2 films to watch on VOD: Back in Action & Saturday Night

Back in Action with Cameron Diaz and Jamie Foxx, to watch on Netflix, and Saturday Nighton one of the most famous comedy television shows in the United States, to watch on YouTube: our current VOD selection.

There was a time when Emily and Matt were secret agents. Today, they are parents, hidden in an American suburb where they try to invent a little action. Failing to spy on naughty Russians, they monitor their offspring with hunting binoculars purchased on Amazon. Except that of course, the past resurfaces, and Emily and Matt find themselves forced to take their little family to England to find the MacGuffin who blew their cover.

Cameron Diaz and Jamie Foxx have a field day in this action comedy with willingly irreverent humor (special mention to Jamie Demetriou, a troublesome stepfather who is undergoing “training” to become a spy), but who sins a little in the way of action scenes, favoring soft-knee clashes. Certainly, Seth Gordon flirts with the register of parody, but given the budgets deployed by Netflix, we could have hoped for a little more adrenaline and creativity on this side.

“Live from New York, it’s Saturday Night!” Director notably of Thank You for Smoking, Juno et Up in the AirJason Reitman returns as an expert on the chaotic frenzy surrounding the beginnings, in the mid-1970s, of the famous Saturday Night Livewhich remains today one of the most famous television comedy shows in the United States. Unreleased in theaters, but now available on VOD on YouTube, the film focuses particularly on delving into the bustling behind-the-scenes of the project just a few minutes before its very first broadcast.

Between joyfully dysfunctional preparations and unbearable uncertainties linked to the hypothetical appearance on the air of the show, the members of the team flirt at all times with the purest nervous breakdown in an electric atmosphere which exudes passion and love for the laugh… Led with pep by the young Gabriel LaBelle, recently revealed by The Fabelmans by Steven Spielberg, this generous choral comedy delivers one hell of a performance. It will delight all humor lovers without misleading those who are not at all familiar with the key figures from the first steps of the very cult SNL.