The Interview review: All that fuss for a half-baked, unfunny mess

2 / 5 stars
The Interview

RARELY in the movie-making world can such a juvenile, half-baked film have caused such a monumental fuss as The Interview.

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At the end of last year it threatened to become the cinematic equivalent of the Cuban missile crisis with allegations and threats passing back and forth between America and North Korea. 

The reality proves to be a smutty, modern variation on a Bing Crosby-Bob Hope road movie. 

Seth Rogen’s Aaron Rapaport is the long-suffering producer of tabloid TV show Skylark Tonight, presented by dim-witted Dave Skylark (James Franco), a media star with more than a hint of Alan Partridge. 

Rapaport jumps at the chance of an exclusive interview with Kim Jong-un (Randall park) but then the CIA recruits the duo to assassinate the North Korean dictator. 

Bad taste jokes and a goofy bromance follow in an uninspired, unfunny romp.

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The Interview, starring Seth Rogan and James Franco, almost sparked World War III
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