Beanbioca As Good As It Gets

Dirtylogy It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Lidia Draper Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Dillon Schohr The mocumentary film genre started to blossom in the 1980's with Christopher Guest's This is Spinal Tap. Which is one of my favorite comedies. Then after about 1985 mocumentaries died off. Until, Sacha Baron Cohen started the genre back up, with his successful hit Borat. Now comes Dax Shepard's attempt in the mocumentary world with Brother's Justices. Brother's Justice is the mocumentary that follows Dax Shepard, who has left the comedy world, and is trying to make a martial arts movie, that he wrote. He starts pitching the script without giving any plot details, so everyone thinks he is crazy for trying to make this film. The mocumentary is filled with great celebrity cameos from Jon Favreau, Tom Arnold, Bradley Cooper, David Koechner, Michael Rosenbaum, and Ashton Kutcher. I found this mocumentary to be extremely funny. Most of it was shot in 2006, and then progresses throughout the years. This is along the lines of I'm Still Here the mocumentary, that Casey Affleck and Joaquin Phoenix created a year back. It follows an actor who gives up what he is known for to reinvent himself in another way. Brother's Justice is more light- hearted funny, than I'm Still Here is, but is absolutely ridiculous, and insanely hilarious. This is not a film in theaters. It is playing at the Tribeca Film Festival, or is playing on Time Warner Cable's On Demand. I give Brother's Justice an 8 out of 10.

Matt Kracht The plot: A comedian decides to quit making comedies and, instead, become an international martial arts superstar, despite being thoroughly incompetent.There are some funny moments in this movie, but most of them involve the co-stars, rather than the leads. I can see what they were intending, but I'm not really sure that it worked. Much of the movie is meant to be stupid or intentionally bad, which I guess works, but it fails to be funny. The execution just isn't all that great. I think the biggest problem is that they just couldn't find a balance between the self-conscious, ironic, intentionally bad scenes and the funny scenes.It's not horrible, but it's a bit uneven, and there are parts that are a bit slow and boring. It's also got lots of warmed-over Internet memes, like Chuck Norris references, ironic homophobia, ironic homoeroticism, and an ironic appreciation of bad B movies. If you still laugh at Chuck Norris jokes, five years after most of the Internet got tired of them, then this is the movie for you. If you can't imagine living your life without copious amounts of irony, this is the movie for you. If you're a bit tired of all this stuff, then I'd advise you just watch a Christopher Guest mockumentary.

napierslogs A "documentary" about Dax Shepard retiring from comedy so he can pursue his dream of becoming a Martial Arts action star. Seriously. OK, maybe not so seriously. The beginning has Dax and his producing partner Nate Tucker going from agent to lawyer to producers to actors to directors to sell his karate idea "Brother's Justice", well, at this stage it's really just a title. When it's funny, it's very funny.The problem is, when it's not funny, it's not anything. For an hour and a half run time, it's awfully long for a one-joke movie. Because really, that's all this is, one joke about Shepard trying to sell Hollywood on the idea of him becoming an action star in the ilk of Steven Segal. The idea that this documentary is serious is supposed to be funny, but I can't take this seriously. I've seen enough of Shepard in both comedy and drama roles that I know he's not actually this stupid.It's cool that so many Hollywood hot-shots were willing to make themselves look like arrogant jerks for the sake of Dax Shepard and this (documentary? movie? —I don't know what to call it). At least their parts mostly work because Jon Favreau, Ashton Kutcher, Bradley Cooper and Tom Arnold can all do comedy and drama.Ironically, unlike Dax's "successful" comedies like "Employee of the Month" (2006) and "When in Rome" (2010), "Brother's Justice" actually has all the elements of a good story: a sympathetic character (who doesn't want to see a good guy succeed in Hollywood?), conflict (Dax thinks it's a good idea, Hollywood does not), drama, comedy, and then the idea that friendship rises above everything. But none of that really works here.Unintentionally, "Brother's Justice" just proves that Dax Shepard is best suited for comedy, or maybe that's its entire purpose. I never was sure if I was supposed to take this seriously or as one long joke. I'm sorry Dax, but I will always highly value your dramatic work in "Parenthood" and "The Freebie" (2010).

devin-75 No really? No seriously, really? this was so stupid I can't even imagine someone paying money to produce this. I saw it (festival) cause i like some of the cast (jon and Bradley), but I never heard of the lead. Then I came here to IMDb to see what else this guy has been in an then... I understood. Employee of the month. Classic comedy there. let's go to prison and the freebie sound like good idea's but... wow. maybe I'm being to harsh, it's just i don't have a lot of time to spend watching movies and it gets to me when they are this bad.sorry for anyone involved in the making of this! I only wrote this to save others. Not to bash your work.