Vince Vaughn and John Favreau, the team that
brought us the charming Swingers,
returns for their second outing as
co-producers with an entirely new genre: the
annoying film. Vaughn plays Ricky, the
world's most annoying low-level gangster, and
Favreau plays Bobby, his pal whose job it is
to look annoyed. This probably does not
involve a lot of acting, because Ricky
manages to annoy not only other characters in
the film, but also the real-life,
flesh-and-blood people who inhabit what
Hollywood types like to call "the audience."
If you think you have the emotional
detachment to sit through this kind of thing,
by all means go see Made, as it's
witty and well-acted. Still, it may be a
living testament as to why no one has ever
attempted to make a film whose main intent is
not to entertain, scare or sadden, but rather
to bother, irritate and annoy.