"The Interview" probably should have been titled, "Dumb and Dumber's North Korean Adventure." James Franco plays a successful TV host named Dave Skylark, who specializes in stupid celebrity interviews: "McConaughey was seen f'ing a goat. We GOTTA get him on the show... AND his goat!" Seth Rogan plays Aaron Rapaport, who produces Dave's show. When they learn that Kim-Jong-un (played by Randall Park), the dictator of North Korea is a big fan, they arrange to go to North Korea for an interview. The CIA has other plans and hopes to turn the interview into an assassination plot. Complications ensue when Skylark is hoodwinked by the dictator, who wishes to present himself as a misunderstood good guy, and Rapaport becomes emotionally involved with Kim's publicist, a beautiful woman named Sook (Diana Bang), who is not all she seems.
Prior to the interview, Kim-Jong-un decides to impress Skylark by showing him his expensive automobile and tank collection. He's particularly proud of one antique tank and boasts, "This was given to my grandfather by Stalin." Skylark smugly replies, "In my country, it's pronounced Stallone." Yep, that's my favorite line.
The Interview is a mildly entertaining comedy, although the last scenes are more in the action-adventure line, when the two men, running for their lives, must escape North Korea. Franco and Rogan have their comedy shtick down pat, but the movie mainly works due to the exceptional performance of Randall Park as the dictator (, who is obviously brighter and better looking than the man he portrays).
SONY was silly to cave in to North Korean demands to pull the movie, or perhaps, SONY just wanted to milk it for more free publicity so that everyone will race to see it when it eventually goes into general release.
Prior to the interview, Kim-Jong-un decides to impress Skylark by showing him his expensive automobile and tank collection. He's particularly proud of one antique tank and boasts, "This was given to my grandfather by Stalin." Skylark smugly replies, "In my country, it's pronounced Stallone." Yep, that's my favorite line.
The Interview is a mildly entertaining comedy, although the last scenes are more in the action-adventure line, when the two men, running for their lives, must escape North Korea. Franco and Rogan have their comedy shtick down pat, but the movie mainly works due to the exceptional performance of Randall Park as the dictator (, who is obviously brighter and better looking than the man he portrays).
SONY was silly to cave in to North Korean demands to pull the movie, or perhaps, SONY just wanted to milk it for more free publicity so that everyone will race to see it when it eventually goes into general release.