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Friday, September 12, 2008
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Respect the janitor.If you've ever wondered why Saturday Night Live is currently one of the worst comedy programs on network television, prepare yourself for some serious schooling. Former SNL writer T. Sean Shannon's abysmal 2008 comedy Harold is all the higher education you'll ever need on the subject. The film, which stars Spencer Breslin, Ally Sheedy, and, yes, Cuba Gooding, Jr., is a long, tedious 90-minute joke at the sole expense of its dopey central character. Breslin plays Harold, a curiously pathetic 8th grade loser who just so happens to suffer from male pattern baldness, an affliction which also seems to include an unhealthy interest in Matlock, Murder She Wrote, and questionable 70's fashion. The story is essentially nothing more than a series of loosely connected skits centered around our hero's misadventures through high school -- by way of George Costanza. However, the performers are not to blame for these gross miscalculations; Shannon's script just isn't sharp enough to carry this lonely little gag, leaving his quality cast to deliver a tasteless buffet of humorless material. Baldness, apparently, is all you need to induce laughter. Once that jape has been systematically run into the ground, you'll discover that Harold's just another miserable teenager. Pretend he doesn't exist.
Recipe For Disaster: One Genuinely Humorless Script + Stale Direction + What Won't Cuba Do For A Dollar
Fun With Favors: See how many SNL cast members you can count throughout the entire picture.
Then take pity on them.
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Sometimes I wondered what happened to Ally Sheedy.. just not enough to look her up on IMDB.
Now I know.
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Haha, that's great.
Thanks for checking this one out for me. I knew I needed to find out if this was worth watching. Thanks for taking the bullet.
I should have known it would be bad considering it was conceived by one of SNL's so-called "writers." I'm just not very good at fighting off curiosity.
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