The Drop
The Drop
Starring Anna Konkle, Jermaine Fowler, Jillian Bell, Utkarsh Ambudkar
Directed by Sarah Adina Smith
Starring Anna Konkle, Jermaine Fowler, Jillian Bell, Utkarsh Ambudkar
Directed by Sarah Adina Smith
What happens when frienemies come together to celebrate the wedding of two of their own? What happens when an unspeakable accident happens that threatens to darken the entire proceedings? What happens when a married couple is on the rocks because he wants a kid but she doesn't? What happens when Hulu funds a comedy that's completely, utterly, wholly, absolutely, undeniably, unequivocally, unashamedly, wholeheartedly not at all funny from the first moment to the last? These questions will echo into eternity as "The Drop" seems to have dropped more than a baby in this less-than-lackluster "comedy."
Married couple Mani (Jermaine Fowler) and Lex (Anna Konkle) are heading to the islands to celebrate their friend's wedding, and everything seems like perfect marital bliss. Both are excited to hopefully have a kid of their own someday, and their reunion with their college friends is met with joy - until Lex is given a baby belonging to one half of the soon-to-be-bride. When a bee buzzes by, she instinctively tries to swat at it, and in the process drops the baby on the concrete ground. Thankfully the baby is fine, but this sets off a series of events that threaten to permanently end the friendships as well as possibly Mani and Lex's marriage forever.
The less to say about "The Drop" the better. It's a movie that, after it ended, I immediately watched another movie because I was worried that if I was to die in the interim, the last movie I would've ever seen in my entire life was "The Drop." It's a little over ninety minutes of a trainwreck that you can look away from, because it's the most lackluster trainwreck in the history of trainwrecks. Once or twice did I put the effort to give a very halfhearted humph of a laugh, but the rest of the time I was wondering why this movie was breathed into existence in the first place if not to be used as a torturing device for terrorists. They'll be spilling all the beans before the baby hit the ground.
It's a shame because there's a lot of comedic talent on the screen. Anna Konkle ("PEN15"), Jermaine Fowler ("Coming 2 America"), Jillian Bell ("Rough Night"), Utkarsh Ambudkar ("Marry Me"), and Joshua Leonard ("The Blair Witch Project" which was actually more funny than this) all don't seem to even want to be there, as their delivery is entirely stoic and flatlined, and it seemed like they improvised most of the script. There could've been some funny repercussions of Lex's accident, but it became too melancholy to be funny, and the conversations just went around in circles like the water swirls when you flush the toilet (with both having the same impact, flowing down the drain). Then there's long moments of characters just standing around and not saying anything, and you can literally hear the crickets die of boredom. There's few films out there that are completely devoid of anything, and "The Drop" is one such film.
The Score: D-
Married couple Mani (Jermaine Fowler) and Lex (Anna Konkle) are heading to the islands to celebrate their friend's wedding, and everything seems like perfect marital bliss. Both are excited to hopefully have a kid of their own someday, and their reunion with their college friends is met with joy - until Lex is given a baby belonging to one half of the soon-to-be-bride. When a bee buzzes by, she instinctively tries to swat at it, and in the process drops the baby on the concrete ground. Thankfully the baby is fine, but this sets off a series of events that threaten to permanently end the friendships as well as possibly Mani and Lex's marriage forever.
The less to say about "The Drop" the better. It's a movie that, after it ended, I immediately watched another movie because I was worried that if I was to die in the interim, the last movie I would've ever seen in my entire life was "The Drop." It's a little over ninety minutes of a trainwreck that you can look away from, because it's the most lackluster trainwreck in the history of trainwrecks. Once or twice did I put the effort to give a very halfhearted humph of a laugh, but the rest of the time I was wondering why this movie was breathed into existence in the first place if not to be used as a torturing device for terrorists. They'll be spilling all the beans before the baby hit the ground.
It's a shame because there's a lot of comedic talent on the screen. Anna Konkle ("PEN15"), Jermaine Fowler ("Coming 2 America"), Jillian Bell ("Rough Night"), Utkarsh Ambudkar ("Marry Me"), and Joshua Leonard ("The Blair Witch Project" which was actually more funny than this) all don't seem to even want to be there, as their delivery is entirely stoic and flatlined, and it seemed like they improvised most of the script. There could've been some funny repercussions of Lex's accident, but it became too melancholy to be funny, and the conversations just went around in circles like the water swirls when you flush the toilet (with both having the same impact, flowing down the drain). Then there's long moments of characters just standing around and not saying anything, and you can literally hear the crickets die of boredom. There's few films out there that are completely devoid of anything, and "The Drop" is one such film.
The Score: D-
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