Game Over, Man! (2018) Review

Game Over, Man! (2018)

Game Over, Man! follows three friends, Alexxx, Darren, and Baby Dunk, who, while working a hotel party for the Bae Awadi, must find a way to save the day after it is taken hostage by terrorists. 

From the same crew that brought us Workaholics, comes Game Over, Man!, which in all honesty is just Die Hard with idiots at the helm, so you can roughly guess how this one turns out. The thing with Workaholics is that, for when it came out (2011), it was funny, capturing this crude middle space between Seth Rogan’s stoner humor and the social media platform Vine. And so if Game Over, Man! had come out then, I think in most respects, it would’ve been a hilarious hit. The issue is, it comes almost a decade too late and the world has well progressed past that type of stupid, dick-joke-y, sex humor, leaving us a with an oddly serious spoof film that is sprinkled with comedy that just doesn’t land like it used to when most of us were adolescent losers. 

That said, it’s hard to deny that when we stick with our main trio of Alexxx, Darren, and Joel/Baby Dunk, this does remain fairly entertaining. They have a particular chemistry about them that feels real and inherently a bit funny in its timing, using Alexxx as the stupid comedy relief he often is while lifting up Darren and Baby Dunk as the mostly level headed guys in the group. Obviously when we cut away though, that momentum loses loads of steam, especially when we have characters like the Bae casually boasting about eating out his dogs asshole. It’s fucking stupid and just shows how out of touch most of the movie is in terms of it’s audience. 

We get a pretty typical cast, starring Mac Brandt, Neal McDonough, Sam Richardson, Daniel Stern, Steve Howey, Rhona Mitra, Aya Cash, Jamie Demetriou, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Blake Anderson, Anders Holm, and Adam DeVine. While Anderson, Holm, and DeVine no doubt make a fun pairing, their brand of humor is nearly a decade too late, coming off as just really dated and immature now. 

Game Over, Man!, directed by Kyle Newacheck, is a fun little spoof on Die Hard, but it tries to bring back a style of humor that just isn’t really funny anymore, falling flat in it’s hopes to bring back the team from Workaholics. 

4.1/10