Product: Funny People
Rating: 4.0
Apatow's most compelling, albeit flawed, film
The Bottom Line:Funny People is certainly too long (though so was Knocked Up, if push comes to shove) and often feels incomplete--as if the director hadn't quite decided which scenes to cut and which to leave in--but it's worth nothing that the film develops real characters and puts them through a storyline that doesn't rigidly follow the romantic comedy template as Apatow's previous works did; it may be a film in which Apatow's reach exceeds his grasp, but it's also the first time he's reached high in the first place.3/4