Reviewed by Gordon Roach. Viewed at SBIFF 2015.<\/p>\n
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Matt Walsh creator of UCB improv theatre brings us a film akin to a Larry David esq. style\u00a0shoot, where the writer\/director gives the actors about two paragraphs of material to set up the scene and let them improvise the majority of the dialogue. This plays really well and holds cohesiveness as a feature film with only a few slip ups of awkwardness where the you can tell the actors really going for a stretch.<\/p>\n
Most of this improvisational brilliance comes from inside the films lead,\u00a0Brian Husky’s office, where his patients sit in a recliner\u00a0spewing out their problems to this self made\u00a0hypnotist that has written a slew of therapy books (self\u00a0published)\u00a0along with a\u00a0Steve Brule type DVD video. A lot of comedians guest spot as patients including the hilarious Nick Kroll, Natasha Leggero, and Rob Huebel. A lot of UCB regulars fill up the\u00a0screen including Seth Morris and Adam Pally doing what they do best. TVs Andy Daily shines as one of the san fernando valley homeowners who’s\u00a0overly protective of\u00a0his neighborly well being. Horatio Sans also is a major player in the film attending the premiere smelling of ganja and giving me a brief chat about improv during the Q&A.<\/p>\n
The films plot is about as thin as you could expect an improvised film to be, a lonely hypnotist cannot deal with the reality of his wife leaving him for being\u00a0too\u00a0encompassed\u00a0in his practice\u00a0as a\u00a0therapist\u00a0to\u00a0act as a father or friend. Some of the scenes feel forced, for instance when Brain Huskey goes to his handyman Horatio Sans house for company, these characters\u00a0don’t seem to feel believable or have real palpable qualities to them. Go see this film for the craft of Improv if your interested in the genre. If not it’s got some laughs and a lovely alternative comedic cast that are fun to see playing with fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Reviewed by Gordon Roach. Viewed at SBIFF 2015. Matt Walsh creator of UCB improv theatre brings us a film akin to a Larry David esq. style\u00a0shoot, where the writer\/director gives the actors about two paragraphs of material to set up the scene and let them improvise the majority of the dialogue. This plays really well […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36906,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,255],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films","category-santa-barbara-film-festival-2015"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/36906"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}