How is this a comedy? Dark or any other...

Fak!! Can't agree with you more piece of $hit

You must be a child who lacks the refined palate necessary to appreciate the nuance represented in this movie, because it was shot on film. Maybe try watching it with your eyes instead next time and then you'll get it.

I had fun watching it, sour puss. I was entertained, apparently you watch too many edited for drama reality TV shows. You sound like you hate the film because you thought the reality show was a game show where Effie or Jason loses. They both literally said in a recent interview that the show was extremely edited at took almost everything out of context.

Everyone worked their asses off, and I commend them all. You apparently don't understand the hard work and dedication it takes to see out a vision in your tiny little brain.

Yeah I went there, so sue me. I'll defecate on your car! I kid, I kid.
Everyone and their little brother is a movie critic/genre definer.

Enjoy the art for the art., not because someone told you how to enjoy it, sheep, when will they learn? Oh never, because they are bloody sheep!

I laughed a little bit, but not like Effie did on the show when she saw it! He's one of those filmmakers that think they're geniuses and we don't know fine art, but actually are so full of it!

signed,
Tony M.

Couldn't agree more!

It's very much a comedy. It's just a meta comedy, where it's clear the funny things aren't the movie, but what went into the making of it.

I guess the actual story was about Fiona - ostensibly the dutiful daddy's girl and obsequious trophy-wife-to-be - who in the end out-muscles her overbearing father and out-manipulates her conniving fiancée. (Though as "noted" on PG, it's pretty hard to buy her evolving so much in 24 hours without much explanation of why the lunacy around her is forging such a tougher cookie.)

Against that we have the haphazard comic relief in the form of the banter between the brothers, the "outrageous" antics of Leonard, and the meltdown of the father.

So in short, the "comedy" was a distracting sideshow to the underdeveloped story. It was a mess.

Agreed; it simply wasn't funny. And yet some insist on labeling it a "farce." No, not even farcical; it was one of those movies that I knew was considered a comedy only because they told me it was supposed to be funny.

Which brings up the scene in the final episode of PGL, when Effie laughing hysterically. I think that's a good example of why the opinions of those involved in a production should be given zero credence. She was able to project things she knew and had witnessed onto the scene; the regular audience could not, and were left to ask "Just what the @#$% does she think is so &*(#$^@ funny? Surely not the line 'Someone has defecated on the credenza.'"

The plot was unoriginal, the character development was non-existent, the humor wasn't funny, and the most interesting characters were under-utilized. It probably should have remained a short... though I now wonder about the reactions we saw when they showed the original, way back in Episode 1 or 2 of PGL.

And as for the director... though I can judge him only by what I saw in PGL, what I saw there was someone who was never told "no" when he was a child. When he wanted something, he got it, and so he never learned to adapt to not being spoiled once he got out in the real world. Even when he got what he wanted, unless he got EVERYTHING, it was the same as nothing.

That was painfully obvious when he got mad when he learned that Effie had saved some money; he wanted that money to do a second take on that lame car crash scene. BUT, he also got mad because that money that she saved wasn't enough! It was also evident in this (paraphrased) exchange:

Effie: "We can do some re-shoots!"
Mann: "Great!"
Mann (a little later): "We need to re-shoot this scene and this scene and this scene and the car crash and..."
Effie: "We can't do ALL of that! We don't have the money. You can re-shoot SOME scenes."
Mann (pouting): "She said we could do re-shoots, and now she says we can't. She lied."