BRITTANY RUNS A MARATHON – Review

We may be almost past swimsuit season (at least in the northern half of the US), but it’s never too late to get moving and get healthy. And though those New Year’s resolutions are several months away, that goal’s on the mind of this new movie’s title heroine (who just happens to be based on a real person…but don’t let that deter you). Another big motivator is the big event in the title. And yes, the flick covers all the dieting, training, and various ‘prep’ work, but it’s really about so much more. As the ads promise this story is very funny at times, propelled by the talents of a most captivating comedy actress, but there’s more to this than pratfalls and slapstick. This is a story of a woman who wants to do more than win the race or even just cross the finish line. She needs to get moving in order to move her life forward, to bust out of a life-stalling rut. That’s the main reason why BRITTANY RUNS A MARATHON.


But when we first meet Brittany (Jillian Bell) she and her life are at a standstill. She barely makes her rent as a ticket taker/assistant manager at an off, way off-Broadway theatre. Luckily she shares a grungy, funky little walk-up apartment with aspiring “social media influencer” Gretchen (Alice Lee). Brittany spends too many nights with Gretchen and her pals boozing at bars and clubs, waking the next day with a killing hangover and a numbing shame over degrading anonymous “hook-ups”. But she has a “wake up call” via her latest physical. Doc Falloway (Patch Darragh), much to Brit’s humiliation, bluntly tells her that she’s dangerously overweight and out of shape. After deciding against joining a gym (“Starting at $129 a month?! Starting?!!”), she decides to begin jogging. When she retreats to her apartment after a humiliating first run, her whimpers get the attention of annoying upstairs neighbor “Moneybags Martha” AKA Catherine (Michaela Watkins). After some needed, though unwanted, encouragement, she convinces Britany to join her morning “runners’ club”. There she befriends another struggling jogger, married dad Seth (Micah Stock). Eventually the trio bond, and after a few short races, decides to try for the big New York City marathon the next November. But there are fees involved, so Brittany grabs a second job as a “dog-sitter” during the day for a rich couple enjoying a long vacation. Perfect, until the “night-sitter”, a fast-talking hustler named (really) Jern (Utkarsh Ambudkar) decides to move in, 24-7. But Brittany is determined to make the race while fighting her attraction to him. But can she stay “on track” and keep her eyes on the goal (that finish line) when life tosses countless hurdles and obstacles in her path? She’s gotta’ keep moving forward.

This true tale provides the near-perfect showcase for the considerable talents of Ms. Bell. In the last few years she’s easily stolen scenes (sometimes the entire flick) in 22 JUMP STREET, THE NIGHT BEFORE, and ROUGH NIGHT (as a zany “party girl” with a nice dramatic “backstory”). Here she ably carries the film, turning what could have been another “one-note” klutzy “cut-up’ into one of this year’s most complex characters. Brittany’s no comic cliche’. Sure she’s quite funny (I’m thinking her pre-show chatter at her theatre gig is much better than the play), but we soon see her ‘dark side’ in the club sequence that switches gears from hilarity to true sadness. Yes, we’re quickly “rooting” for her, but Bell is constantly catching us “off guard”. We see the disgust in her eyes as she glances at a mirror while reaching for a “munchkin”. Then her self-loathing will strike out at others who try to help. Minutes later Bell will show us the “softer” side of Britt as she begins to thaw and flirts with Jern (oh, that pesky stiff neck). The character’s “downward spiral” crashes to a sickening thud as Brit pummels a party guest with cruel verbal stiletto-like jabs (all while Bell gives her a dead-eyed stare). Bell is endearing and frustrating as she often sabotages several attempts at emotional intimacy. Britt isn’t just a female version of the “frat-boy man-child” who suddenly straightens up (and grows up). There are real consequences to her actions. Bravo to Bell for bucking the notion that a film’s heroine must be pleasant and “nice” at all times. And kudos to her amazing range in this, the first of many, lead role.

Ah, but she’s not the “whole show’ (or I should say “race”). Watkins makes an excellent screen sparing partner, giving us a woman who seems to have it “all”, but is battling demons of the past and present. She’s a powerful positive force in Britt’s corner as is Stock whose Seth could easily have been that “rom-com” cliche ultra-supportive gay pal of the heroine. Yes, he’s there for her, but he endures the pain for his husband and son (with maybe another child if he stays healthy). Ambudkar is a comedic whirlwind as Jern, who he plays with just the right amounts of snark and endearing “boyishness” (love his defense of TV cartoons). He’s exasperating and charming (often at the same time). Lee as roommate Gretchen has a couple of terrific ‘throw-downs’ with Bell when she goes from encouraging to threatened by Britt’s goals (she thinks it’s really a mean dig at her). And speaking of “scene stealers”, the man who purloined GET OUT, Lil Rel Howery shines again as Britt’s brother-in-law (who’s more of a surrogate daddy) offering encouragement from Brit’s hometown of Philly via Skype calls (and later in-person). Oh, and hats off to current SNL cast member Mikey Day for his very funny cameo as the gym salesman.

This is quite an impressive screen debut from director/writer Paul Downs Colaizzo who finds the correct balance of comedy and pathos. His script doesn’t feel “jokey”, as it never hits a false note. He truly makes Brittany an “everywoman”, a character that most women, and men, can identify (or at least see in a friend or relative). Colaizzo finds a most clever way to visualize modern electronics, even using a split-screen to show Britt’s reaction to a downloaded image. This works particularly well as Jern helps her fill out an online form on a dating site (nice, clean animated graphics). He makes some good visuals choice as Brit imagines being in that big race using one solid color around her. Certainly, there are clever discussions of body image and shaming, but it’s equally sharp about the emotional issues. Brittany needs to get healthy in her psyche, too. She has to run towards, and not away from, adulthood, committing and following through on a “life plan”. these goals, rather than the medal, are what make BRITTANY RUNS A MARATHON a truly compelling journey that truly “goes the distance”, along with the wonderful work of Ms. Bell.

3.5 Out of 4

BRITTANY RUNS A MARATHON opens everywhere and screens exclusively in the St Louis area at Landmark’s Tivoli Theatre and the Hi-Pointe Theatre

JOJO RABBIT Opens in Theaters October 16th -Check Out This New Trailer

Writer director Taika Waititi (THOR: RAGNAROK, HUNT FOR THE WILDERPEOPLE), brings his signature style of humor and pathos to his latest film, Jojo Rabbit, a World War II satire that follows a lonely German boy (Roman Griffin Davis as Jojo) whose world view is turned upside down when he discovers his single mother (Scarlett Johansson) is hiding a young Jewish girl (Thomasin McKenzie) in their attic. Aided only by his idiotic imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler (Taika Waititi), Jojo must confront his blind nationalism. Jojo Rabbit with a screenplay by and directed by Taika Waititi is based upon the book Caging Skies by Christine Leunens and stars Roman Griffin Davis, Thomasin McKenzie, Taika Waititi, Rebel Wilson, Stephen Merchant, Alfie Allen, with Sam Rockwell and Scarlett Johansson. 

JOJO RABBIT Opens in Theaters October 16th. Check out this new trailer:

Jojo Rabbit offers a sharply funny, yet profoundly stirring, child’s-eye view of a society gone mad with intolerance.  Drawing on his own Jewish heritage and his experiences growing up surrounded by prejudice, writer-director Taika Waititi (whose mother is Jewish, while his father is Māori) makes a powerful statement against hate with this pitch-black satire of the Nazi culture that gripped the German psyche at the height of WWII.  Waititi takes a story almost too appalling to approach with sober solemnity—that of a boy who, like many at that time, has been brainwashed into absolutely gung-ho devotion to Hitler. He then mines from it a dark, mesmerizing comedy that ultimately unravels the toxic ideas of anti-Semitism and persecution of the other.  Balancing on a comedic high-wire, Waititi mixes the fury of satire with an insistent sense of hope that fanaticism and hate can be overcome. 

            The film follows very much in the footsteps of some of Waititi’s personal filmmaking heroes:  Mel Brooks, Charlie Chaplin, Ernst Lubitsch and Stanley Kubrick to name a few.  Like those directors, Waititi was in search of a fresh way to re-visit the most unsettling of topics through the paradoxically moral force of out-and-out parody.  Waititi echoes Brooks in particular, as a Jewish actor disrupting the enduring power of Hitler’s image with a zany, ridiculing portrait.   But much as the film owes to its bold forbearers, Jojo Rabbit feels very much of our times, with its deeply human characters whose blinded foibles might amuse but whose inner predicaments are deadly real and pointedly relevant right now.    

Win Free Passes To The St. Louis Advance Screening Of HUSTLERS Starring Jennifer Lopez, Constane Wu and Cardi B

HUSTLERS follows a crew of savvy former strip club employees who band together to turn the tables on their Wall Street clients. The film is inspired by the article published by New York Magazine entitled “The Hustlers at Scores” written by Jessica Pressler.

Stars Constance Wu, Jennifer Lopez, Julia Stiles, Keke Palmer, Lili Reinhart, Lizzo, and Cardi B.

Written and directed by Lorene Scafaria, HUSTLERS opens in theaters from STXfilms September 13, 2019.

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Constance Wu and Jennifer Lopez star in HUSTLERS

FIDDLER: A MIRACLE OF MIRACLES – Review

Looking back on the previous century, we see that the good ole’ U.S. of A. gave birth (or at least nursed and nurtured) several, vibrant art forms. A revered trio springs to mind, ones originally looked down upon by “the cultural elite”, but now celebrated worldwide. There’s jazz, graphic sequential story art (a “fancy-schmancy” term for comic strips and comic books) and the theatrical musical comedy. And amongst the hundreds produced (many barely made it past opening night), a couple of dozen or so could be called perennials ,shows that are constantly revived on the “great white way” while still being staples of community theatres, along with colleges, high schools, and even middle or “grammar” schools. Of those, the Rogers and Hammerstein classics (“Oklahoma”, The King and I”, etc.) get the most “play”, followed closely by another duo, Lerner and Lowe (“Brigadoon”, “My Fair Lady”). Then there are those singular classics from the 50s and 60s that may have made that time a real golden age of Broadway musicals: “West Side Story”, “Guys and Dolls”, “Cabaret”, “Hello Dolly”, and the focus of this new documentary, “Fiddler on the Roof”. Yes, it has wonderful songs and characters, but it’s also set in a dark time for an oppressed people. In a time when most producers avoided it, this was a show that was proudly “ethnic”. So how did it become a beloved piece of entertainment? The filmmakers and interview subjects do their best to answer that query in FIDDLER: A MIRACLE OF MIRACLES.

The backstory starts with a real “grabber’ (almost as good as the show’s “overture”). It’s a year or so ago and Danny Burstein emerges from a dark subway stairway to see the blazing lights of THE Broadway theatre where he stars in the latest revival of the show. He casually strolls to the stage entrance, signs his name to the list (just like all the cast) and marches into his dressing room to start “warming up”. After a few of his comments, the film pulls a near whiplash-inducing flashback to the late 1950s, when several talents met with the intention of bringing a musical adaptation of the stories created by Sholem Aleichman (a nice shot of his statue follows). They wisely decided to focus on one of the author’s most beloved characters, Tevye the milkman ( he had made to the movies in the late 30s in a Yiddish-language film). We get lots of screen time with those creators, archival interviews with composer Jerry Bock and playwright/adaptor Joseph Stein, along with recent footage of lyricist Sheldon Harnick. “Super producer” Hal Prince reluctantly signs on, as does prickly director/choreographer Jerome Robbins (fresh from his double Oscar win). An actor from that original production, Austin Pendelton, relates some juicy backstage stories (bye, bye whimsical song about the returning messiah). We’re told of the show’s long run, as it shattered Broadway records, leading to the celebrated movie version and tales from the film’s director Norman Jewison and its star Topol. The most surprising “miracle’ is the show’s astounding success outside NYC. The little town of Anatevka seems to take over the world (a lengthy run in Japan), eventually getting to the schools (we see a college in Thailand) with children pasting on beards. All along we hear from the show’s legacy: the sons of the first two Tevyes, Josh Mostel (son of Zero) and Michael Bernardi (son of Hershel who starred in an all Yiddish Broadway revival directed by Joel Grey), and “super fan” Lin Manuel-Miranda. This is all topped off with a very moving performance by Michael and a troupe of performers in the story’s real setting (looking unchanged from over a hundred years).

Director/co-writer Max Lewkowicz (with Valerie Thomas) has crafted a most affectionate and respectful cinematic “mash note” to this immortal piece of entertainment. Though it often overuses the documentary trope of ‘talking heads”, those doing the talking are most enthusiastic, having lots to tell, especially concerning the aforementioned Robbins (“prickly” is pretty tame). At first, he acts as the “villain” of the tale, but his background presents him as the story’s truly tragic real character. The film doesn’t shy away from the show’s many controversies, mainly its “toning down” of the religious persecution. We even get a glimpse of the ‘firestorm” about an inner-city school performing the show, with protesters upset about African-American and Hispanic children playing the roles. Thankfully, an audiotape of their show survives, lettering us hear the “cracking” pre-teen voices belting out those tunes. And what tunes. Most shows are lucky to have two “standards”, while this one has a couple of songs often heard at weddings. Speaking of those events, we get to see Mr. Miranda joining his father-in-law for a joyous rendition of “To Life” on the reception dance floor. Plus we’re treated to some nice animated sequences, simple watercolor-like art to set the mood (the same can be said of the famous work of Marc Chagall, whose pieces inspired the stage backdrops vis Boris Aronson, the ad poster, and even the show’s title). And there’s Topol’s (chosen for the film because he exuded more “sex appeal” than Zero) hilarious story of his agony during the filming of his “big number” (you may not look at it the same way again). For “theatre geeks” this doc will add to their already great love of the show’s history and “Tradition”. For the casual fan, FIDDLER: A MIRACLE OF MIRACLES is the best example of “infotainment”, leaving you humming those gorgeous melodies from “Sunrise” to “Sunset”! “All day long you’ll biddy-biddy-boom”.

3 out of 4

FIDDLER: MIRACLE OF MIRACLES opens everywhere and screens exclusively in the St. Louis area at Landmark’s Plaza Frontenac Cinemas and the Hi-Pointe’s Backlot Theatre.

Win Run-Of-Engagement Passes To IT CHAPTER TWO

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Evil resurfaces in Derry as director Andy Muschietti reunites the Losers Club—young and adult—in a return to where it all began with “It Chapter Two.”

The film is Muschietti’s follow-up to 2017’s critically acclaimed and massive worldwide box office hit “IT,” which grossed over $700 million globally. Both redefining and transcending the genre, “IT” became part of the cultural zeitgeist as well as the highest-grossing horror film of all time.

Because every 27 years evil revisits the town of Derry, Maine, “It Chapter Two” brings the characters—who’ve long since gone their separate ways—back together as adults, nearly three decades after the events of the first film.

Oscar nominee Jessica Chastain (“Zero Dark Thirty,” “Mama”) stars as Beverly, James McAvoy (“Split,” upcoming “Glass”) as Bill, Bill Hader (HBO’s “Barry,” “The Skeleton Twins”) as Richie, Isaiah Mustafa (TV’s “Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments”) as Mike, Jay Ryan (TV’s “Mary Kills People”) as Ben, James Ransone (HBO’s “The Wire”) as Eddie, and Andy Bean (“Allegiant,” Starz’ “Power”) as Stanley. Reprising their roles as the original members of the Losers Club are Jaeden Martell as Bill, Wyatt Oleff as Stanley, Jack Dylan Grazer as Eddie, Finn Wolfhard as Richie, Sophia Lillis as Beverly, Chosen Jacobs as Mike, and Jeremy Ray Taylor as Ben. Bill Skarsgård returns in the seminal role of Pennywise.

Muschietti directed the film from a screenplay by Gary Dauberman (“IT,” “Annabelle: Creation”) based on the novel IT by Stephen King. Barbara Muschietti, Dan Lin and Roy Lee produced the film, with Marty Ewing, Seth Grahame-Smith and David Katzenberg serving as the executive producers.

The behind-the-scenes creative team included director of photography Checco Varese (“The 33”), Oscar-winning production designer Paul Denham Austerberry (“The Shape of Water”), editor Jason Ballantine (“IT,” “Mad Max: Fury Road”), and Oscar-nominated costume designer Luis Sequeira (“The Shape of Water,” “Mama”). The music is by Benjamin Wallfisch (“Shazam!,” “Blade Runner 2049,” “IT”).

New Line Cinema presents, a Vertigo Entertainment/Rideback Production, an Andy Muschietti film, “It Chapter Two.” The film is slated for release in theaters and IMAX on September 6, 2019 and will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures.

BLACK CHRISTMAS Gets A Holiday Poster And New Trailer – In theaters Friday the 13th of December

Sisters never stand down.

From Blumhouse, the producer of Get Out and Halloween check out the brand new trailer for BLACK CHRISTMAS.

Just in time for the holidays comes a timely take on a cult horror classic as a campus killer comes to face a formidable group of friends in sisterhood.

Hawthorne College is quieting down for the holidays. But as Riley Stone (Imogen Poots, Green Room) and her Mu Kappa Epsilon sisters—athlete Marty (Lily Donoghue, The CW’s Jane the Virgin), rebel Kris (Aleyse Shannon, The CW’s Charmed), and foodie Jesse (Brittany O’Grady, Fox’s Star)—prepare to deck the halls with a series of seasonal parties, a black-masked stalker begins killing sorority women one by one.

As the body count rises, Riley and her squad start to question whether they can trust any man, including Marty’s beta-male boyfriend, Nate (Simon Mead, Same But Different: A True New Zealand Love Story), Riley’s new crush Landon (Caleb Eberhardt, Amazon’s Mozart in the Jungle) or even esteemed classics instructor Professor Gelson (Cary Elwes).

Whoever the killer is, he’s about to discover that this generation’s young women aren’t about to be anybody’s victims.

This December, on Friday the 13th, ring in the holidays by dreaming of a Black Christmas. 

Imogen Poots as Riley in Black Christmas, co-written and directed by Sophia Takal.

From director Sophia Takal (Always Shine) from the script she wrote with April Wolfe (Widower), comes a bold new take on the 1974 slasher classic produced by Jason Blum (Halloween, Split) for his Blumhouse Productions, by Ben Cosgrove (The Good German, Rumor Has It) and by Adam Hendricks (Cam, Bloodline, Lucky) for Divide/Conquer. Blumhouse’s Couper Samuelson and Jeanette Volturno will executive produce with Divide/Conquer’s Greg Gilreath and Zac Locke.

Imogen Poots as Riley in Black Christmas, co-written and directed by Sophia Takal.
Lindsay (Lucy Currey) in Black Christmas, co-written and directed by Sophia Takal.
(from left) Riley (Imogen Poots) and a black-masked killer in Black Christmas, co-written and directed by Sophia Takal.

Cinema St. Louis’ Golden Anniversaries: Films of 1969 Series Continues With EASY RIDER This Sunday September 8th at 1:30pm

“You know, this used to be a helluva good country. I can’t understand what’s gone wrong with it.”

Golden Anniversaries: Films of 1969 features 6 classic films celebrating their 50th anniversaries. This second edition focuses on 1969 and features a half-dozen films, all screening for free at the St. Louis Public Library (1301 Olive Street St. Louis) over 3 weekends in late summer.  (This series kicked off August 31st at 1:30pm with MIDNIGHT COWBOY). On Saturday September 14th at 1:30pm the ’69 film will be THE WILD BUNCH directed by Sam Peckinpah. There will be an intro and post-film Q&A with W.K. Stratton, author of The Wild Bunch: Sam Peckinpah, a Revolution in Hollywood, and the Making of a Legendary Film . Admission is FREE. A Facebook invite can be found HERE

EASY RIDER (1969) is much more than a 60s relic – it’s still a great movie even today. I find it fascinating that Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda took Roger Corman material and gave it an European- influenced arthouse approach. Combined with breathtaking visuals, a well-chosen rock soundtrack and some classic, stoned, improvised dialogue EASY RIDER is still an impressive movie all these years later. Fonda had recently made THE WILD ANGELS, Hopper the less remembered THE GLORY STOMPERS, and Jack Nicholson HELLS ANGELS ON WHEELS, but EASY RIDER reinvented the biker movie (or technically created a new subgenre: the “hippy” Biker Film), and things were never quite the same in Hollywood for the rest of the Seventies. The supporting cast is interesting and includes a great role for the fantastically underrated Luke Askew as the “Stranger on Highway”, and cameos from the star’s buddies Robert Walker Jr, Luana Anders and Sabrina Scharf, as well Karen Black and Toni Basil’s New Orleans hookers, Look for Phil Spector’s coke snorting bit part, and a fleeting glimpse of young Grizzly Adams Dan Haggerty. You either love EASY RIDER or you don’t, and I’m most definitely in the former camp. A 1960s generation-defining counter-culture classic!

Here is the rest of the schedule for Cinema St. Louis’ Golden Anniversaries: Films of 1969 Series

The Wild Bunch Saturday, Sep. 14 at 1:00pm

Women in Love Sunday, Sep. 15 at 1:00pm

Crime Drama CANAL STREET Currently Available on Digital Platforms and DVD

Cinedigm and Smith Global Media announced that the Chicago crime drama CANAL STREET will arrive on digital platforms on August 20, 2019 and DVD on September 1, 2019. The film follows a young man arrested for the murder of a white classmate, while his father embraces his undying faith to fight in court for his son’s vindication. Check out the Trailer:

Bryshere Y. Gray (“Empire”,Sprinter) and Mykelti Williamson (Forrest Gump, Fences) star in this modern-day thriller, written, produced, and directed by Rhyan LaMarr. Additional cast members include Mekhi Phifer (8 Mile, “ER”), Kevin Quinn (“Bunk’d”), Woody McClain (The New Edition Story), and Lance Reddick (“The Wire”, John Wick: Chapter 3 Parabellum).

CANAL STREET is a telling the story of Kholi Styles (Gray) who is trying to get by in an unwelcoming new world. After he becomes the suspect of a mysterious death of a classmate, it’s up to his father, Jackie Styles (Williamson), an up-and-coming lawyer from the slums of Chicago, to defend his son in court and battle an outraged public before time runs out. Jackie fights to keep his faith and prove his son is not the monster the world has made him out to be.

BONUS FEATURES:

  • Canal Street: Behind-The-Scenes Featurette
  • The Women of Canal Street
  • The Men of Canal Street
  • Behind the Music of Canal Street

PAVAROTTI Arrives on Blu-ray Combo Pack Digital, and On Demand September 24th

A legendary performer comes into focus when Pavarotti arrives on Blu-ra Combo Pack (plus DVD & Digital), Digital, and On Demand September 24 from Lionsgate.

A legendary performer comes into focus when Pavarotti arrives on Blu-ray™ Combo Pack (plus DVD & Digital), Digital, and On Demand September 24 from Lionsgate. Directed by Academy Award®*, Golden Globe®**, Grammy®, Primetime Emmy®, and Daytime Emmy® winner Ron Howard (*2001, Best Director, A Beautiful Mind, **1999, Best Television Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television, “From the Earth to the Moon”) and produced by Grammy® and Primetime Emmy®-winning producer Nigel Sinclair (2011, Outstanding Nonfiction Special, George Harrison: Living in the Material World), Pavarotti tells the story of global sensation Luciano Pavarotti, who quickly gained notoriety worldwide for singing the aria “Nessun dorma” at the 1990 FIFA World Cup in Italy. Featuring testimonies from his fellow Three Tenors members Jośe Carreras and Plácido Domingo, the film also includes archive footage featuring Spike Lee, Princess Diana, Nelson Mandela, and Stevie Wonder. Including making-of featurettes, which dive further into Pavarotti’s work and legacy, the Pavarotti Blu-ray will be available for the suggested retail price of $29.99.

From Academy Award®-winning director Ron Howard comes this wonderfully intimate portrait of Luciano Pavarotti, the most beloved opera singer of all time. Interweaving Pavarotti’s genre-defining performances with revealing, never-before-seen footage, Pavarotti is a movie experience as singularly entertaining as its legendary subject.


BLU-RAY / DVD / DIGITAL SPECIAL FEATURES

  • “Friends of Pavarotti” Featurette
  • “The Entertainer” Featurette
  • “Ron Howard on Pavarotti” Featurette

Will Smith and Martin Lawrence Return In BAD BOYS FOR LIFE

BAD BOYS FOR LIFE

Opening on January 17, 2020 is BAD BOYS FOR LIFE.

The Bad Boys Mike Lowrey (Will Smith) and Marcus Burnett (Martin Lawrence) are back together for one last ride in the highly anticipated Bad Boys for Life.

AS Will Smith said, “WOOOOSAAAHH, Y’all! Calm Down… January is right around the corner.”

The film also features Vanessa Hudgens, Alexander Ludwig and Joe Pantoliano.

BAD BOYS FOR LIFE is produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and Will Smith.