The Beach Bum was an excruciating experience despite a dedicated lead performance. This movie is about Moondog, a rebellious stoner and author, who lives large. Matthew McConaughey gives a great performance. I absolutely hated his character, who was always drunk and high but he played it perfectly. Snoop Dog is playing himself, but he had a couple of funny lines. Isla Fisher is wasted and given nothing to do. Jonah Hill is fine in a small supporting role but his character is pointless. Stefania LaVie Owen gives a good performance and they set up the possibility for an interesting character but nothing ever comes of it. Martin Lawrence is by far the best part of this movie. His role is small, but it brought me the only real laugh in the whole movie. Harmony Korine’s directing is competent but unspectacular. The movie looks good visually but he misses numerous opportunities for fun drug trip sequences. The script for this movie is absolutely atrocious. There is no real story or character development for anyone. This movie is classified as a comedy, but I only laughed once and chuckled a couple of times. At 95 minutes the movie dragged on for so long I could not wait for it to end. Overall The Beach Bum is a movie that I cannot recommend to anyone despite its great lead performance.
3/10
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