Awake not Woke!

Well this went from decent to trash in an instant. The first hour is rather interesting with a look at instant unexpected fame on a normal person as well as a sort of meaning of dreams extension. It can be a little hard to watch sometimes because the main character is such a neurotic, awkward, pathetic person. The humor is more subtle but the story holds your attention and isn't boring. Then at the one hour mark it's like an entirely different writer/director took over and it decided it wanted to make a statement on social media, cancel culture and mob mentality. The problem is every character becomes incredibly annoying and a disgusting person. Everything wrong with the idiocy and over emotional coddling of the Gen Z crowd in on full display. It completely ignores the plethora of legal action and lawsuits he would of been able to bring to bear on these ridiculous people's illegal actions taken against him. His wife suddenly out of nowhere turns on him, takes every opportunity to rail against him and blame him for everything and just generally becomes a horrible person. The ending and last final 10 minutes really goes off the rails and ruins any redeeming value this might of had left. There is a fair amount of DEI and some general feminist nonsense. I don't know what the hell this was trying to be and I don't think the makers of this do either.

Tortuously cringe.

And for an example of the woke part, the "fairy godmother" is a "Black man".

Feels like another russian propaganda movie again. They can't just be a human trafficker; oh, no no, they have to be of a "certain country" 😒. As if we don't have enough russian propaganda movies from the "GREAT AMERICANS." Should've guessed it when I saw Stallone's name on the producer list, even though he wasn't in the movie. Cybertruck's sponsorship for a second. They couldn't find anything else? That is one of the shittiest-looking cars.

Watchable 1987 dark comedy with Richard Dreyfuss and Danny DeVito with some pretty good acting. While there are some really funny moments they are few with more of subtle dramedy style to it. A decent movie but not without some problems. At almost 2 hrs long it starts to drag after a while with not a whole lot happening other than salesmen sitting around talking. I think it could of benefited from a slightly shorter tighter runtime to speed things up a bit. Some character reactions to things seem a little off as well. How many times can these two scream at each other in apparent hatred yet nobody ever throws a punch. After a while it gets a bit grating and you just want one of them to kick the other one's ass and get it over with. There's nothing woke and they do a good job of getting the 60's feel right including all the incredible cars. Still worth a watch just don't expect a laugh out loud movie.