In this case, what happened in Vegas should surely have stayed in Vegas. Read More South Korea Hypes Up for ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’įor obvious reasons, the film was not screened in advance for the press, and the sparse audience at a Thursday night theater showing emitted nary a chuckle. As for credited director Andy Fickman ( Parental Guidance), he apparently went AWOL. He also has to bear a large part of the blame since he co-wrote the screenplay. But while the actor has proved his comic skills in previous projects, he’s completely adrift here. James tries hard, very hard, to inject the proceedings with slapstick humor, propelling his large body through endless physical contortions in a fruitless effort for laughs. Labored sequences abound, from Blart’s violent fight with an angry peacock to when, in an effort to raise his sagging blood sugar, he lies underneath a child’s dripping ice-cream cone, lapping up the drops like a baby bird. At one point, Blart blunders into the resort’s long-running stage show Le Reve (ka-ching!), and later Steve Wynn and his wife make a cameo appearance. Read More ‘Wonder Woman’ Movie Finds a New Director (Exclusive)Īnyway, Blart becomes unwittingly embroiled in a plot by the villain and his gang to steal priceless artworks from the Wynn Las Vegas hotel, where the movie was almost entirely filmed and which receives enough product placement to have presumably paid for the film’s obviously low budget. Speaking of running gags, the filmmakers seem convinced that the mere sight of James atop a Segway is inherently amusing, an idea that quickly wears out its welcome. More egregiously, it later turns out that she does indeed find herself unaccountably attracted to the boorish rent-a-cop.
Led to believe that he’ll be the surprise keynote speaker (aren’t these things supposed to be arranged in advance?), he proceeds to alienate everyone around him, including the hotel’s beautiful general manager ( Daniella Alonso) who, in one of the endlessly tiresome running gags, Blart becomes convinced is constantly hitting on him. The plot (or what little there is of it) concerns the titular mall security guard traveling to Las Vegas for a security convention with his 18-year-old daughter ( Raini Rodriguez) in tow. The film’s idea of giving the actor the opportunity to stretch is by having him wear a brown contact lens over one of his normally crystalline blue eyes. Not that they’re anything to write home about either, as led by veteran cinematic bad guy Neal McDonough. Read More Ryan Gosling in Talks to Star in ‘Blade Runner’ Sequel
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