Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

It's funny watching the elements come together in this complicated scam. On one hand, the set-up isn't quite as complex as it seems, but there's an easy sense of fun in every exchange.

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

The Clapper was one of my favorite Jimmy Stewart movies. I especially loved Jimmy's hilarious imitations of Humphrey Bogart, Ratso Rizzo and Al Pachino. Oh. It wasn't a Jimmy Stewart movie .... ??Other than the poor choice of Jimmy Stewart wannabe Ed Helms to play the lead character ... a guy so unlikable his first wife "left the Earth" to escape him and his current lust for a girlfriend prefers one-horned goats. I think I was supposed to feel empathy for a guy who lives in a stereotypical L.A. apartment and makes his living "clapping" for cable channel "As Seen On TV" shows. I didn't. I kept waiting and hoping he would get hit by a bus. Nor did I feel any empathy for his choice of d'jour girlfriend played by Amanda Seyfried (who?) who honestly preferred to work in the change booth of a self-serve gas station until she could afford to raise one-horned goats in Mexico and befriend creepy old men wearing nothing than tightie-whities.If possible my empathy meter dipped below zero for the hapless schmuck portrayed by Russell Peters who was supposed to be a cross between Dr. Phil, Geraldo Rivera, and Steve Harvey as a reality TV show host. A guy so slimy I prayed he wouldn't get hit by a bus because I feared the bus would get hurt. His production assistant, played by Adam Levine, was one of the most miscast roles in history. My mind could not concentrate on one word of dialogue because all my eyes could tell it that I was watching Adam Levine mocking his own over-the-top caricature of a production assistant.If anything could save this nowhere movie it was two roles, that of P.J. Byrne as the shill show producer who targeted the role with brilliant accuracy and that of Tracy Morgan who played the lead character's best friend by ad-libbing his way through the movie just being himself thereby delivering an Oscar-worthy performance.Special mention goes to the cameo appearance by Mark Cuban who almost perfectly hit the nail on the head in the badly acted role of playing himself.If I were to recommend this movie (I won't) it would be for the opening credits, a blatant ripoff of Ah Ha's "Take On Me" and for the Mr. Blackwell award wardrobe of Naked Thomas that captured the entire essence of The Clapper.

It's like a cross between mumblecore and Andy Samberg. It tries to see just how unpleasant and irritating it can be before you turn it off. This is a movie that hates movies hates TV hates infomercials and hates its audience. And it hates you.

The clapper is a great movie great story there wasn't much chemistry between the leads but overall it still worked, Tracy Morgan did a great job as EdS friend people that hate movies like this are usually people that give transformerS a good a 10 in rating. Hope to see Ed in more films like this.

I found The Clapper to be a very absorbing film, but odd in a number of parts.It was a very good study with elements of Educating Rita, when compared to the evaluation of certain long-held ideas: that becoming "famous" is desirable, that it is OK to use people for financial gain, and that just because you want something you should have it, regardless of the morals and responsibilities that go with the territory.America's obsession with becoming famous, and becoming rich (& famous) for basically doing nothing but being famous, is lightly viewed here, and I can't fathom why the script called for such low intelligence depicted by the characters Eddie & Chris.We are all subject to the seduction of money and "elevating our status", and certainly the hegemony of America's wealthy is shown to some degree and put to the test. However I felt it wasn't necessary to have Eddie & Chris shown as less to lower average intelligence, and therefore grossly gullible. The greed of getting something for nothing as depicted by the network executives is interesting, as was the price of eventual "fame", but I would have been more interested in seeing how persons of average intelligence find it so difficult to earn a living in a country that allegedly worships the dollar and is fixated on making a buck at the expense of "the other guy" - more egalitarian countries don't have the socio-economic problems that such predatory behaviour brings. Being used & discarded is distasteful to anyone, and the likes of Hilton & Kardashian cashing in on vapidity is hopefully a trend that will ultimately end, when networks stop trying to sell advertising by elevating such lack of ability to do anything & its hollowness is finally recognised.Two marks above pass from me, and I hope to see more of the same in the future - its getting very difficult to find a film that is thoughtful, reflective and interesting to anyone over 25 these days, we don't all need explosions and gun play, and yes we still go to the cinema and pay for tickets - please stop ignoring your most loyal audience !