What’s Aged the Worst?
The first 25 minutes; Charles Grodin's hair; Jay Leno's cameo
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- The movie gets better as it goes: the first 25 minutes aren't bad but are probably the weakest part, and from the moment Mitchell goes down it takes off; a host realized how many times they had caught it already in progress on HBO, so the beginning, with him coming in on the pig at the car dealership and a Steven Root cameo, was unfamiliar, a premium-cable experience from a bygone era.
- Chuck Grodin's wig or whatever is going on with his hair, a fuller head than at any point of his career, is called out by a host with an admitted obsession with actors who suddenly have full heads of hair, McConaughey's big flowing locks included; another host, who had Dave on VHS and knows no other Charles Grodin, finds it normal.
- Jay Leno pops into the movie with the 'too many happy meals' punchline about President Mitchell and is just bad; 26 years ago Leno was not funny, even though he was amazing in the 80s, and the whole spiel about his Letterman-era legend is saved for Craig later.