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Related: Culture Forums, Support Forums'Me Time' Might Be Kevin Hart's Worst Movie Yet. And That's Really Saying Something.
The latest Kevin Hart buddy comedy, this time on Netflix, sees him enlist Mark Wahlberg for help with his supposed masculinity problems. To call it a mess is an understatement.https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/me-time-might-be-kevin-harts-worst-movie-yet-and-thats-really-saying-something
Kevin Hart loves making movies with a partner, be it The Rock, Ice Cube, Will Ferrell, The Rock, Bryan Cranston, Tiffany Haddish, Woody Harrelson or, you know, The Rock. Me Time thus dutifully adheres to the Hart template, pairing him with Mark Wahlberg in yet another effort in which he embodies a neutered, panicky pipsqueak struggling to reclaim his manliness opposite a macho stud. If youve endured a Hart film before, youve already seen writer/director John Hamburgs visually drab, comedically challenged Netflix feature (Aug. 26), which only distinguishes itself by being arguably the least funny entry in the stars entire canon.
Me Time wastes no time situating viewers in hackneyed Hart terrain. In a flashback to 15 years earlier, Sonny (Hart) is attending the over-the-top birthday party of his friend Huck Dembo (Wahlberg), during which they and others are going wingsuit flying. This isnt as crazy as the fact that Sonnys best friend is named Huck Dembo, which sounds less like a person than something youd spend hours searching for at Home Depot. Nonetheless, it suitably freaks out Sonny, whose trepidation turns to terror when hes accidentally blown off a cliff, thereby compelling Huck to save him and, in the process, confirm that hes always there for his best bud. In this moment of brotherly bonding, Sonny promises to attend all of Hucks subsequent birthday bashes.
Fast forward to the present, and Sonny is the sort of lame-o that is Harts specialty. Living in Sherman Oaks, California, with his wife Maya (Regina Hall) and his kids Dash (Che Tafari) and Ava (Amentii Sledge), Sonny is the epitome of emasculation: hes a stay-at-home dad who supports his clan while architect Maya functions as the breadwinner; hes the PTA president whos overseeing the middle school talent show; he drives an old minivan that doesnt have automatic doors; he pratfalls around the kitchen like a clown; hes out of his element at Mayas gala work events, where hes also threatened by his spouses hunky and successful client Armando (Luis Gerardo Méndez); and, rather than spending spring break with Huck, whos hosting a blowout get-together for his 44th birthday, hes going on a trip with his family to visit his in-laws. Hes a suburban domesticated dork and for that is mocked and humiliated by just about everyone he meetsno matter the backhanded praise he receives for being so good at his duties.
Following a series of scenarios that establish Sonny as a figurative eunuch with a giant Napoleon complex, Me Time provides him with a shot at redemptive transformation when Maya, realizing that her career has prevented her from getting to know her kids, decides to take Dash and Ava by herself to her parents house, thereby giving Sonny a week of me time. This, of course, simply leads to more embarrassment and failure for Sonny, who cant masturbate to 90s porn without being interrupted, vomits up all the BBQ hes been craving, and is roundly defeated at golf by a trio of elderly Asian women. Rather than throw in the towel, though, Sonny decides to join Huck for his party. At their first reunion, Huck appears buck naked, thereby underlining his own manliness in relation to Sonnys wimpiness. Once out in the California desert for what amounts to Hucks personal Burning Man shindig, Sonny suffers similar mortifications, from being chased off a portable toilet by a female mountain lion (because, you see, women are tougher than him), to being held up by his fellow revelers for a group photo like an awkward child.
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'Me Time' Might Be Kevin Hart's Worst Movie Yet. And That's Really Saying Something. (Original Post)
Celerity
Aug 2022
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I can't stand his annoying commercials. Immediate grabbing of remote to mute them. n/t
Peregrine Took
Aug 2022
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Peregrine Took
(7,417 posts)1. I can't stand his annoying commercials. Immediate grabbing of remote to mute them. n/t
MuseRider
(34,133 posts)2. 2 actors that insure I will NEVER watch that movie
and both in the same flick. 100% I will never see this.
Enjoy if you like them but for me, nope and never.