Wednesday, December 17, 2008

The Rated-R Comedy Pt. III

This is the last part of my Rated-R Comedy rant. The truth is, some may have the idea that if a comedy is rated-r, it's raunchy and only serves to get cheap laughs. Cheap laughs meaning foul language or obscene scenes are only inserted to get a giggle, chuckle or laugh-out-loud reaction without really contributing to the story. This may be true in certain lackluster flicks like The Brothers Solomon but there are far many more great movies like Baby Mama that utilizes that Rated R title with very much purpose. The cast to these movies have considerably become star-filled. As with Robert Downey Jr's role in Tropic Thunder in which one of the best lines ever is given:

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