So I just watched Trainwreck and, I’m sorry to say, I’m not sure it quite lived up to the hype.

That’s not to say it was bad, it was quite good, but it seems just shy of the 85% Rotten Tomatoes gives it.
Just a quick synopsis, Trainwreck is a rom-com about a hard-drinking (and occasionally smoking) woman named Amy (Amy Schumer) who took her father’s message of ‘monogamy is not realistic’ to heart. She then meets sports doctor Aaron Connors (Bill Hader) and basically that monogamy theory is put to the test when she falls in love.

Simple right? What went wrong? Well, you see, Schumer, Hader, and to a slightly smaller extent Colin Quinn, who plays Amy’s father, basically carry the movie. They’re great in it. And maybe because of that, the rest of supporting cast, especially the sports cameos, seemed largely irrelevant. Even the cast of SNL showed up and while they provided some charming moments (Leslie Jones especially) they still felt kind of unnecessary. In fact, the supporting casts humor seemed just a little bit cheap at times. The gender reversal was quite interesting, however, with the commitment-phobe, promiscuous character being the girl and the person who actually wants the relationship being the guy, and there was a nice dose of family drama to add some depth. So don’t get me wrong, there was a lot right here. But in the end, the movie had a lot of filler. It could’ve been just Schumer, Hader, and Quinn, with perhaps some appearances from the character Amy’s sister’s family, just to flesh out the family drama, and the movie would probably have been much better, or at least more solid.