DIRECTOR: Judd Apatow STARRING: Amy Schumer, Bill Hader, Brie Larson, Colin Quinn, Josh Segarra, John Cena, Dave Attell, Vanessa Bayer, Tilda Swinton, Randall Park, Jon Glaser, Ezra Miller, Evan Brinkman, Mike Birbiglia, Norman Lloyd, Bill Hader, LeBron James, Daniel Radcliffe, Marisa Tomei USA 2015
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Trainwreck is a Judd Apatow film, and is another slap in the face for everyone who thinks that comedies have to be stupid, full of easy laughs and without a shred of cleverness. Apatow trademark is always there, even if the movie is sometimes hard to understand,
he achieves a certain shade of freshness and intelligence, bringing those common and funny elements of life itself to the movie.
Well, this is a traditional romantic comedy about life, with the great Amy Shumer on the
leading role as a strong, smart and modern woman, full of issues about commitment and love, but ready to bring down this everyday sexism and double standards society. As a matter of fact, Amy is the Trainwreck. It’s powerful, yet troubled, characters like Amy that show us a bit how hard real life really is.
Do you guys remember 40 Year Old Virgin? Knocked Up? This is 40? Funny People? Freaks and Geeks? Ok, Trainwreck might be the opposite of all that, but they all share the same elements, they’re all comedies about growing up, bringing perspective into life,
relationships and commitment.
Trainwreck brings also an exciting choice of cast, where we have the neurotic and amazing weird Tilda Swinton, the always also weird Ezra Miller, the great Jonh Hader as the A-list sensible doctor, Brie Larson as the positive sister and all sorts of cameos, from LeBron James, Amar’e Stoudmire, John Cena to Marisa Tomei, Daniel Radcliffe, Matthew Broderick and even Marv Albert.
This is classic New York noisy and chaotic comedy, Amy erratic and funny character is perhaps the Annie Hall of nowadays, but Judd Apatow is still Judd Apatow, once again showing that game changing for him is very easy to achieve.