Premise: A manager at not-an-Olive Garden gets invited to a special workshop in Italy where suspicious things begin to happen.
I hate to be the "why can't funny people just be funny" guy but...well, that's my exact response to this movie. I watched it because the cast includes Alison Brie, Fred Armisen, Ego Nwodim, Molly Shannon, Lil Rel Howery, Aubrey Plaza, and Zach Woods. And the movie is technically a comedy. It's that "too clever for its own good" comedy though. The movie is kind of awkward. It turns into a kind of thriller before revealing that it's not at the end. It's the kind of movie that's funnier to describe it afterwards than when you watch it. Because, yes, it is funny that pig attacks were a red herring and the wild sex party is just the result of millionaires who are out of touch with what's actually normal. It just was not very funny as I watched it. It all felt like it was more concerned with duping the audience than entertaining it.
I do like that there's this weird offshoot of comedy with this crowd of people. It sometimes yields results like Safety Not Guaranteed or The Little Hours. This one is just a miss on a big swing.
Verdict: Strongly Don't Recommend
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