Fist Fight
Fist Fightmay be as slight as a half-hour sitcom comedy, but enough of its R-Rated jokes hit their target to sustain the movie’s brisk runtime.
It ’s the last 24-hour interval of the school year at Roosevelt High School and the students are out in full - force , pulling a series of elaborate pranks on Roosevelt ’s hapless teaching faculty . Mild - mannered English instructor Andy Campbell ( Charlie Day ) is just doing his better to weather the violent storm , what with his pregnant wife being due to give nativity soon and his caper , as well as those of his compeer , being up for administrative review . Unfortunately for Andy , he winds up witness his colleague and Roosevelt ’s resident raging instructor , Ron Strickland ( Ice Cube ) , putting his foot down in a not - so - professional elbow room after endure one student prank too many .
After being face by Roosevelt ’s Principal Richard Tyler ( Dean Norris ) with the threat of losing his line of work , Andy admits to find Ron ’s misbehavior - and despite his good efforts to smooth the site over , fetch Strickland fired as a result . Strickland , now without a job and shopworn of dealing with nonsense from both the scholar eubstance and the school administrator , thus decide there ’s only one direction for he and Andy to properly settle their differences : with a slugfest in the schooling parking lot , at the end of the day . Can Andy get out of this bulk large showdown … or is he just going to have confuse - down with Strickland and hope that he does n’t get himself kill , in the physical process ?
The R - RatedFist Fightnot only pair actors Charlie Day and Ice Cube against one another in a lewd drollery setting , it also juxtaposes their various comedic personas - carefully honed through the cult bump off TV showIt ’s Always Sunny in Philadelphiaand movie franchise such asFridayand most recently , Ride Along , severally - opposite one another , for funny purposes . The result picture is n’t exactly a significant clowning offering nor one that has much in the way of heart ( or brains ) , but the " Day vs. Cube " match-up proves to be more effective than less in the end . Fist Fightmay be as svelte as a half - hr sitcom comedy , but enough of its R - Rated jokes strike their target to support the movie ’s brisk runtime .
Co - written by relative fledgling Evan Susser and Van Robichaux ( found on a account they co - compose withNew Girl ’s Max Greenfield),Fist Fightis at most a all-embracing , thin - sketched satire of the modern public education system and its taxonomical problems . By and gravid , however , the issues raised in the film with school administrators and their law serve as a background to irreverent comedy sequences and uncouth joke based around the oddball teachers , as well as the misdemean educatee , that inhabit the high school world ofFist Fight . Whereas something like21 Jump Streetsucceeds at gracefully incorporating self-coloured character import and paying attention observations about the innovative - day gamy school experience into its grimy comedy proceeding , Fist Fightonly really manages to deliver the latter - making it a risible experience to keep an eye on unfold in the moment , but also one that fades from retentivity quickly afterwards .
Fist Fightdirector Richie Keen is a longtime boob tube sitcom steerer ( as well as a veteran ofIt ’s Always cheery , as it were ) and as such , takes a formal , but sturdy approach to visualizing the film ’s various comedy bent pieces and scenario as they unfold - with the episodic flourishes , for greater comedic effect . Keen , as indicated , achieves a good horse sense of pacing throughout the movie thanks to his collaborative efforts withFist Fighteditor Matthew Freund ( Children ’s Hospital ) , in turn keeping the cast and their improvisation on a mingy leash by New comedy standard . There are certainly point whereFist Fightlooks and finger like a transfigure TV show in terms of its construction , but as a whole it ’s polished enough visually to sense more like a movie than three episodes of a video serial , play back - to - back .
Charlie Day and Ice Cube are n’t stretching their work abilities here either , playing ( respectively ) the well - significance but psychoneurotic and put - upon Mr. Cooper and firmly - edged , no - hokum , authoritarian Mr. Strickland . even so , the two handgrip their roles with relief inFist Fightand wager well off one another through their interactions together , making their odd couple mate a solid one . Both Cooper and Strickland have but thinly - force character bow over the course of instruction of the story here , but it ’s enough to give the moving-picture show a right three - human activity narrative to hangs its various gags and persist jokes upon . likewise , both Day and Cube prove practiced at playing the straight humankind opposite the film ’s supporting cast - one which is populated by a surprising number of tv grapheme actors , recreate the ( typically zany ) teaching staff of Roosevelt High School .
Most of the teachers and administrators inFist Fightare two - dimensional archetypes at most , but they drive home their fair contribution of successful jocularity and generally keep off wearing out their welcome , during their onscreen appearances . Jillian Bell leads the armorial bearing in this respect as Roosevelt ’s own morally - dubious educatee pleader Holly , while Tracy Morgan will a softer impression , but a welcome one with his return to bouncy - natural process on the big filmdom , as Roosevelt ’s not - so - competent Coach Crawford . TV standouts such as Dean Norris ( Breaking Bad ) and Kumail Nanjiani ( Silicon Valley ) have bit roles inFist Fighttoo , though the scene - stealer among their ranks is easilyMad Men ’s Christina Hendricks as Ms. Monet : a teacher with a ( sorta secret ) twisted side .
Irreverent and mostly silliness for its own sake , Fist Fightmakes for a passable former year Hollywood comedy offering and should be the most entertaining for those motion-picture fan who are fans of either Ice Cube ’s stick - in - the - clay baffling guy act and/or Charlie Day ’s well - trod , uneasy comedy shtick . Fist Fightis essentially Richie Keen ’s first time mastermind for the big screen and although it ’s an routine debut , Keen stimulate the transition from directing TV to film smooth than others before him . At the very least , Fist Fightshould offer some psychotherapeutic laughs for those who are familiar with the sometimes - comically maddening experience of create a living at a in high spirits school nowadays .
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clenched fist Fightis now playing in U.S. theaters . It is 91 minutes long and is Rated R for language throughout , sexual content / nudity and drug cloth .
Directed by Richie Keen , Fist Fight is a clowning moving picture that was expel in 2017 and asterisk Ice Cube , Jillian Bell , Charlie Day , and Tracy Morgan . The moving picture follow the tarradiddle of two faculty member at a school that become the subject of a clowning and finish up in a tense situation with one another as biliousness flare .
Tracy Morgan, Jillian Bell and Charlie Day in Fist Fight
Tracy Morgan, Jillian Bell and Charlie Day in Fist Fight
