I'm straight up gangster and in case you ponderin' I always keeps one in the chamber.
This is one of the funniest lines I've ever heard in a movie and it's just one of the funny lines from the movie Cedar Rapids.
Basically the story line in a fun way exposes the hypocrisy of Bible thumping businessmen and of course it's an allegory to all of those powerful holier than thou characters that seem to be inundating our life space these days. You know who they are: the wide stance senator in the Minneapolis airport men's room, or the Presidential candiadate with wives and mistresses who advocates frugality while having a multi million dollar line of credit at Tiffany's. Yeah, them. It's all about hypocrisy and selling out oh so cheaply.
The plot takes place in a hotel in the big city of Cedar Rapids where the insurance business is holding a convention that will announce an annual award to the winning insurance firm
We have Ed Helms (The Office, The Hangover) as the 40 year old virgin/non virgin rube having an unrequited love affair with his 7th grade teacher played ideally by Sigourney Weaver.
There is John C. Reilly the profane insurance salesman that the rube is warned by his boss to stay away from.
Anne Heche surprisingly has a meaty role in this movie and she is actually likeable as the soccer mom insurance salesman who's motto is whatever happens in Cedar Rapids stays in Cedar Rapids.
Lastly and the most funny is Isiah Whitlock Jr.(The Wire) who delivers my opening line in this review. He is the quiet bachelor insurance man who is involved in community theatre and is a devoted fan in his words of the HBO series The Wire. He says he plays a pretty convincing Omar from the same series.
This is an adult comedy, thank goodness, and it made me laugh and empathize with these characters because thay are three dimensional and well developed.
Cedar Rapids fell under the radar but it is one of the best comedies and best movies I've seen this year.
See Richard Roeper's review foe some scenes.
Cedar Rapids Review - RichardRoeper.com
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
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