'Paint,' starring Owen Wilson, is a comedy that is about as interesting as watching paint dry. Our review:
It’s not hard coming up with a dumb, silly idea for a comedy—the difficulty is in following through on that concept for 90+ minutes. Steve Carell playing a 40-year-old virgin is an idea that only takes you so far, but the execution is what makes The 40-Year-Old Virgin special. Without the jokes and pathos, Superbad is just a film about three high school kids trying to get booze for a party. Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly as man-children had the script to back it up with Step Brothers.
COLLIDER VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Wilson plays Carl Nargle, the host of the most popular painting program on the Vermont Public Broadcasting service. For decades, Nargle has built an audience who loves his quiet demeanor as he paints landscape after landscape—often featuring the exact same mountain in all of them. In terms of Vermont public television, Carl Nargle is a star. That is, until the network hires another painter, Ambrosia , in the hour following Carl’s show.
But it’s baffling how rarely McAdams’ script is even going for humor. It’s not that Paint is attempting bad jokes that don’t land, although there are a handful of those, there just aren’t many jokes. Instead, we’re left watching this obsolete artist attempting to figure out his professional and love lives in a fairly straightforward way.
This is all a shame, considering Paint does have a solid cast, full of great comedic actors who are largely wasted. Watkins is always great, and she’s charming here, but she isn’t given hardly anything to do. The same goes for Wendi McLendon-Covey and Lusia Strus, who play one-note characters that never warrant their addition.
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