Identity Thief

Sarxos

Universal are releasing a new comedy soon from Seth Gordon (director of Horrible Bosses and King of Kong) called Identity Thief. The film stars Jason Bateman as mild-mannered businessman Sandy Patterson who travels from Denver to Miami to confront the deceptively harmless-looking woman who has been living it up after stealing Sandy's identity, played by Melissa McCarthy.

This looks like it could be a laugh as the central pairing are quite funny.

Release Date: March 22nd, 2013

JP Liz V1

I like the lead actors but I'd say the best "funny" laughs are in the trailer

They say never judge a book by it's cover but based on the trailer this has all the hallmarks of being one of 2012's worst wide releases. I doubt it's much of a comedy and from the trailer I get the impression that it's one of those films that will try to have the viewer sympathies with a character who is completely immoral and just a really awful person. The fact that it's close to 2 hours in length is enough for me to go out of my way to avoid it, that and the fact that I cannot stand McCarthy who far as I'm concerned is one of the least humorous people ever to grace our screens.

TheIrishGrover

Jebus Christ. I just can't get past that poster!!!!!! just the poster makes me want to avoid this film like the plague

Frisbee

Big fan of Jason Bateman but I'll be avoiding this one like the plague, looks awful.

krudler

Isnt this just an episode of Friends? where someone had Monica's credit cards and was living it up on them?

JP Liz V1

Doing the business at the US box office and seems to be biggest hit of the year so far :eek:

Loughc

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Doing the business at the US box office and seems to be biggest hit of the year so far :eek:

This upsets me

meoklmrk91

This movie absolutely blows, not one laugh did it get from me, avoid like the plague!

Florintina

i cant wait see this looks really funny

Letsdoit

meoklmrk91 wrote: »

This movie absolutely blows, not one laugh did it get from me, avoid like the plague!

Seen it i thought some parts were very funny but saying that only 3-4 people were Only laughing

tupac_healy

Big No for me on this one! Seen the trailers and that was more than enough

Skerries

Just Dont.

iba

IMO - terrible movie, 2 or 3 out of 10 at the most.

GAAman

iba wrote: »

IMO - terrible movie, 2 or 3 out of 10 at the most.

You are being at least 3 points too kind to this monstrosity....

iba

GAAman wrote: »

You are being at least 3 points too kind to this monstrosity....

yes you are right

JP Liz V1

This is awful only redeeming feature was Robert Patrick

candy-gal1

I actually really enjoyed this, nicely entertaining, a few little bit teary moments, and a good few laughs! Plus Melissa MacCarthy is all kinds of awesome, loved her since her role in Bridesmaids! Would go see it again tbh!

Banjaxed82

Not as bad as I thought. Still pretty sh!te though. The leads are just about holding this bag of piss together. The odd slapstick laugh, but that's about it.

The makers took Trains, Planes & Automobiles, Midnight Run and the episode of Friends where chick (fat chick and all) steals Monica's identity and mashed it all together. Fair play to the filmmakers, they did nothing to hide this fact. Brazen or what.