Think about how many films and TV specials Kevin Hart has been involved in during the past 2 years. I don't think that there are very many other A-list people that have been as constantly busy as he has been. I'm not going to count them but it seems as though every time I turn on Netflix they have something new with him in it and like a lot of people out there have mentioned, they are all basically the same.
This formula worked for a while and for the most part I would say that while none of Kevin Hart's stuff other than his stand up has been particularly fantastic, they were all above average in entertainment value. Unfortunately there are major aspects of basically any film that he is in and all of these attributes end up being the same and now, it is starting to become boring.
[src](https://magarila.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/%E2%80%98Me-Time-Poster-819x1024.jpg)When I popped open my Netflix Home screen I was greeted like I always am, with the stuff they really want me to watch because it is new and Netflix has some sort of vested interest in it. I was already kind of becoming a bit fed up with Kevin Hart because he is simply in too much stuff but the addition of Mark Wahlberg is what really got me on the line to watch this.
The trailer was reasonably good so I settled in expecting to maybe, just maybe see something with some unique chemistry because I don't recall Wahlberg and Hart doing anything together in the past. I wasn't very far into the film before I realized that this was going to contain all the elements that basically every Kevin Hart comedy has.
- "I'm short and that's funny!"
- "I'm not very coordinated and fall down or bump into stuff or fall on my ass or other slapstick crap....and that's funny!"
- "I've got a trophy wife / girlfriend that is much taller than I am and she is way out of my league.... and that's funny!"
- "I've got a friend that is the polar opposite of me and he puts me into uncomfortable situations that I am not ready for and do not excel at all at.... and that's funny"
Go ahead and try to refute the above, it's basically the same elements of every...single... Kevin Hart comedy movie.
True Story was really the only thing I can think of recently that wasn't a typical Hart comedy and that was actually really good. I was amazed that they didn't use Kevin's height problems as comedic relief even once.
The story in Me Time is that Kevin Hart plays "Sonny" who is a stay-at-home Dad and he is actually really good at it. He keeps in touch with his childhood best friend who lives a life of extremes and always has. This best-friend named "Huck" is played by Mark Wahlberg and at first it looked like it might work as a comedy duo but then, right on cue, they started going for the usual slapstick, look-at-me-I'm-short jokes.
One thing Huck is known for is throwing crazy birthday parties every year involving a bunch of people at great expense to himself. As far as Sonny knows, Huck is extremely wealthy and that is why he can afford to throw these parties. Sonny kind of idolizes Huck because their lives have become so different but one year, on Huck's 44th birthday, Sonny agrees to go along with the party. What follows is an absolute mess of things that are supposed to be funny but just simply are not. The scenarios are absurd and it even includes a poorly CGI'd portion where Sonny is mauled by a mountain lion because Sonny finds one of the kittens while doing nothing other than wandering off to have a poo in the desert because that is what people do.
I don't know what compelled them to include this scene because it does nothing for the progression of the story other than to have Hart shouting frantically with his man-child voice and the fight sequence is so clearly fake that it drags down an already very poor plot-line.
Things just keep getting worse and worse for the party until eventually the good guys come together and form an unlikely alliance to save the day.
I could have told you that this was going to happen without ever having seen any of the film because this is what ends up happening in literally every single Hart action/comedy film.
Should I watch it?
I find most of Kevin's movies to at least be entertaining or at the minimum, bearable but this one was a bit too much for me. I think that Kevin may be fast approaching the end of his welcome as far as making a dozen movies a year is concerned and in many ways this might have been a wise move on his part. Strike while the iron's hot, as they say. Will Ferrell did this years ago and there is a reason why he doesn't really do very much anymore. He kind of wore out the audience and nobody really wants to see him in movies now. I suppose if you can make $100 million in 5 years that one shouldn't really care if they are still producing quality content and that is exactly what this movie feels like.
I didn't laugh at all during the movie. I never even came close to doing so. In fact, I ended up skipping large portions of the movie because it's just stupid. I can't really even blame this on Mark Wahlberg but it certainly didn't do much for his career either. Me Time currently enjoys and 8% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and has been met with almost exclusively negative reviews.
I think it might be time for Kevin to take Ron Burgundy's sage advice to heart: "Why don't you sit the next couple of plays out."
