The challenge on TFX: Should we look at the comedy with Jennifer Lawrence? (critical)

Falsely raw and ass, the film is mainly worth for the performance of its star, which tries for the first time in the genre.

Dirty time for American comedies for adults. After the terrible flop of Bros Last year, The challenge Discreetly came out with us, despite the presence of Jennifer Lawrence in the casting. With 87 million dollars at the box office during its cinema operation (117,890 admissions in France), the film did not reimburse its budget and its promo. A scandal? Not necessarily … broadcast in clear this Tuesday evening on TFX, the first “Raunechy Comedy” by Lawrence features her in Maddie’s shoes, mowed thirty -something Uber without vehicle, who comes across a funny little ad: a rich couple offers to underestimate their son, Percy, 19 -year -old sickly introvert, in the exchange of a car. Maddie jumps at the opportunity but only in summer to achieve her ends, without Percy suspecting that she was hired by her parents. It will obviously be more complicated than expected …

Jennifer Lawrence’s comic slaughter

“” Everyone, in one way or another, will be offended by this film », Partly assured Jennifer Lawrence at the time of the room exit. In fact, The challenge should not rush grand-world. Falsely raw and ass, more gravelly than shocking, this pochade R-RATED would like to look like a Supergrave reverse. The idea is pretty well seen but never really exploited, the affair turning very quickly to the romantic comedy lambda on a highly formatted scenario. And if the star gives a lot of her person (especially in a really funny full -naked fight scene) and her comic slaughter is undeniable, she is quickly caught up by gags rarely up to her burlesque performance. Faced with her, the very young Andrew Barth Feldman, actor of a protean Broadway who does not deserve. But the alchemy of the duo is almost nonexistent and kills in the egg of sequences which are not devoid of potential, as well as any reflection on the state of American sexuality.