Supporting characters in movies like this.

This is what I call a "bus shelter" movie - one that you see advertised on a bus shelter that appeals to the Friday night popcorn crowd who'll watch anything as long as it's in colour and doesn't have subtitles. (I enjoyed it - it was easygoing hokum).

There are always stereotypical supporting characters - usually roles desperately accepted by TV actors keen to get on the ladder. In this one it was the guy from The Office and the black girl from "Christine", who played the politically correct workplace watchdog.

These characters are always wafer-thin - you can't imagine them existing outside of the lines they have in the movie. The "horny buddy" is a real stereotype - always leching and encouraging the lead to "give her one for me", hoping for a little fallout himself, but not good looking enough to get a girl of his own. He will always have boundless confidence, matched only by his total lack of social skills - no matter how many times he's told to get lost by a girl, he persists with his gauche, crude chat-up lines.

The black girl only existed in this movie to make sexual harassment jokes - it was a real insult of a part. Usually the female friend will also be sexually desperate, but again, not attractive enough herself to have the slightest chance of landing the lead hunk.





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But sings on:
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