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‘Friendship’ Review: Tim Robinson Brings His Masochistic Cringe Comedy to a Scattershot Satire of Male Bonding
The Netflix cult star plays a geeked-out loser, befriended by weatherman Paul Rudd, in a sketch-comedy conceit stretched out to feature length.
Yet the truly odd thing about “Friendship” is that while we may think, at first, that we’re watching a comedy about a sad-sack geek who’s drawn out of his shell, the film always makes sure that Craig, as inhabited by Robinson, is a notch weirder and more off-putting than we expect. It all climaxes in a moment of shock comedy, after he’s done something very wrong (knocked Austin out in a “friendly” sparring match), at which point Craig jams an entire bar of soap into his mouth and stands there telling the other guys, “I’m sowwy!” Yet despite promising moments, and a gamely appealing performance by Rudd (even his lush hair isn’t what it seems), the movie, after a while, starts to feel like it’s for Tim Robinson cultists only.
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