Movie Review: Fist Fight (2017)

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    Oh boy we’re sailing this ship again, time to try and review a comedy without spoiling anything about it. I mean I can almost guarantee I’ve said this before but there’s only so many ways to say this film is or isn’t funny. So let’s just get through this version of the exact thing again sooner rather than later shall we?

Plot Summary - Andy Campbell (Charlie Day) is a mild mannered english teacher suffering through the last, prank filled, day of school. When history teacher Ron Strickland (Ice Cube) runs out of patience after one of these pranks is played against him, Campbell ends up getting him fired, leaving Strickland to challenge him to a fight after school.

Pros - The fight is pretty worthwhile once the film gets to it. The third act also has probably the funniest moments in the film. Ice Cube as Strickland is easily the best person in the film, because they actually do give his reason for what he’s doing a clear and even kind of inspiring motivation. I’ll admit, I only really know Charlie Day from horrible bosses, but he does pretty well here also. The film overall does actually have more of a story and character arc for our leads as the film progresses than other comedies like this.

Cons - The supporting cast don’t get really that much to do. They’re unfortunately more one dimensional characters and while the actors are fine they’re basically left stranded. The weird thing is they have Jillian Bell as a guidance counselor who is basically just Pam from Archer, minus what makes Pam funny. The first two thirds of the film, while not bad, I wasn’t really laughing, more mildly amused at best.

Final Score - 5/10

It’s a hard call but this is a meh. I truly think that as much as I do like what it was trying to do, if you’re sitting through more than half of a comedy not really laughing, then you kind of have a problem. I’d like to have seen them run with some of the ideas a bit better, and maybe give the supporting cast more to do as well.

Next: I’m either going to do the next suggestion box review, or take a personal day and watch some dvds, which I may or may not review depending on mostly how I feel.

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