Envy

Review by Jason Gaston

There are these two friends, right? One is a dreamer always thinking of some way to get rich and famous and the other friend never takes chances and always plays it safe, continually chiding his friend’s ideas over and over again. When the dreamer thinks up a spray that makes dog poo disappear he calls it Va-poo-rize and offers his buddy a chance to invest in it which, of course, he refuses and then later regrets when his dreamer friend gets unbelievably rich from his product.

Such progresses the story of Envy starring Jack Black and Ben Stiller a movie that bases its whole plot around poop and, after watching it, I find no shortness of irony in that. This unfunny, airless movie only gets lamer and lamer as the film progresses.

To call Envy half-baked would be complimenting it. I didn’t laugh once at this movie… not once! I can tell that Envy tried to be a black comedy, even though it carried none of the wit or edginess that a black comedy is supposed to carry… well, aside from the whole dog turd thing which is, let’s face it, the stuff that kids movies are made of nowadays.

This movie is awfully unfunny and inexcusably dreary. Let’s face it, children, if Christopher Walken playing a spacey hobo can’t inject life into a comedy, it’s over and done with.

I only wish that va-poo-rize was real… then we could spray it on this movie and make it disappear.