{"id":7675,"date":"2016-05-11T18:39:52","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T18:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idsunmedia.com\/?p=7675"},"modified":"2016-05-11T18:39:52","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T18:39:52","slug":"keanu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/2016\/05\/11\/keanu\/","title":{"rendered":"KEANU"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>Undercover brothers<\/i><\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><span class=\"s1\">BY JONATHAN KANE<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cKeanu,\u201d the ghetto\/action\/buddy parody that pokes fun at its namesake (who also makes an appearance in the film), will delight fans of their critically praised and highly successful and now defunct Comedy Central show, Key and Peele.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">Unfortunately, I never saw the show, so I was left to take it in with a more critical eye. Surprisingly, the film succeeds and stands on its own, delivering laughs that sometimes can be hit or miss, and relying on the considerable talents of its two leads and writers of the film \u2013 Jordan Peele and Keegan-Michael Key.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">The main problem with the film, though, is its thin plot that stretches on a bit too long. But Peter Atencio directs its two stars admirably, perhaps because he directed all 55 episodes of their TV series. Key and Peele\u2019s chemistry, though, is the rock that holds things together and is finely tuned going all the way back to their years on Mad TV.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">In \u201cKeanu,\u201d they play two cousins from the suburbs, distinctly lacking in street cred. Peele, a stoner, is recovering from a bad breakup when an adorable kitten arrives at his door. The surprise is that the cat once belonged to a gang leader. When the cat is kidnapped, the journey is on for the duo to find him. It first leads to a very funny Will Forte, as a weed dealer, that leads the pair to Cheddar (Method Man), leader of the 17th Street Blips, formed by former members of the Bloods and Crips.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">The funny moments come in the sharp look at black culture, especially as it\u2019s imagined by Hollywood. Especially noteworthy is Key\u2019s very funny transformation from suburban dad to full-throttle hood and gang member. Overall, it\u2019s entertaining, but certainly never rises to great.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Undercover brothers BY JONATHAN KANE \u201cKeanu,\u201d the ghetto\/action\/buddy parody that pokes fun at its namesake (who also makes an appearance in the film), will delight fans of their critically praised and highly successful and now defunct Comedy Central show, Key and Peele. Unfortunately, I never saw the show, so I was left to take it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","_pvb_checkbox_block_on_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7675","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-commentary","8":"category-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}