Alibi.com (2016)
2/10
Tired, distasteful and totally not funny
22 April 2017
Warning: Spoilers
I went to see the movie with good expectations, because the basic idea of a company providing alibis for people who have some skeletons in the closet had so much potential for good situation comedy. I couldn't be more wrong. The movie combines "comedy of errors" situations we've seen a million times (e.g. Husband tries to hide from his wife with his lover, and voila, the wife shows up at the same hotel) with gags that are both predictable and disgusting (cat harassing a man's exposed hanging testicles, three guys hiding under the bed while a fourth one jerks off on the bed, a guy on a wine tasting drinks other people's spit etc.). It is not saved even by the forced references to Star Wars (two guys fighting with colored neon-tubes) or Assassin's Creed. The movie even jokes about things like the migrant crisis (which is a sensitive topic today in Europe, especially in France) and a little boy taken to institution. Comedy, right? I would not recommend this movie to anyone who thinks that humor is above the level of body fluids and tired "embarrassing" situations.
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