A few reviews

[Gaith]

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Larry Gaye: Renegade Male Flight Attendant (2015) (free on Amazon Prime)


I owe my entire awareness of this barely-released flick to a column by legendary (former AV Club) pop culture writer Nathan Rabin. Whom I quote:

I do not laugh easily. “Did this comedy make me laugh even a single time?” is an important benchmark for comedies that a disconcerting amount of would-be laughers never meet. So when a movie makes me laugh out loud at least a dozen times, as Gaye did, I’m inclined to forgive an awful lot, and Gaye has an awful lot to forgive. [...]

Take away the groaningly awful, regressive, desperately unfunny title and you’re left with a 100 minute long comedy about a womanizing, narcoleptic flight attendant who is somehow simultaneously a dithering, oblivious, Leslie Nielsen-type buffoon and preternaturally gifted, who wrestles with daddy issues when not battling a sexy robotic arch-rival played by Rebecca Romijn.

Welp, like Mr. Rabin, I laughed many, many times during this movie, at one point so uproariously I had to hit pause for a good two minutes. I am also a total sucker for Glee's Jayma Mays, who is as hilarious as she is enchanting as the straight (wo)man to the also very funny star Mark Feuerstein.

I surrender.

This is a delightfully stupid and knee-slapping film. If, like me, you love Hot Rod, Your Highness, Fired Up!, Austin Powers 1 and This is the End, I highly recommend this woefully unappreciated and overlooked gem. If, however, you do not enjoy those films and this genre, steer far clear of this one.

Grade: A-. As Mr. Rabin says, it doesn't need to be 100 minutes long, and a sharper ending would have helped, but I loved the whole dang thing, and there is a first-rate gag in the coda that follows the enjoyable if too-safe third act.