Starring a clean-shaven Zach Galifianakis, it's about the history of America's (and the DL's) favorite fad...Beanie Babies. Costarring Elizabeth Banks, Parker Posey, and Sarah Snook.
From the description
[quote] Ty Warner was a frustrated toy salesman until his collaboration with three women grew his idea into the biggest toy craze in history.
Zach looks totally different without the beard.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 10 | June 22, 2023 7:34 PM |
My mistake, I watched the trailer and thought Parker was in it...she's not. Elizabeth as a brunette is a dead ringer for her though!
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | June 22, 2023 5:55 PM |
Fraus thought they could retire to Flarda someday if they could just hoard enough of that pyramid scheme.
Ironically, their brats were allowed nowhere near the toys.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | June 22, 2023 5:55 PM |
Ty and his wife frequented the salon I worked at. He certainly was queeny! I’m also wondering what he’s doing with the Four Seasons.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | June 22, 2023 6:01 PM |
What does it say about our vacant, postmodern cultural wasteland when THIS is greenlit as entertainment?
It's the true story behind...Beanie Babies. They get a goofball comic to play against type, splice in some funky vintage 90s costumes, and add a Jamiroquai song to make it a dazzling mish-mash of NOTHING.
This ain't true crime. It's not a juicy tell-all or a retelling of a scandal or a crime spree. It's just a movie about the schmucks who sold a stuffed toy to a nation so bereft of good taste and real problems that they frenzied themselves trying to collect them all.
The Seventies gave us jarring stories, fictional and true to life, that held up a mirror to our own imperfections and scandals. Think of films like "All the President's Men," and "Network," and "The China Syndrome." Those movies educated the audience on something of enduring social value, and got people talking about the real world. This type of empty pap - THE TRUE STORY OF THAT TOY YOU MILLENNIALS REMEMBER! - will neither educate nor move people. It doesn't even look very juicy, funny, or action-packed. It's a worthless blip of a film that seems to have no real premise, other than "What if the inventor of Beanie Babies was actually a garish little queen in a bad wig?"
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | June 22, 2023 6:02 PM |
<- Well smell you, Mary. We'll try to rig-up a 14-episode limited series based on "War And Peace" for you.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | June 22, 2023 6:14 PM |
It's camp R4. If you're not into it, go back to BritBox.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | June 22, 2023 6:23 PM |
No, it's not camp. It's neither tragically ludicrous nor ludicrously tragic.
It's phony nostalgia involving pop culture blips. It's not a peek behind a curtain, or a black comedy about a flashy but tragic figure. It's as dull as the new Hulu movie about the janitor who invented Flamin' Hot Cheetos, only it has the AUDACITY to stunt-cast and churn out a trailer that makes the invention of the Beanie Baby look like The Italian Job. Where's the suspense? Where's the fall from grace? Where's the cocaine addiction, or spousal abuse, or juicy drama?
At least the stuff about John Delorean had some juicy courtroom scenes. And at least Ryan Murphy's pap about the OJ Trial and Andy Cunanan had better production values and involved actual murders.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | June 22, 2023 6:42 PM |
Galifianakis does look totally different beardless, like John Goodman, Junior.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | June 22, 2023 7:17 PM |
No R8, that's the Beanie Bubbeleh
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | June 22, 2023 7:34 PM |
