Jon Hamm: definitely, with Mad Men and The Town happening at the same time.
Melissa McCarthy is a tough one; The Heat is praised, and this is called her best performance, though her New York Times best-actors-of-the-century listing is debated.
Maya Rudolph: not her apex; her SNL stretch and The Good Place judge run rank higher.
Rose Byrne: no; Neighbors is more likely. Apatow: probably not, since he did not direct it.
For wedding movies it is a finals between My Best Friend's Wedding and this, possibly adding Wedding Crashers.
Paul Feig, who created Freaks and Geeks and made Ghostbusters, definitely peaked here critically and commercially.
For shit scenes in movies, Succession and Harold and Kumar are cited and it deserves a follow-up pod, but this would be the peak; it is agreed as Apex Mountain for diarrhea in a movie.
A Lamar Jackson aside becomes the joke podcast Leave Lamar Alone.
Chris O'Dowd: yes, joked against Thor: The Dark World.
Wilson Phillips peaked in the early 90s, but the film gives them a belated or second Apex Mountain.
The cop is the weak spot of the movie; none of his scenes had come up among the memorable ones, unlike Hamm's perfectly written part.
A friendly cop joking about shooting people would not appear in 2020.
His motivation is unclear: he runs radar traps all day, has an Irish accent, and buys $200 of baking supplies after one night.
In the baking scene he was trying to be sweet but was presumptuous; Chris O'Dowd is Irish and was reportedly meant to be American until they kept his real voice.
Rebel Wilson and Rose Byrne are Australian; O'Dowd and Byrne are good together in Juliet, Naked.
The cop was also one participant's recasting nomination, deferred to that category.
The Apatow formula of a rock bottom with about 27 minutes left and a late rally feels familiar from other movies.
The runtime is too long; movies and documentaries should be the right length, not padded by 20 minutes.
Funny People is loved but clearly 30 minutes too long; Apatow's best scenes come in the first two-thirds.
Agreement that the final third runs long; Apatow throws a great first six innings, joked as a Blake Snow outing.
Giving out puppies as party favors is irresponsible, and Megan keeps them in her van during the party; the scene is worth it, and the pink berets make the callback pay off.
