If you enjoy Steve Martin, it will be watchable.
If not - it won't be.
With that said, I think this could have been a cult classic.
The major flaw - it spent too much time on his evangelizing.
(I know that sounds like a funny thing to say considering the premise of the show - but it crosses into 'you have to actually enjoy evangelizing to be able to stomach the extended scenes of it'; and lets face it, people who are watching this are watching it because they don't enjoy it.) Maybe a premise destined to fail.
'Make fun of annoying thing' via 'having a story about annoying thing' = 'just another annoying thing'.
The film also suffers from not developing his ensemble.
It shows just enough of them to make you want to know what their deal is - without ever really bringing them into the mix.
The same flaw movies like The Hobbit would still be making 20 years later. Never have an ensemble unless you're going to develop them.
Basically, the movie is 'applause funny' vs 'laugh out loud funny'.
Like a Bill Maher stand up routine.
If not - it won't be.
With that said, I think this could have been a cult classic.
The major flaw - it spent too much time on his evangelizing.
(I know that sounds like a funny thing to say considering the premise of the show - but it crosses into 'you have to actually enjoy evangelizing to be able to stomach the extended scenes of it'; and lets face it, people who are watching this are watching it because they don't enjoy it.) Maybe a premise destined to fail.
'Make fun of annoying thing' via 'having a story about annoying thing' = 'just another annoying thing'.
The film also suffers from not developing his ensemble.
It shows just enough of them to make you want to know what their deal is - without ever really bringing them into the mix.
The same flaw movies like The Hobbit would still be making 20 years later. Never have an ensemble unless you're going to develop them.
Basically, the movie is 'applause funny' vs 'laugh out loud funny'.
Like a Bill Maher stand up routine.