Between Two Ferns: The Movie

Netflix | Release Date (Streaming): September 20, 2019

5.6	USER SCORE Mixed or average reviews based on 65 Ratings

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theredskySep 21, 2019

Between Two Ferns: The Movie is unfortunately, a forgettable comedy film. Here are the positives. The best part about this movie is that most of the celebrity interviews are pretty funny. The segments with Matthew McConaughey, John Legend,Between Two Ferns: The Movie is unfortunately, a forgettable comedy film. Here are the positives. The best part about this movie is that most of the celebrity interviews are pretty funny. The segments with Matthew McConaughey, John Legend, Paul Rudd, and Peter Dinklage are pretty funny while the other celebrity interviews are entertaining at best. There are some outtakes during the end credits that are funnier than most of the film. That’s kind of disappointing that your outtakes are funnier than most of your film. I think Zach Galifianakis does a good job with what he is given and helps keep this film afloat. The film has this mockumentary feel for it and the camera work compliments that. It’s shot in a way a mockumentary would be and it’s refreshing. The film can be self aware at some points and doesn’t try to make itself bigger than what it is supposed to be. The film does what it needs to do and then it is over. Here are the negatives. The story is kind of lame. It’s another one of those “redemption stories because a character did something embarrassing” that has been done to death. The film doesn’t do anything to establish itself as something different. Everything other than the celebrity interviews is incredibly boring and starts to drag heavily. Fortunately, as it starts to drag even heavily, it switches to another celebrity interview. This also leads to a weird structure issue though. It does start to feel out of place when it changes so suddenly but it does lead to better scenes. About 75% of the jokes aren’t that funny which is unfortunate since it is a comedy film. Like I said earlier, I got a bunch of laughs out of the outtakes than I did most of the film. The editing for this film feels very amateurish. It has a bunch of quick cuts that are distracting and obnoxious. This also leads to a pacing issue. It’s weirdly paced due to the quick cuts and awkward structure. It’s these issues that really drag the film down. Overall, Between Two Ferns: The Movie has some funny sequences but is held back by a cookie cutter story, lots of boring moments, and awkward pacing. I give Between Two Ferns: The Movie a 4/10.… Expand

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GrantD243Sep 23, 2019

Between Two Ferns: The Movie is a weird one. The actual interviews are generally quite enjoyable and have some genuinely funny moments, but the interviews only make up a small portion of the film. The rest is a story about Zach and his crewBetween Two Ferns: The Movie is a weird one. The actual interviews are generally quite enjoyable and have some genuinely funny moments, but the interviews only make up a small portion of the film. The rest is a story about Zach and his crew attempting to film 10 episodes of the show in a short amount of time, and it is quite...bad. The blooper reel during the credits is pure gold, though.… Expand

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marcmyworksSep 20, 2019

A good premise poorly executed. The best part of this film are the Two Fern celebrity interviews that unfortunately are cut between a terrible plot about getting to Hollywood to 'make it big'.

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amheretojudgeSep 21, 2019

The interviews are good, the host was and is not, this is not how you turn an interview around.

Between Two Ferns: The Movie I don't want to be that guy that thinks that one should stick to what they do. There is nothing wrong with tryingThe interviews are good, the host was and is not, this is not how you turn an interview around.

Between Two Ferns: The Movie

I don't want to be that guy that thinks that one should stick to what they do. There is nothing wrong with trying something new. Whether it be physically, changing locations or genres or changing formats. On that note, the co-writer and director Scott Aukerman's film is a fresh peak behind the camera of a lovable show. This might be the pitch at the Netflix office. It should be it. What's best and the worst thing about the film, is the admiration they have for the lead character, the interviewer, Zach. They don't take him for granted. They don't want to lose him. And in order to do so, they are returning back to those old sitcom sugar coated schemes that gathered crowd like controversy does to media.

But it doesn't work. Not the fact that the interviewer Zach and the character Zach are completely different personalities. If anything that should have made it more grounding and fun to watch him play. Watch him juggle the on and off screen face twitch beautifully in the middle of this race against time chaos. And instead what has happened is that the crux, the thrill of those interviews have been snatched away from us.

Now, despite the insults are audaciously wrong and cuts deep to sensitive parts of the lives of these celebrities, the intention, the motif paints itself like a commercial strategy. A strategy that Will Ferrell explains and has based his empire on. The click bait theory is glorified by them inadvertently. And something that is actually menacingly taking over the authenticity over the data, the enormous amount of data flooded out in the world. Between Two Ferns: The Movie should have been a good weekend night out, instead we're stuck on Wednesday, a week day, working laboriously to finish what we have started. I don't need to be reminded that.… Expand

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CarlElmoreNov 22, 2022

The individual interviews themselves are fine but they didn't need to be included into a feature length film.

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