Flirting with Disaster

Pros: Casting was superb all around
Cons: Predictable at times

Monday evening I was fortunate to sit through Flirting With Disaster shown on USA Network. The names on the screen appearing in this movie were the indicator for me that I would like this movie. Ben Stiller and Patricia Arquette, known as Mel...

Pros: An Excellent, Offbeat Comedy from David O. Russell with Great Ensemble Cast.
Cons: Some Might Not Enjoy the Film's Offbeat Tone.

Since releasing the 1994 indie sex-comedy “Spanking the Monkey”, filmmaker David O. Russell was touted as one of the brightest filmmakers in independent films. It would be an amazing career that he would have when in 1999, he released the highly ...

Pros: Patricia Arquette
Cons: Too plot-driven for its own good.

This film is so plot-driven and relentlessly acrobatic with it's schematics and motivations that each time the narrative threads are explained and advanced (SIMULTANEOUSLY) you have to juggle all the various strands so much that your mind freezes up with...

Pros: Manic comic performances
Cons: Sometimes too silly

Flirting With Disaster continues the tradition of the independent ensemble comedy by combining intellectual humor that’s part Woody Allen, part Kevin Smith and part slapstick. Its cast mixes a generation of competent performers (Ben Stiller, Tea Leoni...

Pros: Hilarious
Cons: Sexual Subject Matter, not for kids

This movie starts with a bang and sent me off into hysterics after I was glued to the set for a Ben Stiller comedy that wasn't all about Ben Stiller (even though the plot surrounded him). This is Stiller's best work, and Patricia Arquette, as his wife...

Pros: Excellent casting and great storyline
Cons: None at all!

"Flirting With Disaster" is the reason ensemble comedies are missing in Hollywood today. It is the rare film that can take a cast such as this one and make each actor so terribly funny in the process that the story itself doesn't suffer from the...

Pros: An amazing cast that takes comedy to new heights.
Cons: Not as fun the second time around. Loses steam towards the end.

I recently saw FLIRTING WITH DISASTER again for the first time since it came out in the theater. I remember laughing my pants off at the antics of Stiller and company as he sets off on a road trip to discover who his real parents are. It was still funny...

Pros: hilarious, great dialog, perfect cast, unpredictable storyline
Cons: None

Did you ever watch a movie and wonder what the heck the filmmaker was thinking. Making Clerks a black and white film or a good foreign film that decided not to dub English. But then you realize at the end of the film that it is perfect the way it is and...