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NJ
Funny People" (July 31) -- Director Judd Apatow follows up "The 40-Year-Old-Virgin" and "Knocked Up" with the tale of a veteran joke-teller (Adam Sandler) who copes with news that he's suffering from a fatal illness by mentoring a protege (Seth Rogen) ...
15 mainstream media and 4 bloggers weighed in on a similar topic
6 Months Ago,
Boston Globe says
(in What happens in Vegas is funnier than expected)
CTV.ca
United States
The latest in the wave of post-Judd Apatow Bad Lad comedies, "The Hangover" is rowdy, scurrilous, and, for about three-quarters of its running time, a lot more hilarious than it has any right to be. The characters are stock road-movie stereotypes but ...
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Kansas City Star says
(in 'The Hangover' will make you laugh (and wince) | 3 stars)
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California Chronicle says
(in Lost and Found)
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Cinematical says
(in Interview: 'The Hangover' Director Todd Phillips)
Interview: 'The Hangover' Director Todd Phillips
CA
I love Judd Apatow movies, I love them, and I just read a piece that they showed me, and it said, the most un-Apatow or anti-Apatow or something to that effect, and I know what he means. What he means is that non-sentimental version of that. ...
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Georgia Straight says
(in Summer movies from hippies to Harry Potter)
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Times Online says
(in Todd Phillips explains why The Hangover is a frat pack assembly)
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Norwich Bulletin says
(in Will Pfeifer: 'Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy' is Will ...)
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FWWeekly says
(in Film Shorts)
TX
I Love You, Man (R) This thoroughly charming knockoff of a Judd Apatow comedy is a more persuasive movie about male friendship than Superbad. Paul Rudd plays a real estate salesman who has no close male friends until he meets a fun-loving private ...
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Filmcritic.com says
(in Spring Breakdown)
to the material by the various creative minds behind the humor -- be it the geek love of Judd Apatow, the savage wit of Tina Fey, the inspired idiocy of Will Ferrell and Adam McKay, or the genre-bending genius of Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. ...
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DetNews.com says
(in Grapevine: Sacha Baron Cohen drops in on Eminem)
MI
Speaking of Eminem and the movies, "Superbad" star Jonah Hill let it slip to MTV.com that Em appears in this summer's Judd Apatow -helmed comedy "Funny People." "Funny People," starring Adam Sandler and Seth Rogen , opens July 31. ...
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MTV.com says
(in Jonah Hill Catches Up With New Friend Eminem At MTV Movie Awards)
Washington Post
The pair have become friends through "Funny People," the next Judd Apatow flick starring Adam Sandler. "We just worked together on a little secret project," ...
Grapevine: Sacha Baron Cohen drops in on EminemThe Detroit News
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United Press International says
(in UPI NewsTrack Entertainment News)
Meanwhile, film producer Judd Apatow, known for such movies as "Superbad" and "Pineapple Express," received a Man Kind Award. Other top winners included actress Halle Berry, who was given a Decade of Hotness award; "Borat" comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, ...
And
Vernon Morning Star says
(in Summer lovin')
Summer lovin'
Canada
Judd Apatow, cinema's reigning king of comedy, returns to the director's chair for this film about a comedian (Adam Sandler) who, after discovering that he has cancer, befriends a relatively green stand-up comic (Seth Rogen). ...
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CTV.ca says
(in 'The Hangover' juiced for sleeper stardom)
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The Morning Journal says
(in Serious about summer)
OH
July 24) • “FUNNY PEOPLE”: Can't-miss comedy master Judd Apatow here tries to turn on the poignance, casting Adam Sandler as a successful comic who learns he's dying and trains a young wannbe (Seth Rogen) as his protégé and pal. ...
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First Showing says
(in Jake Kasdan to Direct Sony's Bad Teacher Comedy)
CA
Kasdan wrote and directed Zero Effect and The TV Set and also directed Judd Apatow's Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story for the same studio back in 2007. This should be a good fit for Kasdan. Not to make this comparison right off the bat, but we're all ...
7 Months Ago,
Reuters via Yahoo!Xtra says
(in Raise a glass to 'Hangover')
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Before the Judd Apatow juggernaut rolled into the megaplex, director Todd Phillips was looking to be the buddy comedy's best buddy courtesy of 2003's " Old School ."
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vancouversun.com says
(in Summer movies -- will they sizzle or fizzle?)
Canada
Did you hear the one about the dying comedian (Adam Sandler) who hires a newbie (Seth Rogen) to write some jokes and keep him company just as he falls for an old girlfriend (Leslie Mann)? Hit or miss: does Knocked Up director Judd Apatow ring any ...
And
AMCtv.com says
(in Judd Apatow)
NY
Though he had already achieved some amount of notoriety as a result of his involvement with such efforts as The Larry Sanders Show and The Ben Stiller Show, Apatow began to move into feature territory as the writer and executive producer of ...