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Please don't spend money on this.

Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

A Disappointing Continuation

I watched this as a result of liking the book 'Eddie Krumble Is The Clapper'. Dito Montiel, the author of the book, wrote and directed the movie. The central idea of the story is a good one. Eddie (Ed Helms) is happy enough with his job as a 'clapper' in audiences for infomercials and is slowly starting a relationship with gas-station worker Judy (Amanda Seyfried) until a late-night talk show notices him in several infomercials and he goes viral, which costs him his job and his relationship. Helms does an excellent job as a man who finds the peaceful, anonymous life he had shattered, without understanding what's happening to him or why. Helms plays Eddie in a way that you can't help but feel sorry for him.Maybe there's a message in there about laughing at total strangers on the internet. Those who are exploiting Eddie for entertainment, and those doing the laughing are the ones who are in the wrong here. I think a lot of the negative reviews are because people expected that with this cast, it would be a comedy. It's not. But I found it to be an entertaining and somewhat sweet film and I think well worth 90 minutes of anyone's time.

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.

A really good rom com. Probably more com than rom. Funny, sad, made me tear up. Great cast.