Monday 19 February 2018

The Interview (Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg, 2014)

James Franco and Seth Rogen star as a trash chat show presenter and producer, who grab an unlikely chance to up their credibility by interviewing the North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, naturally followed by slight complications as the CIA asks them to assassinate him instead. It's as lightweight as this recap might suggest, but the duo make an amiable pair and, though the satire is too broad to have any bite and the comedy doesn't rise much above the puerile and tasteless gross-out/stoner level of Ted or Grimsby, at least it's far funnier and nowhere near as pointlessly offensive as Team America: World Police, not that this stopped the North Koreans turning its release into a major political altercation.

4/10

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