THE MARC PEASE EXPERIENCE (2009)

Directed By: Todd Louiso
Written By: Todd Louiso & Jared Koskoff
Cinematography By: Tim Suhrstedt
Editor: Julie Monroe 

CAST: Ben Stiller, Jason Schwartzman, Anna Kendrick, Jay Paulson, Ebon

Moss-Bacharach

Not as bad as ENVY but still very disappointing.

I can see why the film was released for one week and dumped straight to DVD. But really shouldn’t the studio have known this wouldn’t work in the script stage. The film feels like a treatment that needs to be expanded on while being written.

Not exactly a comedy Dream Team as the previous film mentioned but I would expect better from a film with both Ben Stiller and Jason Schwartzman.

The film is about Marc Pease who had stage fright and ran away during a high school production of the wiz who seems to be stuck in arrested development from his high school years as he dates a girl in high school drops by the school so much everyone knows him he still thinks Ben Stiller’s character is his mentor though he avoids him all the time he is even selling his house so he can pay for recording a album with his acapella group he’s had since high school. But now as the schools production of The Wiz get’s closer his life slowly falls apart.

The main problem is, where is the comedy? This film is supposed to be a comedy but it’s not funny there doesn’t even seem to be any jokes. I think there is humor in it but it never comes out.

I don’t exactly know why Ben stiller is in it he really has nothing to do and looks bored and tired I don’t know if he just wanted to help the production by being in it. Because the film really gives him nothing to do. Which when I found out he filmed his role in 2 weeks it came as no surprise.

Jason Schwartzman At least puts a lot of energy into his performance so at least he is trying.

One of the major flaws with this film is as noted before there is nothing to watch really it’s not drama it’s not comedy so what is it. It’s unfocused the little plot there is needs to be expanded upon to make a actual film at least a interesting one. The film could have gone in so many directions it has a beginning but that seems to be it. I only really enjoyed one scene and that is the performance at the end of the Wiz. That is everything the film should have been funny, energetic, flashy.

GRADE:  F