Synopsis
Frank Bartlett has been tortured, embarrassed, and humiliated by his brother Bruce — usually on film — his entire life. Now that Bruce is finally off drugs and has turned his life around, things should be different. They are not.
Your Movie Library
Cast
- Charlie HunnamFrankie
- Chris O'DowdBruce
- Lizzy CaplanLassie
- Ron PerlmanPhyllis
- Chris NothJack
- Whitney CummingsClaudia
- Nora DunnKaren
- Sam AndersonChris
- Kate LuybenDharma
- Adam PallyBrandon
Recommendations
- 100
The New York Times
A vibrantly vulgar comedy that never hangs around to admire its own cleverness. - 70
Arizona Republic
Surprisingly, character actor Sam Anderson winds up stealing a lot of the film as Bruce and Frank's dad. He can take a line as innocuous as "We don't have cars right now. Bruce stole them for drugs" and turn it into something hilarious. - 63
Slant Magazine
The film never really goes soft, as Jordan Roberts never loses sight of the fact that these toxic nincompoops are authentically bad for one another. - 50
The A.V. Club
Everyone plays against type in 3, 2, 1… Frankie Go Boom, none more so than Ron Perlman, who has a small role as a post-op transsexual hacker. - 40
Time Out
Lovers of the TV biker drama may find pleasure in the duo's surreal scenes together, but everyone else will likely view this story about a writer (Hunnam), his film-obsessed drug-addict brother (Chris O'Dowd) and a viral amateur-porn movie as one limp farce. - 40
Village Voice
Less inept than its worst-of-the-year title suggests, 3, 2, 1 . . . Frankie Go Boom nonetheless proves too ramshackle and aimless to ever achieve true absurdity. - 38
New York Post
A raunchy, sporadically funny comedy. - 30
NPR
Tragically unfunny, Frankie is occasionally elevated by some of its gifted and game cast, but the film's nasty, comedically incoherent script limits its potential.
