Something has evolved over the last couple of years. It started with Owen Willson and Ben Stiller appearing in a couple of films together. Zoolander (which I still think is damn funny even though most of you seems to think it sucks), Meet the Parents, and The Royal Tenenbaums (as well as becoming annual presenters together as the Oscars). Then this bubble started to expand to include Luke Wilson, Will Ferrell and Vince Vaughn appearing in each others films. This is just a quick list off the top of my head:
Zoolander (Stiller, O.Wilson, Ferrell)
Meet The Parents (Stiller, O. Wilson)
The Royal Tenebaums (Stiller, O.Wilson, L. Wilson)
Old School (Vaughn, Ferrell, L.Wilson)
Starsky & Hutch (Stiller, O.Wilson, Vaughn, Ferrell)
Dodgeball (Stiller, Vaughn)
Anchorman (ALL of them)
Anyway, these are just a few that I’ve pulled off the top of my head. Now I’ll come out and say that I’ve pretty much enjoyed all the films on that list. There’s something novel about a group of actors that all work together in their projects… kinda making them a new Rat Pack of Hollywood. But now with the announcement of Outsourced (with Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn), the question has arisen in our Comments Section if this is getting to be a bit too much… at least so regualrly. One reader, thesecretcafe, suggested the problem isn’t that their stuff isn’t good… it’s just that we’re getting oversaturated with their movies too fast. It seems like every 6 months a new Rat Pack film is coming out… and they all seem to have the same style of comedy to them (with the exception of Meet The Parents or Tenebaums). I mean let’s face it, Ben Stiller’s character in Dodgeball was basically the same guy as Zoolander with a bit of a mean streak (he even had one or two of the same lines).
The bottom line is this: I love all these guys, and to this point I’ve REALLY enjoyed all the films they’ve worked on together… but guys… SLOW DOWN. Maybe give us one film a year with 2 or more of you in it. Because at this rate, even though you’re not getting old, your material is going to be… and I don’t want to see that happen.
By the way folks… did I miss any of the movies they’ve been together in?
