The King of Staten Island matches the comedian's dark, confessional comedy with the Knocked Up director's sentimentalist streak — in a film that's endearing if overstuffed.
Judd Apatow's enduring survey of arrested masculinity finds its latest avatar in Pete Davidson, the Saturday Night Live comedian — and briefly,— who brings his real-life history to the 40-Year-Old Virgin and Knocked Up director's first film in five years.
We meet Scott hanging out in his suburban basement, getting high and watching The Purge with his stoner buddies and their girls, a sadly-laminated poster for Child's Play 2, of all things, hanging on the dank wall behind them. The Queens-born, Long Island-raised Apatow and his Staten Island-native star mostly focus on the working people whose neighbourhoods have yet to experience the gentrification that ruined Brooklyn, evoking a landscape where wait staff at pizza joints literally fight for their tips and residents remain the butt of New York class jokes.
To Scott's horror, Ray — who's also a fireman — soon starts hooking up with Scott's mum and muscling his way into the house. Apatow hasn't lost his affinity for a certain type of responsibility-challenged, straight male experience, and the scenes set in and around the New York firefighting department, in particular — with their Minor League baseball trips, drunken bar singalongs, and recovering cokehead Steve Buscemi — accord the film an appealing, working-man dimension.Davidson first met Burr as a teenager, when his mother urged him to speak to his hero after an Atlantic City stand-up show.
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