Trainwreck

Trainwreck

Rating 8.5 out of 10

When I first saw trailers on this movie I had moderate interest at best.  I have seen the movies writer and star, Amy Schumer, on talk shows and found her kinda funny.  She tends to go with the one joke premise of being loose with the guys.  Her love interest in the movie, Bill Hader,  I didn't care for at all.  I haven't watched Saturday Night Live since the 70's and the couple of other movies I had seen him in he was a bit of a dufus.  Plus I am not a big Lebron James fan.  Was he going to stare at the camera and beat his chest after every line he gets right?   Still there were a couple funny lines in the preview and more to the point it was one my hot date wanted to see.  Ant Man you will have to wait.  I'll sit thru this one.

I'll be damned if this movie didn't make me laugh.  A lot.  I don't think I have seen a movie this year that was as funny or even anything in recent memory.  Amy did a good job of writing.  I'm not sure if this was the first movie she has written or not.  There were a couple times it seemed a little rookie like while most of the movie had one good line after another.

In Trainwreck when Amy was a little girl when her parents were divorcing her sleezeball but likable dad tells her and her sister over and over that people are not meant to have one mate.  It's just not natural.  While her sister goes the traditional path and settles down and has kids.  Amy follows her dads advice and has one night stand after another.  She writes for a low rent National Enquire type magazine that leads with stories like the six ugliest celebrity kids or how to talk your girlfriend into a three way.

When the magazine out of the blue asks her to do an article on a sports medicine doctor that specializes in knee operations for big name sports stars she balks as she knows nothing about sports and cares even less.  The doctor (Hader) turns out to be charming and against her better judgement begins to fall for him.  

The courtship has many funny moments and even a couple sad ones that were well written.  Lots of great sports cameos.  As much as I hate to admit it even Lebron does a good job.  I was entertained.  My only wish is that I had seen it in a big theater of laughing people instead of the early show.  I may have to plunk down a few pesos and see this one again on a weekend night.