A mediocre film, that just doesn't generate the laughs.

Rating: 5/10 (17 February 2019)

There is one thing The Room got right, and that is that it is at least spectacular in one aspect, how terrible it is. The Disaster Artist is mediocre in every aspect, despite its subject matter it has very few real laughs along the way, instead it seems to be depending on the audience being in on their joke. The humour they seems to want to generate seems to be more along the lines of a group of people saying to the audience, "Hey this is pretty funny right? Hahahaha!" and expecting everyone to laugh along instead of actually generating some actual jokes or comedy.
The lack of laughs could be forgiven if this movie had even the slightest bit of heart, but instead it comes off as a smarmy attempt to ridicule those pathetic 'peasants' who attempt to scale the golden hills of Hollywood. The impression I got was that the entire film was based on the idea of the thought "unless you are gods like us, you don't belong here." Truly the funny thing is that The Room demonstrates the ridiculousness of that argument, and the irony is that The Room will be remembered far longer than will the Disaster Artist.
As an aside: I'm not sure why Dave Franco spends half the movie with what looked like a mat of pubes glued to his face rather than growing an actual beard. Is that what Hollywood thinks beards look like?