By Robert Scucci
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Just before Jordan Peele went to horror with 2017 To go outHe worked alongside his longtime comedy cohort, Keegan-Michael Key, to write and produce his first feature film, 2016 Keanu. At first glance, Keanu It looks like your typical action comedy film which was lit green due to the success that the duo saw with Sketch Comedy Series, Key and puele, Whether or not they want to make a feature film. But it only takes a few minutes to realize how easily their skills are transferable because of the way the pace and the action Keanu In fact, despite his ridiculous premise.
It starts with a cartel cat
Keanu The opening scene presents the titular cat to us, but at this stage, it is known as Iglesias, and lives in a non -disclosed warehouse occupied by a Mexican drug cartel. When two assassins called the “Brothers of Allentown” (depicted by Keegan-Michael Kay and Jordan Peele In heavy makeup) pull the place, leaving no survivor, Iglesias fled from the scene and finds himself on the Pas de la Porte de Rell (Jordan Peele). Rell, who is in a depression pit after being dropped by his longtime girlfriend, welcomes the cat in his house, names him Keanu and the two immediately linked.
Meanwhile, the Cousin of Rell, Clarence (Keegan-Michael Key), is forced by his wife, Hannah (Nia Long), spending a funny weekend for himself while she embarks on a suspicious weekend getaway with Spencer (Rob Huebel), a friend of the family who clearly wants to take a step on her.
Clarence and Rell launch their weekend with a “Liam NeesonS ”Film, before returning to Rell, only to discover that the house was ransacked, and Keanu is missing.
Personing that the one who burst into the place of Rell was looking for his drug neighbor, Hulka (Will Forte), Rell and Clarence confronted him in search of answers, which leads them to the chief of the Blips (remains of the Bloods and Crips), known as cheddar (Man method).
Presentation of the tech-tone and shark tank
Rell and Clarence use Intel de Hulka to infiltrate a strip club called Hot Party Vixens (with the unfortunate acronym, HPV) and confront the cheddar about where Keanu. Realizing that they have acted in a hurry, they need a cover story, so they lie in the fact of being involved in the gang of Alentown, not knowing the massacre that took place at the front from the film. Rell decides that his street name is Tech-Tonic, and Clarence, the business drone he is, informs everyone that his street name is Shark Tank.
Tech-Tonic and Shark Tank agree to form the drugs on a drug in exchange for Keanu (which was renamed New Jack by Cheddar), and they have absolutely no idea what they get started. After a sloppy delivery of a new celebration drug called “Holy Sh * t”, Rell / Tech-Tonic is visibly traumatized, blowing almost its cover as a member of Endcis gang, while Clarence / Shark Tank ends up kissing The lifestyle of the gang because it is I never had so much pleasure as an adult. Clarence fully embraces the gang ethics code while simultaneously introducing the Musical style Blips of George Michaels, while Rell simply wants to take Keanu’s hand so that he can return to his normal life.
Things get complicated, however, when Cheddar is denying the initial agreement, stringing them in another raid.
High level chemistry between the key and the puele
An important aspect of Keanu This distinguishes him from the other action comedies that fall into this shooting is the chemistry established for a long time between Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele, who had proven himself to be able to rifhe the humor of the other. Although there are several cases in Keanu Where you have to suspend a healthy quantity of disbelief, as when Clarence demonstrates how flawless it could, these sequences never seem exaggerated. And although each situation in which Rell and Clarence are found to make you say “no meaning”, the inherent ridiculous of the film works because the two characters are just as surprised as the public.
My favorite scene which leads this point to the house takes place after an shooting linked to an epic gang, when Rell, who does not know how to drive, decides to steal a car so that he can transport Keanu to his home. On the one hand, it is incredibly difficult to believe that a man without experience behind the steering wheel could so well drive given the circumstances. Conversely, it was incredibly refreshing to know that the audience of Rell was compromised when Bacon Diaz (Luiz Guzman), the cartel chief in his rear seat, draws a few laps near his face, which irritates rell without END.
Ultimate friend’s comedy
Keanu is a unique action comedy of its kind because it is not only hilarious, but has enormous production values. Each obvious body of violence is immediately offset by the jokes between its main characters, who at this stage have far beyond their dungeon as actors who know very well what they are doing. And to think, the catalyst that triggered the entire event chain is a cat called Keanu.
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