonsensical journey for Sonny to understand what issues most to him. This entails tortoises, higher deckers, strip golf equipment, left footwear, and keyboards. There are quite a lot of parts of this film that don’t actually add up regardless of the film wanting you to consider that all of it is smart. Me Time feels far and wide and spends quite a lot of its working time not sure of whether or not it needs to be a raunchy comedy alongside the traces of The Hangover or if it needs to be one thing extra family-friendly. There are vibrant spots on this film that did make me chuckle out loud, however they have been few and much between. Taken individually, these scenes play out and work in touchdown the joke they got down to inform, however as an entire film, they largely really feel cobbled collectively and don’t circulate very effectively.

Whereas Kevin Hart has mastered taking part in this identical position, Mark Wahlberg is woefully misplaced. As a lot as I appreciated Wahlberg reverse Will Ferrell in The Different Guys, his vitality right here pales compared to Hart. An early flashback meant to point out how Sonny and Huck was once such good mates feels very synthetic and their relationship for the remainder of the film feels very compelled. Whereas each actors do have moments right here that present they are often very humorous, I felt that this complete film might have labored higher had Wahlberg performed the stay-at-home dad craving for a change in routine whereas Hart performed the growing old bachelor who must act his age. The scenes the place the 2 actors discover a center floor of their habits undoubtedly assist having them change roles as a result of because it stands this simply appears like a film we have now seen many instances earlier than.

What works effectively on this film are the supporting gamers. Andrew Santino and Luis Gerardo Mendez are hilarious whereas Jimmy O. Yang is wasted in a minor position as Stan Berman that ought to have been a extra substantial a part of the story. There may be additionally an important cameo that elements into the center of the movie that would have additionally been higher used and finally ends up feeling like a wasted alternative. Author and director John Hamburg has expertise with balancing gifted pairs of actors in comedies like Alongside Got here Polly, I Love You, Man, and Why Him? however by no means finds a approach to make the most of Wahlberg and Hart on the identical time. A lot of the minor roles on this film are far funnier than both of the leads and it’s a rattling disgrace since there was potential for this story to have been a lot better had it discovered some focus.

Me Time is a major instance of what occurs when an actor like Kevin Hart doesn’t stretch himself out of his consolation zone to sort out a narrative that’s genuinely humorous. Apart from some scatological jokes and F-bombs, I can’t fathom why this film is even rated R. Me Time is an ideal Netflix film as a result of it received’t harm so that you can throw it on when you have nothing else to look at however would have felt like a waste of cash had you paid to see it on the massive display screen. The expertise on display screen deserved so much higher materials and a script that didn’t really feel like a half dozen fragments of concepts compelled collectively to fill 100 minutes of display screen time.

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