Review of The Nice Guys (2016) by Axet — 23 May 2016

The comic teaming of these stars was promising, and they do make a good team. Too bad it's utterly wasted in this overly convoluted, highly formulaic, bloated, not very funny but crass movie! All you need of this junk is to watch the free trailer which has the funniest bits. The couple funny scenes are also out there for publicity. Sitting through the actual feature is an excruciating bore.

It doesn't help that it's full of annoying period flaws. Set in 1977, and at least 2 big songs featured weren't even released until 1-2 years later, "Jaws 2" came out in June 1978 (highly doubtful that billboard poster was even created at least 7 months earlier much less already advertising on the Sunset Strip), the Camaro is from 1979 or later, Tim Allen hadn't even started his stand-up career yet, platter projection systems were doubtfully in use at the time much less even invented yet?, and certain vulgar phraseology spoken was not part of the lexicon yet.

The point is for an expensive major film (any film for that matter, because omission works wonders), it's a disgrace the director is so sloppily incompetent not to get this kind of stuff right no matter how unimportant the people who made this think such detail is, certainly when all those very specific choices have hundreds of other options which would cost no more to have gone with! Maybe if the script didn't suck so bad such anachronistic slop would be more forgivable?  No, not even then it isn't.