REVIEW: The Hustle, A Bad Movie And Unnecessary Remake
We saw ‘The Hustle’. That’s it. Here’s the review…
Jeff (18/100): ‘The Hustle’ is an unnecessary remake with few laughs and a prime example of Hollywood’s originality issue. It’s always a shame to see the efforts of talented actresses and actors wasted on a bad story and script, and that’s exactly what happens here with Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson.
‘The Hustle’, a remake of the 1988 movie ‘Dirty Rotten Scoundrels’ with Steve Martin and Michael Caine, either lacks creativity in its jokes or butchers its attempts at tweaking jokes from the original movie. This scene is a great example…
The new movie tries to replicate this scene, but, instead, Rebel Wilson is blind and Anne Hathaway’s character tests her lie by feeding her a french fry that she wiped a toilet seat with. I personally enjoy Rebel Wilson’s delivery when she is supplied with a solid script. Unfortunately, the script for ‘The Hustle’ turns Wilson’s character into a walking cliche about her weight or clumsiness. It isn’t creative, it isn’t original and it just isn’t funny. Meanwhile, it’s almost shocking how beneath Anne Hathaway this movie was as a whole. I hate being so negative and mean about a movie, but this truly fails to deliver on every level.
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Usually, with comedies, I can find a common or middle ground in which I can recognize where people would get laughs from during the movie. With ‘The Hustle’, I simply could not. There have been recent complaints about originality in Hollywood and how comic book movies or tentpole franchises have taken over the industry. For me, though, I feel it is the low-effort remakes like ‘The Hustle’ that are taking up slots at the box office and hurting the movie industry.
KenJac (20/100): Admittedly I haven’t seen the source material for this movie, ‘Dirty Rotten Scoundrels’, since I was a kid. That said, I still can’t imagine ‘The Hustle’ does it any justice. It’s lazy, predictable, and irredeemably unfunny.
I’ll start with the pleasant aspects of the movie, the chief of which is that it was over relatively fast. The location scout did a great job because all of the settings were quite stunning. It almost makes me think that co-stars Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson may have just taken the job to have an all-expenses-paid vacation to the French Riviera… makes you think!
Comedically, it’s a total failure. It relies on the most base forms of comedy in goofy accents, drawn-out physical gags, and fat jokes. No thanks! Hathaway and Wilson both seem bored and deliver unenthusiastic performances which I don’t really blame them for considering the script was garbage. Maybe the best performance is one-time Lights, Camera, Barstool guest Timothy Simons who has a killer cameo in the beginning.
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This movie was bad and Officially Not Buttered. Tune in to this Thursday’s Lights, Camera, Barstool for our full review of ‘Aladdin’.
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