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Watch: The King of Staten Island 2020 123movies, Full Movie Online – Scott has been a case of arrested development ever since his firefighter father died when he was seven. He’s now reached his mid-20s having achieved little, chasing a dream of becoming a tattoo artist that seems far out of reach. As his ambitious younger sister heads off to college, Scott is still living with his exhausted ER nurse mother and spends his days smoking weed, hanging with the guys – Oscar, Igor and Richie – and secretly hooking up with his childhood friend Kelsey. But when his mother starts dating a loudmouth firefighter named Ray, it sets off a chain of events that will force Scott to grapple with his grief and take his first tentative steps toward moving forward in life..
Plot: Scott has been a case of arrested development ever since his firefighter father died when he was seven. He’s now reached his mid-20s having achieved little, chasing a dream of becoming a tattoo artist that seems far out of reach. As his ambitious younger sister heads off to college, Scott is still living with his exhausted ER nurse mother and spends his days smoking weed, hanging with the guys — Oscar, Igor and Richie — and secretly hooking up with his childhood friend Kelsey. But when his mother starts dating a loudmouth firefighter named Ray, it sets off a chain of events that will force Scott to grapple with his grief and take his first tentative steps toward moving forward in life.
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Ratings:

	7.1/10 Votes: 68,493
	75% | RottenTomatoes
	67/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 778 Popularity: 19.734 | TMDB

Reviews:

Pete Davidson has had a rough career and is viewed in a somewhat bad light, mainly due to terrible “cancel culture“ trends. If you go in wanting hate him, you will, but that defeats the heart of the film. ‘The King of Staten Island’ shines as both as semi-autobiographical film and another fantastic entry in Judd Apatow’s ever-growing filmography.
– Chris dos Santos

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Judd Apatow has directed/produced some hilarious pieces of cinema: Trainwreck, Bridesmaids, Superbad, Knocked Up, The 40 Year Old Virgin… He’s got quite the filmography, there’s no way of denying it. Therefore, his name alone is enough to grab my attention when a comedy co-written and directed by him comes along. Add Pete Davidson as a co-writer and the main star, plus a really fascinating cast with Marisa Tomei and Bill Burr, and I’m definitely interested. The King of Staten Island holds a formulaic premise (the whole “dead parent entails a bad kid who needs to learn how to be a better person” has been done to exhaustion), but is it able to elevate it in some way?

First of all, the dark humor really works for me. For anyone who doesn’t appreciate this type of comedy, Apatow’s film might be too excessive. Tons of unrestrained jokes about the most sensitive subjects, and characters with no limits to where they can go with their wicked sense of humor. So, if you’re not a fan of dark comedy, this movie might turn out to be a very unpleasant experience. However, if you have no issues with laughing at a “bad joke”, this comedy might just work well enough for you to have a good time. I had really good laughs.

Scott takes the “bad kid who does bad stuff” to a quite terrible (and sometimes illegal) level. He possesses all kinds of psychological issues that you can think of plus some more. He says the most depressing, sad, offensive things to anyone that crosses his path. Pete Davidson absolutely shines in this role, it really feels like he’s having an outstanding amount of fun. However, his character goes through such an overlong and exaggerated route that I could neither relate to nor feel sorry for him. This will make or break the film for any viewer: your emotional connection with the protagonist.

As I said in the beginning, the narrative follows a pretty cliche story that people have seen thousands of times. So, from the get-go, it’s fairly easy to understand where the movie is going, what’s going to change within the characters, and how it’s going to end. Screenplay surprises don’t come often in this genre, and even when they do, very rarely, they’re able to impact the audience in a way that completely changes our perspective on the film or its characters. The King of Staten Island is a movie that tells its viewers everything they need to know in the first ten to fifteen minutes, and then there’s nothing remotely new throughout.

It’s just way too long. A bit over two hours seeing someone trying to figure out what he’s going to do with his life is not exactly the best entertainment ever. There’s more than one way to try to relate to Pete Davidson’s character, but I really needed to dig deep to find one. As people probably know, Davidson’s father was also a firefighter who died in the 9/11 attacks, and this film clearly takes inspiration from Davidson’s life. It’s not his biography, but he definitely puts a lot of his own personal issues into Scott’s personality. Some people even state that he’s just portraying himself, and that’s not that far from the truth.

In my opinion, the best aspect of the movie is undoubtedly the incredibly realistic dialogues. It genuinely feels like the characters are having real conversations. The editing is so impeccable that I forgot I was watching a film for a couple of moments. The chemistry between every member of the cast is so vibrant that every single dialogue between any two characters always feels extremely lifelike. Marisa Tomei and Bill Burr are astonishing, they truly are. I wish more time was given to develop a bit more of Bel Powley’s personal subplot, but I understand that she’s far from being one of the most relevant characters.

In the end, The King of Staten Island employs a very well-known (and a bit overused) formula that goes on for way too long, but Judd Apatow balances it with a hilariously dark sense of humor, with the help of his co-writers, Pete Davidson and Dave Sirus. Most of the comedy really works, which helped to get through the least entertaining (and predictable) portions of the narrative. Davidson shines in a role that many addressed as “he’s just playing himself”, but I find him incredibly engaging and captivating to watch, even though I can’t quite relate to his character. The emotional attachment to the protagonist is the major component that’s either going to make you love this flick or spend a couple of hours just watching someone trying to figure out what to do with his life. The realistic dialogues (elevated by perfect editing) and the cast’s phenomenal chemistry just tip the scale to the positive side. I definitely recommend it, but with the small warning that if you’re not a fan of dark comedy, then it’s better to skip this one.

Rating: B-

Raw
The film is unapologetically introspective and raw. It feels amateurish at times, but overall it really works for the story that is being told. More of a drama than a comedy, but with some truly funny moments.

I resisted the urge to turn it off
What I usually like about Judd Apatows ‘films’ is that his directing style has a real casual/awkward improv style to it. Which works sometimes, and sometimes it doesn’t. It shines when interesting actors are able to let themselves shine through a role. When it works it’s genius, but when it doesn’t it really really doesn’t. Especially if the characters are as boring as they are in King of Staten Island.

I don’t really understand Hollywood’s push to kiss up to Pete Davidson, but it’s pretty annoying. This movie covered everything surrounding Pete Davison in the media over the past 5 years. Here are the boxes the movie checked: Dad’s a dead firefighter, has tattoos, from Staten Island, “I’m crazy, my heads all messed up” said in unwavering insincerity, and of course weed.

If you knew those things about Pete Davidson from the media already, then congrats, you just saved yourself almost 2.5 hours because then there is no need to watch the movie.

The most interesting aspect of this movie is when you get to entertain the idea that, instead of being a rich garbage-person, Pete Davidson is a poor garbage-person. That- and Bill Burr gets to revisit his role as an angry dude from Boston, which is always good for a laugh; almost like if an entire character were a catchphrase.

So I basically turned it off about like 15-20 mins into the movie when Pete’s mom is helping the sick kid- which is classic Apatow humor, but terribly executed. Then I came back to it thinking “maybe I’ll give it another shot” and then found myself wanting to turn it off a couple more times later in the movie.

After it finished, I found myself saying “we get it Pete, your dad was a firefighter.” In the words of the puking kid 15-20 mins in “everybody has problems”, I just don’t know why they insist we watch Pete Davidson’s ad nauseam.

My more technical critiques: the first act sucked- and vaguely representative of the events in the movie: he barely missed an accident he caused and kept driving saying “I’m sorry” over and over. So yeah, I get it, he barely missed jail and got some people all riled-up in the process and spent the latter portion of the second act trying to redeem himself. Cool. But he was never really “sorry”, he was just an A-hole until he had to cope. The climax sucked too; Action Bronson randomly shows up and Pete saves the day. Everything is magically better than it was before the movie started.

Trash. Save yourself 2.5 hours. Apatow should have kept making ‘Love’.

Yes.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 2 hr 16 min (136 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Comedy, Drama
Director Judd Apatow
Writer Judd Apatow, Pete Davidson, Dave Sirus
Actors Pete Davidson, Bel Powley, Ricky Velez
Country United States, China
Awards 3 wins & 24 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 2.39 : 1
Camera Panavision Panaflex Millennium XL2, Panavision PVintage and Super Speed MKII Lenses
Laboratory Company 3, Los Angeles (CA), USA (digital intermediate), Company 3, New York (NY), USA (dailies), Kodak Film Lab, New York (NY), USA (film processing)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm (Kodak Vision3 200T 5213, Vision3 500T 5219)
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (4K) (master format), Super 35 (3-perf) (source format)
Printed Film Format D-Cinema, Video (UHD)