Directed by: Brad Radby
Starring: Bruce Willis, Antonio Banderas, Keanu Reeves, Keira Knightly, Hilary Swank
Critics Average: 4/5 Stars
Box Office (US): $277M
BRAD RADBY’S SYNOPSIS
At the start of the movie, Bruce Willis is Cousin Larry, and his Balki is Antonio Banderas, and they are new roommates in the big city. Bruce is really excited to meet his cousin from Mypos, but he doesn’t know that Antonio’s also an assassin sent to kill the President, who is Keanu.
Bruce’s wife is dead, and she is Hilary Swank in a quick cameo at the start, and then also later throughout the movie when he has bad dreams, and Hilary is like, “Bruuuuce…saaaave meee…I loooove youuu…” and that’s in slow motion because it’s a dream. Bruce wakes up sweating and grabbing his gun when this happens the first two times, but not the third time, because he’s going to start growing as a person again by that point, so the first time he grabs the gun is his meme.
So one day Bruce is doing his job at the advertising store, and Antonio comes to help, and he is trying to do his romancing on Bruce’s work friend, who is Keira Knightly. Keira thinks Antonio is nice, but she wonders why he asked so much about the funny online internet viral video they are doing for the President, who remember is Keanu.
Bruce asks nosey questions when they go out to dinner, and Antonio smells the truth coming on, so he does karaoke to stop the confrontations, which is a Mypos song called The Dance of Joy.
They are like, “Die-die-die-die-die, hey-hey-hey-hey!” and then Antonio picks up Bruce in his arms, and Bruce asks why the song has the word “die” so much, and that’s when Antonio knows he’s been caught in his big murder lie.
They have a fist-fight about being liars to each other, and Antonio says that the viral video they’re making for Keanu will make anyone who watches it have a heart attack, and that he’s going to play it on TV in Mypos, and Antonio is here to stop him.
Bruce says Keira is taking the viral video to Keanu right now, and they’re about to have a race against time in Bruce’s cool Mustang. That’s when Keanu sends the Army to get involved, and turns on his laptop computer to like change stoplights for the chase, and also he took Keira hostage, and is like “no-no-no” with his finger when she tries to find a way to delete the viral video at the last second.
After the big car chase with the Army and a hilarious pair of ice cream truck drivers, who are the original Balki and Cousin Larry, Bruce and Antonio get to the White House, and Keanu is about to push the button that says VIRAL VIDEO UPLOAD. There’s a fist-fight, an explosion, a Keira Knightly rescue, and another fist-fight, but not in that order.
They save the day, and Antonio comes to work at the advertising store, but Keanu gets re-elected. Late one night, he’s the last one up at the White House, and he taps the map of Mypos and goes, “Boom that…” and that’s how everyone knows there’s a sequel.
Over the credits everyone does the Dance of Joy on the movie set, and Hilary is back and she’s smoking a pipe so Bruce can find his happiness again.
BRAD RADBY’S PRODUCTION NOTES
1) After we got home from the Super Airplane ride, everyone was asking about The Exploders the most, but after that they asked why I changed Cousin Larry to an advertising person when he is a paparazzi on the TV show?
2) My answer is always to tell people to look at my wiener.
3) LOL!!
4) We made a viral video as like marketing for the viral video in the movie, and the one we made really gave someone a heart attack so we didn’t put it out.
5) It was really good though – I watched it and that was my first heart attack that wasn’t because of nose candy.
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