Frankie Go Boom (Blu-ray) (2012)

FGB is a good first comedic effort for Charle Hunnam. I've read CH had reservations about playing a lead role in a comedy film, but playing the straight character, he was great. it was fun to see him not play a bad ass as he has been cast recently. Ron Perlman is a riot as a transsexual . While I did not find the movie hysterically funny, it is definitely worth watching again.

"How is Jack Knowles seeing a movie of a drunken woman hitting me with her bike helping you get your dream Bruce?" Frankie's (Hunnam) brother Bruce (O'Dowd) has just got out of prison and is back in his life. Frankie is not happy about this. His whole life Bruce has been filming Frankie in the worst possible situations. When Frankie has an embarrassing night with a woman he just met his brother films that too. This simple act spirals out of control and ends up affecting everyone involved, and some who aren't. I'm not sure what I expected from this movie but it wasn't this. The movie is funny and I did laugh a few times but it was different then I thought it would be. The cast is funny and the dialog is funny but it is borderline offensive so be warned if you are easily offended. I don't want to say too much because this is the kind of movie that each scene builds on itself and saying something will ruin the flow but it is funny, just different. Overall, not bad and worth seeing unless you are easily offended. I give it a B-.

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I'm a Charlie Hunnam fan. This is funny! I love funny and everything Charlie. It's funny but there are also interesting aspects of life here. Poor Frankie is the only sane one. I'm always amazed at how different Charlie can look and be in his different roles. Amazing. I wanted to see it in the theater; I did see it online and I'm happy to own it also.

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Me and my daughter really enjoyed this-lotsa laughs! Wished the extras included outtakes...bummer. But the cuts were good...one great decision the director (kudos Jordan Roberts) made was replacing Ron Perlman for the mother in the last phone call scene...not only did it add to the "love story" bit...but it added to the "evening with Phillis" made it look as though they "became close" enough to have a conversation on relationships....hilarious! Loved it!

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I am confused about the hype and raves for this film. It is a wanna-be quirky independent film using trite jokes and unreal situations in a world that doesn't require a release form. We are told that Bruce has spent his life torturing and filming his brother Frankie from the film blurb. We get to see one quick episode, hear about a second one, that really had nothing to do with Bruce and the movie is about a third one that again, Bruce (Chris O'Dowd) just happens to film.

The whole set up and building of characters was done in a very poor fashion. The get together of Frankie(Charlie Hunnam) and Lassie (Lizzy Caplan) was slightly humorous, but there was no good follow up. Bruce was extremely unlikeable. Frankie only slightly less so. The characters overall are meh, even the over the top Ron Pearlman..."call me Phyllis now" tried so hard to be funny, that it wasn't.

This is a sex comedy that lacks the crudeness of successful sex comedies, and lacks the cleverness of a good indie. It is a hybrid that doesn't reproduce. Some may find it amusing, I don't recommend it, even as a rental.

Parental Guide: F-bomb, sex, nudity.

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