Review of 'Friendship': Tim Robinson converts self -friendly into comedy

We keep listening that we are in an epidemic of male solitude. Agonizing and hilarious “friendship makes it feel like black death. Written and directed by the debut of the filmmaker Andrew Deyoung (“Pen15”, “Shrill”) of TV), this joke trembles when Guy meets the man, the man, throws the man and the man of man burns everything. It is a reflection of the adult struggle to make new friends as seen through a mirror of the ghost house.

Tim Robinson plays Craig, a father who is delighted to pale with his new neighbor, Austin (Paul Rudd), until the night of a child ends in a blow and, finally, someone who calls the police. Craig's pain for her best lost friend makes Hume with denial, anger, negotiation and depression. Acceptance is impossible. The bleeding of spontaneous nose occur twice.

In other places, Robinson has become the boy from the male social anxiety cartel: the outcast that is so baffled by the rules of the educated talk that crosses the line and explodes in crying. In his record of cult sketches “I think you should leave”, he has won two consecutive emmy for the way he places vulnerability with anger, such as the sketch in which they were thrown out of a ghost and blubbers tour only for adults, “I don't know what is happening, but somehow our cables were crossed!” Robinson has never affirmed that his characters are in the spectrum, but autistic viewers have made fans about how much they relate to their confusion.

Only 5 '8 “, Robinson may seem threateningly huge. The options that would decrease to other actors: large jackets, hunched shoulders, public mockery) only make it bigger. When Craig feels the humiliation of humiliation in Horizon.” Ityysl “that is worth pointing out that Deyoung came up with the idea of ​​the script in 2018 before that program existed.

The “friendship” surrounds Robinson normally: filling talk, forced laughter and the type of beautiful lighting that you would see in a domestic insurance commercial. Craig somehow has a lovely wife (Kate Mara) and a credible son (the always attractive Jack Dylan Grazer). Mara's sensible tami establishes the tone in the opening scene, which takes place in a support group for couples. She offers the type of detailed and relatable monologue about sexual dysfunction and the discomfort of the film that can be found in a sincere independent film. Craig, naturally, cancels mood. “I'm orgasmando well,” he deleted.

It is impossible to imagine why Tami once agreed to marry him first, since he chooses to spend most of his time with his ex (Josh Segarra), a Hunky and sensitive firefighter. Meanwhile, Craig moves on Austin, a local meteorologist whose suspension ideas (fungal harvest, urban speleology, which begins a punk rock garage band) gives Craig a genuine joy. No one wanted to be his friend before. (Craig is so difficult to be close that we are more likely with his thugs, such as Eric Rahill, who has a large part as an unpleasant co -worker). When Craig sees Austin cracking a curry of a line in night news, he smiles like Santa Claus is real.

Austin's exuberant mustache and Hammy Southern Drawl are not synchronized with tone; Rudd seems stuck in Ferrell version of the film. I am fine with the idea that Austin is a bit false that pretends that he does not have a cell phone. But when the lie admits, nothing happens. (At least the FIB leads to several scenes in a phone store with the funny employee of Billy Bryk). The movie really doesn't care about anyone else's psychology; He wants to keep Craig Garnet at Oddball Island. Empathy would be too easy.

Even so, Rudd and Robinson's scenes are great. They laugh even for the ritual of asking for a sandwich in Subway. And Rudd has made an inverted version of this movie before, “I Love You, Man” of 2009, where he played the wallflower with a friend (Jason Segel) that teaches him to shout. There will be no learning here, although Craig tries and does not imitate Austin in his absence.

Robinson did not invent this type of comedy. One of the most sublime examples of the form dates back to the short work without words of Anton Chekhov, “The Sneeze”, a proto-“SNL” skate on a man who accidentally shares at the back of the neck of a government official and in his growing despair to normalize his Oopsie suffers a breakdown and diation. But “friendship” feels exactly well for exactly at this time. Cultural norms are changing just like communities in person are being broken down. In any second in public, I could go from invisible to starring a viral video that puts it in explosion.

It is difficult to be human. It is not surprising that Craig feels more like a lot of tsirastries with a leather suit. For everything I have seen about Robinson out of the camera (he does not seem to enjoy the press), he is a lovely man who raises two teenagers with his high school girlfriend. He plays Gauche in our name.

Although this is his first important role in the film after the success of his program, I can see him in that trajectory of Payaso to Thespian who ends with an Oscar to go with his Emmy. For now, however, I want to apologize to Deyoung. He will not obtain the credit he deserves for this excellent comic torment because he feels like another master class of Tim Robinson in self -friendly. Maybe it's something uncomfortable to say. Maybe it's fine.