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Table For Three (2009/Anchor Bay DVD)

 

Picture: C+     Sound: C+     Extras: C     Film: C

 

 

The houseguest(s) from hell story is one that is hard to not do with some amusement, though most of the films that try it never seem to totally pull off the finer points of the story.  However, there are still enough amusing moments in the otherwise average Table For Three shows that Brandon Routh (Superman Returns, Zak & Miri Make A Porno) has a gift for comedy and is one of the reasons this is not worse.

 

He plays a guy who finds himself single after a long time and not very happy about it, but it is about to get worse when after meeting many toxic and dysfunctional people, settles a wacky couple (Jesse Bradford, Sophia Bush) who intend to “help” him out, but instead of course are ruining, monopolizing and being endlessly inappropriate for the whole time.  Can he get rid of them?  How long will he put up with them?  Will he kill them?

 

Unfortunately, Writer/Director Michael Samonek cannot make most of this, is lucky to have the actors he has and through shear inexperience misses endless opportunities to make this funnier.  The substitute is desperate punctuation of “gross jokes” and other obvious humor that kills this slowly but surely.  Even John Galecki from The Big Bang Theory cannot save this, but we have seen worse and you could do worse.  Too bad we are talking settling for second best when this could have been better.

 

The anamorphically enhanced 1.85 X 1 image is soft and not always engaging, but is on the clean side, despite being on the soft side.  The Dolby Digital 5.1 mix is not great, with rare surrounds, usually filled with the score and mostly dialogue-based moments.  Extras include a feature length audio commentary track by the director that does not say much, a trailer and a making of featurette.

 

 

-   Nicholas Sheffo


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