Let's talk about coping mechanisms. It would be fairly safe to say that the ultimate hope with every movie we watch is for it to be so bad that it's funny. That's what we strive for mostly and a lot of the time we succeed. The funniest movies end up on our rewatch list (as you have probably noticed that we do the occasional rewatch; often when someone can't make it that night). However, there are times when movies are so bad they're annoying or, even worse, so bad they're boring. This movie was annoying a lot of the time with some horrified laughter mixed in so it didn't really require a coping mechanism but Randy gave us a great one anyway: Imagine that the main characters are The Joker and Harley Quinn on vacation. This is definitely the best way to watch this movie and I highly recommend it.
The plot of "Undercover Blues" is as simple as a grossly affectionate married
couple who are government spies that recently had a baby are on
maternity/paternity leave in New Orleans where they are asked to take a mission
involving the theft of some plastic explosives. In between this main plot, well really for most of the movie, they are fighting this thug, calling himself
"Muerte" (although Dennis Quaid's character calls him "Mortie"), who mostly just gets the crap beat out of him over and over by the
Blues. Oh, did I mention Blue is their last name? Yeah, they don't necessarily
have the blues (in fact they literally never stop being deliriously happy and
it's terrifying); the name is a pun. As Adam pointed out, "The original script
probably had their name as something like Johnson until they realized they could
make a joke title out of it" and as Keith noted, "'Undercover Johnsons' would be
a very different movie."This is a family fun comedy with so little comedy that it requires comic relief characters. In fact, every character on their own is essentially a comic relief character stereotype and they are all culminating together into this clusterfuck of weird non-humans interacting. It's an Island of Misfit Comic Relief Characters who fall over, have silly voices, or in the case of Jeff Blue NEVER STOP SMILING no matter what happens. His relentless optimism really creates an environment of no risk that makes you as the viewer bored pretty quickly. And what the Blues lack in actual attentive and safe child rearing, they make up for in super cheesy fade-to-black PG sex scenes. Whoopie.
Because I love you, have some Dennis Quaid face to give you nightmares. I don't think him randomly making chopping motions at Muerte made any more sense in context.
Quote: "Someone find out who this man is . . . and then kill him!"
Adam's Grandma's Review : "Bad, bad, bad movie."
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