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Hulu March 5
Will our escapist fare ever stop telling us to put away childish things? Can one really accept life lessons from a film with multiple Hitler jokes? While Carnahan’s sense of humor has always been juvenile, in
Stretch it at least benefitted from a gonzo factor and the crucial quality of having funny parts.
Boss Level, however, is clumsy from the jump, with lame gags and a ceaseless, obtrusive voice-over that is always telling us why the next part is funny or what’s happening on screen (in case the viewer is distracted by their phone). The macabre comedy potential of watching Roy bite the dust ad nauseam is, if anything, underexplored; Carnahan can’t seem to think of anything more darkly comic than a guy taking a bullet to the groin. (As in the kitchen, it’s really all about timing and proportion. A man getting shot in the balls once isn’t funny—but what if it was 10 times?)