Films like National Lampoon's The Legend of Awesomest Maximus.
National Lampoon's The Legend of Awesomest Maximus (2011) reads as Warm, breathless, gentle comedy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.
Keeps the chilly detachment and the clean studio craft — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the chilly detachment and the clean studio craft — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the chilly detachment and the clean studio craft — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the chilly detachment and the clean studio craft — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the chilly detachment and the clean studio craft — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the chilly detachment and the clean studio craft — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the chilly detachment and the clean studio craft — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the clean studio craft and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the chilly detachment and the clean studio craft; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.
Keeps the chilly detachment and the clean studio craft; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.
Keeps the chilly detachment and the clean studio craft; trades toward a warm emotional register.
Keeps the chilly detachment and the clean studio craft; trades toward a white-knuckle intensity.
These are National Lampoon's The Legend of Awesomest Maximus’s neighbours — where are yours?
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