To the sequel Another little favor released in prime video we can compare it with The accountant 2now in cinemas: these are two second parts, both late, two prepaid surprise hits, perhaps of the few outside the scope of the great film franchises and in that abyss in danger that we could call “middle productions”.
The entanglement comedy that Paul Feig put at the service of his two actresses, Blake Lively y Anna Kendrick, It was a bit of criticism and public with a convoluted mystery in which, while complying with the public sector of the public still interested in a The devil wears Prada (Or that now you can not call “girls for girls”) with vertiginous dialogues and clichés on femininity, Feig and Lively have fun with a parody of the different stereotypes of blonde and the most folletinesco classic melodrama, adding absolutely unnamed and shameless turns in its final part.
But, indeed, A little favor And its late sequel, released in Prime Video, are the pure definition of “Chick Flick”, only sifted this time for the Streaming audience of daggers in the back. The sequel underlines that “Cozy Crime” component to raise an equally firecracker mystery, this time in European decoration, which in a way clouds the result in a slightly lower sequel. What Feig has filmed, or wanted to film (although you have to reach the second and superior time of the film) is a soap opera set in a world of influencers, thunder and a totally wisdom Mediterranean kitsch that stands out in the interpretive details.
It is a pity that, as in so many other Feig films (in reality, almost all), Another little favor Reach the spectator somewhat past duration. In its first half, the film is plagued by secondary characters that will be inoperative for the plot and too useless chachara destined only for fans of the first part. In the second, once the late crime happens, Feig delights offering plans to devour a Blake Lively trying to understand herself while attracting the rest of the cast for himself.
Another little favor It is (another) parody of the classic melodrama clichés taken to the comedy through the Trungo of Telenovela. Lively understands it perfectly, and is tune in different grotesque stations for his American cock: of action heroin to different psychopathologies, aware that all this is a kind of novel for self -conscious deliveries. It is a pity that the film depends so much on its appearance of mystery to fashion film, an aspect where it is revealed totally banal, and rest less in the relationship between its two protagonists, but it manages to provide two hours of pleasant rest with some flashes of genius (the interrogation of Kendrick, its encounter with the cleaner, the appearance of Lively dressed in mourning …).
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