Flypaper
Dir: Rob Minkoff
2011
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It's quite quite surprising that 2011's Flypaper is Rob Minkoff second live action film. His first was the hugely impressive The Forbidden Kingdom, a massive leap from the animation work he was known for. Flypaper however, is a truly awful film. It feels like it's a cartoon, like one of his early Roger Rabbit shorts in fact, although it is desperately unfunny. The worst thing you could ask an actor to do is act like a cartoon but this seems to be exactly what happened here although I believe Minkoff thinks the story is really clever but it really isn't. Not even close. The acting is awful, the script is awful, the story is awful...it's a complete mess and it is unbelievable that is was ever green lit.