Chevalier (2015) -.
The whole thing felt like it was a blokes weekend away to get homosexual with each other and away from their wives. There was no specific evidence of that, although Dimitris was definitely up for it, but it just had a huge homoerotic undertone all the way through it.
That in itself was strange, as it was supposed to be a macho, testosterone filled battle between friends to see who the best man was, but the game in and of itself was a bit weird too and I would say very difficult to actually quantify in a real way. The challenges were all quite unusual and didn't utilise much of the tried and tested manly competitions like those featured in films like 'Grown Ups' (2010), which is the only film that I can really compare this one to.
As such, it didn't have quite the hilarity that I was expecting, not even the usual quirky European style of humour and it was generally just a bit odd instead.
The nudity, although usually something that I enjoy wasn't really that necessary and actually in this case I think that less would definitely have been more. It would have been funnier not to see it.
Dimitris was like an overgrown child, I think that one of them was either Bulimic or didn't like to admit that he got sea sick and then there's the one with the erection issue. All of these things could have been hilariously turned in to something, but the gags were all just a bit half arsed or weird and I'm not sure that I understood the ending at all or even who won the challenges.
Perhaps it lost something in translation, but I'm not sure that the way that it came across can be entirely blamed on that if at all. Let's just say that I didn't get it and leave it at that.
253.66/1000.
The whole thing felt like it was a blokes weekend away to get homosexual with each other and away from their wives. There was no specific evidence of that, although Dimitris was definitely up for it, but it just had a huge homoerotic undertone all the way through it.
That in itself was strange, as it was supposed to be a macho, testosterone filled battle between friends to see who the best man was, but the game in and of itself was a bit weird too and I would say very difficult to actually quantify in a real way. The challenges were all quite unusual and didn't utilise much of the tried and tested manly competitions like those featured in films like 'Grown Ups' (2010), which is the only film that I can really compare this one to.
As such, it didn't have quite the hilarity that I was expecting, not even the usual quirky European style of humour and it was generally just a bit odd instead.
The nudity, although usually something that I enjoy wasn't really that necessary and actually in this case I think that less would definitely have been more. It would have been funnier not to see it.
Dimitris was like an overgrown child, I think that one of them was either Bulimic or didn't like to admit that he got sea sick and then there's the one with the erection issue. All of these things could have been hilariously turned in to something, but the gags were all just a bit half arsed or weird and I'm not sure that I understood the ending at all or even who won the challenges.
Perhaps it lost something in translation, but I'm not sure that the way that it came across can be entirely blamed on that if at all. Let's just say that I didn't get it and leave it at that.
253.66/1000.