‘Fist Fight’ is a Comedy at War With Itself

Campbell (Charlie Day) and Strickland (Ice Cube) are teachers at a raucous high school. Day’s more accommodating Campbell is still trying to make E.E. Cummings relevant for kids who couldn’t care less.

“I’m just happy to be working”. Here we’re just waiting for one, and it gets boring fast. It’s the most yadda of yadda yaddas, the equivalent of having your rom-com love interest declare, apropos of nothing, “Oh, and don’t forget, I have to run through an airport at 2:30 today”.

“They believed in me and they allowed me – they gave me the space to be creative on set”, he said. “It could’ve been worse!”

“I had dressed in a nice outfit as my Jewish parents had taught me to do when you have a job interview”, he says. Jillian Bell is a riot as a school guidance counselor completely off the rails.

Morgan has said in the past that he harbors no animosity toward the truck driver that hit him.

“I basically tried to assemble the people that most entertain me, even if it wasn’t exactly how the role was written”, Keen told the Asbury Park Press” “Fan Theory” podcast. “All my white neighbors”.

Tracy Morgan is back to make us laugh. To make matters worse, the school is instituting budget cuts, and Campbell, who has a baby on the way, is anxious he’s going to lose his job.

This scene isn’t establishing a baseline for the movie’s humor, where more clever jokes follow, it’s the only level on which it’s operating. The exhausted concept was too much to overcome, numerous jokes didn’t land with the audience, and some of the parts seemed too out of place.

Add in a pregnant wife and looming father-daughter dance performance for Campbell, and the threat for all of being fired by Principal Tyler (Dean Norris) due to district cutbacks, and there is a lot to divide the film’s focus. “Not to be heavy about it but I wanted to ground it in something”.

But Richie put together this really amusing trailer with existing footage of Cube and I from different movies and then I was showed them that he’s ideal.

Cube, like Day, has memorable scenes that focus on what Cube does best as a comedic character.

Bell: I was just very excited to be a part of this. Were you happy with the reunion and would you want to do it again?

“I know I’m extremely blessed and fortunate, right place at right time any cliché you can put out there has happened to me, so I’m grateful and one of the luckiest guys in America the way things have played out for me”, he explained. Both are also expensive: The Great Wall’s budget estimate of 0 million seems low, as does the million for the relatively star-free Wellness; Fist Fight, meanwhile, cost around $20 million, and even Ice Cube’s lowest grossing comedy this decade, Lottery Ticket, made million domestic.

Universal’s “The Great Wall”, starring Mark Wahlberg as a European mercenary joining the fight against monsters during China’s Song Dynasty, is expected to take in about $17 million at 3,326 sites during the upcoming weekend.