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They give grades to the cast! And talk about their work!
Fairweather フレンズ
The タイトル song blared "I'll be there for you," but audiences and critics have been largely lukewarm to the big screen endeavours of TV's former favourite Friends. With Matthew Perry resurfacing in 17 Again this week, it's time to consider whether Friends' "friends" were only of the fairweather variety.
As breadwinning, social misfit Chandler Bing, Perry easily racked up the sitcom's most one-liners, quips and punchlines. But his insecurity-laced, perma-sarcasm could sound a bit like a broken record towards the end of the highly successful series.
The 質問 always was could Perry's relatively one-dimensional brand of comedy translate to the big screen -- where, admittedly, many one-trick ponies have had lucrative careers? As Perry takes another kick at the can, we grade the Friends' movie careers up to this point.
Matthew Perry
Friend: Chandler Bing
Best role: The Whole Nine Yards. Perry plays a miserable, suburban Canadian dentist whose life changes when a wanted mafia hit man (Bruce Willis) moves in 次 door -- spawning intrigue, violence, multiple double crossings and romantic triangles. Perry is believable as a hapless ordinary guy in over his head -- but maybe that's just because he's playing a miserable, suburban Canadian dentist. And seeing a フレンズ 星, つ星 in a non-cliched rom-com script goes a long way, too.
Worst role: Fools Rush In. (See cliched rom-com mentioned above). This movie is Perry's worst if only for the sheer implausibility of Salma Hayek ever having a one-night stand with him, subsequently leading to a surprise pregnancy, and a surprise marriage. Secondly, the film deserves damnation for sullying the good-name of a decent Elvis Presley song.
次 role: Perry plays another washed-up, miserable loser whose life did not work out as planned. Only this time he is somehow transferred back into the body of his 17-year-old self -- who just happens to be Zac Efron of High School Musical fame. We're not sure which fate is worse, but Efron's fawning ファン base are bound to help Perry's box-office fortunes.
Other screen fare: Hoosiers II: Senior 年 (2005), The Ron Clark Story (2006), The Whole Ten Yards (2004).
The bottom line: The ill-fated Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip was his best post-Friends work to 日付 -- but, alas, it was on the small screen. But if Kevin James can have a lucrative film career, then Perry should not give up hope yet.
Grade: B-
Jennifer Aniston
Friend: Rachel Green, the ubiquitous hairdo-styling, self-centred, on-and-off-again Ross dating waitress.
Best role: The Good Girl, where Aniston showed some 芝居 chops playing a mundane, unhappy woman who gets caught up in an illicit affair with a young grocery story clerk. (With a shout out for appearing in the cult comedy Office Space.)
Worst role: The Break-Up with Vince Vaughn. If watching the Ross-Rachel saga was tedious, try watching another, far もっと見る insufferable Aniston character live with her insufferable ex-boyfriend in a bid to keep their shared, snazzy condo. It will make あなた give up on love, and sign-up for the nearest priesthood または nunnery.
次 role: Brand New 日 (September 2009). Aniston plays a woman who falls for a romantic self-help 作者 played によって Aaron Eckhart. When they fall for one another, he realizes he hasn't got over his dead wife. Aniston being drawn to a romantic self-help guru? Is life imitating art?
Other screen fare: Rock 星, つ星 (2001), She's the One (1996).
The bottom line: Marley & Me's box-office bonanza was all about the dog -- Aniston has yet to prove she can carry a film on her own.
Grade: B
Matthew LeBlanc
Friend: The intelligence and maturity-challenged Joey Tribbiani.
Best role: ロスト in 宇宙 (1998). Sad that this qualified for "best." Joey as sci-fi 宇宙 adventurer was never going to fly.
Worst Role: Ed. A baseball movie co-starring a chimpanzee. (Please insert your own smarmy コメント here.)
次 Role: None apparent, though our bet is on an Ed sequel in which an emu joins the outfield.
Bottom line: How あなた doin' (Matthew)? "I'm living on Matthew Perry's couch."
Grade: F
David Schwimmer
Friend: As the Rachel-obsessed Dr. Ross Geller, Schwimmer was one half of the most nauseatingly tedious on-and-off-again relationships (second place: Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner) in the history of television.
Best role: Madagascar as Melman the giraffe.
Worst role: Madagascar as Melman the giraffe.
Other roles: Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008), The Pallbearer (1996).
次 role: Rapunzel (filming, set for 2010 release). A film on the origins of the classic fairy tale. As long as Schwimmer isn't playing a golden-wigged Rapunzel in the tower, we're game for giving this one a chance.
Bottom line: With a grating, nasally voice and the mopey eyes only a dead and blind mother could love, Schwimmer was never a natural fit for Hollywood -- with the exception of grating, nasally-voiced giraffes with mopey eyes. Bring on Madagascar 3!
Grade: D+
Courteney Cox
Friend: Monica Geller: the clean-freak, control-freak and otherwise freak-centric sister of Ross.
Best role: Scream. Cox played reporter Gayle Weathers in this highly original send-up of the slasher genre that spawned a franchise.
Worst role: Scream 2, Scream 3.
Other roles: 3000 Miles to Graceland (2001), Bedtime Stories (2008).
次 role: Scream 4 (2010).
Bottom line: Unless the Scream franchise can be stretched into Cox's geriatric years, her big screen career seems like nothing to shout about.
Grade: C
Lisa Kudrow
Friend: The dim-witted, eccentric, talentless musician Phoebe. Think of Joey's aforementioned challenges, then hit his character in the head with a hammer three times, then magnify によって 10. But Phoebe did give us the "tune" Smelly Cat.
Best role: Wonderland. Kudrow played the estranged wife of legendary porn 星, つ星 John Holmes, who became the prime suspect in one of L.A.'s most notorious multi-murders.
Worst role: Dr. Dolittle 2 (2001). What else can あなた say about a role that calls on あなた to voice an endangered くま, クマ that is equally ill-fated to be able to communicate with Eddie Murphy.
Other roles: Hotel for イヌ (2009), Analyze This (1999), Analyze That (2002), Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion (1997).
次 role: Bandslam (August 2009). The story of a young, fledgling rock band entering a battle of the bands. We're guessing Kudrow plays someone's mom.
Grade: C+
Source: nationalpost.com
They give grades to the cast! And talk about their work!
Fairweather フレンズ
The タイトル song blared "I'll be there for you," but audiences and critics have been largely lukewarm to the big screen endeavours of TV's former favourite Friends. With Matthew Perry resurfacing in 17 Again this week, it's time to consider whether Friends' "friends" were only of the fairweather variety.
As breadwinning, social misfit Chandler Bing, Perry easily racked up the sitcom's most one-liners, quips and punchlines. But his insecurity-laced, perma-sarcasm could sound a bit like a broken record towards the end of the highly successful series.
The 質問 always was could Perry's relatively one-dimensional brand of comedy translate to the big screen -- where, admittedly, many one-trick ponies have had lucrative careers? As Perry takes another kick at the can, we grade the Friends' movie careers up to this point.
Matthew Perry
Friend: Chandler Bing
Best role: The Whole Nine Yards. Perry plays a miserable, suburban Canadian dentist whose life changes when a wanted mafia hit man (Bruce Willis) moves in 次 door -- spawning intrigue, violence, multiple double crossings and romantic triangles. Perry is believable as a hapless ordinary guy in over his head -- but maybe that's just because he's playing a miserable, suburban Canadian dentist. And seeing a フレンズ 星, つ星 in a non-cliched rom-com script goes a long way, too.
Worst role: Fools Rush In. (See cliched rom-com mentioned above). This movie is Perry's worst if only for the sheer implausibility of Salma Hayek ever having a one-night stand with him, subsequently leading to a surprise pregnancy, and a surprise marriage. Secondly, the film deserves damnation for sullying the good-name of a decent Elvis Presley song.
次 role: Perry plays another washed-up, miserable loser whose life did not work out as planned. Only this time he is somehow transferred back into the body of his 17-year-old self -- who just happens to be Zac Efron of High School Musical fame. We're not sure which fate is worse, but Efron's fawning ファン base are bound to help Perry's box-office fortunes.
Other screen fare: Hoosiers II: Senior 年 (2005), The Ron Clark Story (2006), The Whole Ten Yards (2004).
The bottom line: The ill-fated Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip was his best post-Friends work to 日付 -- but, alas, it was on the small screen. But if Kevin James can have a lucrative film career, then Perry should not give up hope yet.
Grade: B-
Jennifer Aniston
Friend: Rachel Green, the ubiquitous hairdo-styling, self-centred, on-and-off-again Ross dating waitress.
Best role: The Good Girl, where Aniston showed some 芝居 chops playing a mundane, unhappy woman who gets caught up in an illicit affair with a young grocery story clerk. (With a shout out for appearing in the cult comedy Office Space.)
Worst role: The Break-Up with Vince Vaughn. If watching the Ross-Rachel saga was tedious, try watching another, far もっと見る insufferable Aniston character live with her insufferable ex-boyfriend in a bid to keep their shared, snazzy condo. It will make あなた give up on love, and sign-up for the nearest priesthood または nunnery.
次 role: Brand New 日 (September 2009). Aniston plays a woman who falls for a romantic self-help 作者 played によって Aaron Eckhart. When they fall for one another, he realizes he hasn't got over his dead wife. Aniston being drawn to a romantic self-help guru? Is life imitating art?
Other screen fare: Rock 星, つ星 (2001), She's the One (1996).
The bottom line: Marley & Me's box-office bonanza was all about the dog -- Aniston has yet to prove she can carry a film on her own.
Grade: B
Matthew LeBlanc
Friend: The intelligence and maturity-challenged Joey Tribbiani.
Best role: ロスト in 宇宙 (1998). Sad that this qualified for "best." Joey as sci-fi 宇宙 adventurer was never going to fly.
Worst Role: Ed. A baseball movie co-starring a chimpanzee. (Please insert your own smarmy コメント here.)
次 Role: None apparent, though our bet is on an Ed sequel in which an emu joins the outfield.
Bottom line: How あなた doin' (Matthew)? "I'm living on Matthew Perry's couch."
Grade: F
David Schwimmer
Friend: As the Rachel-obsessed Dr. Ross Geller, Schwimmer was one half of the most nauseatingly tedious on-and-off-again relationships (second place: Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner) in the history of television.
Best role: Madagascar as Melman the giraffe.
Worst role: Madagascar as Melman the giraffe.
Other roles: Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008), The Pallbearer (1996).
次 role: Rapunzel (filming, set for 2010 release). A film on the origins of the classic fairy tale. As long as Schwimmer isn't playing a golden-wigged Rapunzel in the tower, we're game for giving this one a chance.
Bottom line: With a grating, nasally voice and the mopey eyes only a dead and blind mother could love, Schwimmer was never a natural fit for Hollywood -- with the exception of grating, nasally-voiced giraffes with mopey eyes. Bring on Madagascar 3!
Grade: D+
Courteney Cox
Friend: Monica Geller: the clean-freak, control-freak and otherwise freak-centric sister of Ross.
Best role: Scream. Cox played reporter Gayle Weathers in this highly original send-up of the slasher genre that spawned a franchise.
Worst role: Scream 2, Scream 3.
Other roles: 3000 Miles to Graceland (2001), Bedtime Stories (2008).
次 role: Scream 4 (2010).
Bottom line: Unless the Scream franchise can be stretched into Cox's geriatric years, her big screen career seems like nothing to shout about.
Grade: C
Lisa Kudrow
Friend: The dim-witted, eccentric, talentless musician Phoebe. Think of Joey's aforementioned challenges, then hit his character in the head with a hammer three times, then magnify によって 10. But Phoebe did give us the "tune" Smelly Cat.
Best role: Wonderland. Kudrow played the estranged wife of legendary porn 星, つ星 John Holmes, who became the prime suspect in one of L.A.'s most notorious multi-murders.
Worst role: Dr. Dolittle 2 (2001). What else can あなた say about a role that calls on あなた to voice an endangered くま, クマ that is equally ill-fated to be able to communicate with Eddie Murphy.
Other roles: Hotel for イヌ (2009), Analyze This (1999), Analyze That (2002), Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion (1997).
次 role: Bandslam (August 2009). The story of a young, fledgling rock band entering a battle of the bands. We're guessing Kudrow plays someone's mom.
Grade: C+
Source: nationalpost.com