"Unfriended" (R): Three-and-a-half out of five stars. It drags a little here and there and could actually have used more gore, but in the end, "Unfriended’s" moral of “bullying people online leads to stupid teens getting dead” should be mandatory high school viewing. You’re watching five teens having an inane conversation, and then they get killed off one by one. "Unfriended" is basically a scary version of that " Modern Family" episode from February that took place entirely on mobile devices. Which brings us to our final wide release of the week - the horror film "Unfriended." If you’d told me before I saw it that a movie filmed almost entirely on Skype, and starring five little-known actors, was going to be a whole lot more enjoyable than movies starring James Franco, Jonah Hill, Felicity Jones, Tom Hardy et al., I would have suspected you’d smoked too much of Jonah Hill’s stash. So why did Sony feel the need to make a sequel to the 2009 comedy? Because it made more than $180 million on a budget of just $26 million, numbers no studio is going to ignore. The acting is atrocious and there’s so many unnecessary. The piano bird fight scene, the brown banana scene and the scene where Blart looks over at the manager dude and he’s crying are all hilarious, but my goodness, the rest of this thing is painful.
I have no idea - but the studio didn’t screen it for review, which is never a good sign. Well, it wouldn’t hurt to watch Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 again. Speaking of silly, there’s Kevin James’ return as the title character in "Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2," which actually may not be silly. But you have to wonder if they burst out laughing after each take. Again, there are solid performances from the big names involved, including Hardy, Gary Oldman, Noomi Rapace and Joel Kinnaman.
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