Twenty-five years ago, when the Impractical Jokers boys are still in high school, they, as everyone might expect, put themselves in a precarious situation. They find themselves in the middle of a live performance by Paula Abdul, and happen to ruin the show in typical Joker fashion. Paula promises to make the four suffer for ruining her show. Here they are, officially twenty-five years removed from their mishap, and they happen to run into Paul at a local Red Lobster. To their surprise, she offers them the opportunity to join her at a party in Miami. With four friends and only three tickets to see Paula Abdul, Impractical Jokers: The Movie is born.
The Impractical Joker crew (Joe, Sal, Q and Murr) has set a precedent for themselves and audiences expect them to regularly live up to the hype presented throughout their television show. When Hollywood steps in and attempts to turn a popular, live-action, television show into a feature-length film. Impractical Jokers: The Movie, however, strongly incorporates aspects of the television show throughout. The slew of writers and director Chris Henchy are able to capture the magic and bring to the big screen the delight and humor that the jokers delivered for more than eight years. What audiences have come to expect from the jokers is present on the big screen, but with a twist.
The usual repartee between the four friends appears front and center throughout Impractical Jokers: The Movie and allows audiences a sense of comfort as they attempt, in the opening moments, to come to terms with the slight change of pace. Having Q, Murr, Sal and Joe take part in a series of hidden-camera challenges, like they typically do, incites audiences who have come to love the show to appreciate the fact that the jokers have not necessarily moved on, but become a part of bigger and better things. This drastic change from television to the big screen presents the potential for a bit of anxiety among fans of the show because, as I’ve already mentioned, it presents the popular show with a chance to fail as a feature film. However, while the opening sequence adds a bit to that anxiety, the rest of the film does a wonderful job of letting audiences know that, while the jokers should not be on the big screen full time, they do have the ability to transition smoothly by creating enough content to allow the film not to feel fractured or underwhelming.
The four Impractical Jokers are horrific actors and seriously struggle to convey the appropriate emotions. Thankfully, audiences (including myself) had low--or no--expectations for this aspect of the film. As the film progresses, and audiences begin to look further past this discretion, Impractical Jokers: The Movie is able to shine brightly, as it takes audiences down a path full of laugh-out-loud, tear-jerking comedy.
Impractical Jokers: The Movie delivers the same level of laughter that audiences are used to encountering throughout the show. Keeping the comedy along the same lines as what audiences have come to expect (even if they do stray from time to time) presents audiences with a simple escape from reality. Impractical Jokers: The Movie intrigues audiences old and new and opens a series of doors to the jokers’ futures.
Directed by Chris Henchy. Written by Chris Henchy, Joe Gatto, James Murray, Brian Quinn, & Sal Vulcano. Starring Joe Gatto, James Murray, Brian Quinn & Sal Vulcano.
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