Shit just doesn't disappear, it has to go somewhere.

I watched about half of Envy in bits and pieces. As expected, it's not that good. The first part, on the way to Jack Black being super-rich, was actually kind of fun. But then when Ben Stiller starts getting all envious and crazy the wheels kind of come off the wagon. There's just not much here, there's not enough to sustain a movie.

I think it doesn't help that Jack Black doesn't get to do what he does best in this movie. He's so good at being the idiot, obnoxious, lovable guy - and here he's just an idiot lovable guy. With no obnoxiousness his character loses a bit of an edge. I really like Jack Black (especially his work in Tenacious D) but this isn't one of his better efforts.

I'll just have to wait for the next one and see how that one is. Ooh, look at this: IMDB tells me that he's making a movie about Tenacious D and he's in Peter Jackson's next effort, King Kong so there's hope in the future.

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