What’s Aged the Worst?
Phone; UFC poster; length; real-name characters; clothes; prosthetic bump; anti-vax stance; webpage terminology; hostile doctor
In the discussion (8)
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- The Sprint Treo close-up and Liddell/Couture poster date the film;132 minutes is too long, with excess Rudd/Mann material and drawn-out improvised scenes.
- More montages could clarify relationships and compress repetitive scenes, beyond Ben’s eventual growing-up montage.
- Using the actors’ real first names now intrudes as those performers became famous; Charlyne Yi and Rogen are inconsistent exceptions.
- Heigl’s flowing tops and low wide jeans, along with the men’s oversized shirts and backward caps, are unflattering period fashion.
- The fake pregnancy bump and Debbie’s anti-vaccination position age badly.
- Repeatedly calling their project a webpage rather than a website sounds implausibly unfamiliar with 2007 internet usage.
- Jeong’s hostile doctor is belatedly added as making the experience of giving birth look particularly unpleasant.
- An ideal 100-to 105-minute cut would shorten labor and remove the draft detour; cutting the earthquake is proposed but resisted because Segel’s cigarette-and-nudity gag is too funny.