It is official: Tim Robinson is a leading man. After slowly but stable building a biography working on TV over the years, Robinson is making the big canvas jump as a "friendship" starvet, a new comedy that co-stars Paul Rudd. "Friendship" premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival last year, and with sincerity, it seemed not to excitement like some other festival tickets. But the first trailer for the film arrived today by people in the A24, and the results look nothing amazing. Take a look at yourself.

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In "Friendship", Robinson plays Craig, a suburban man who begins to connect with his neighbor Austin, who plays Rudd. Works ... Don't go according to plan. Look, it is clear that this trailer holds something back and does not give us the whole picture. But from the look of things, it is obvious that the friendship between Craig and Austin goes terribly wrong for some reason. The footage here made me think about two different pieces of fun. One is "I love you, man," A movie, which, by accident, also featured Rudd. In that comedy, Rudd played soon in marriage, which really has no close male friends in life. In the end, while looking for the best man at his wedding, Rudd's character meets another man playing Jason Segel, and the two end up in Bromans. In many ways, "friendship" seem to be a gloomy, evil inverse of "I love you, man".

The other thing that the trailer came to mind is "Homer loves Flanders", now the classic episode of the "Simpsons" that has given us what will become famous Homer's meme in the bush ". In the episode, Simpsons Homer's patriarch is thought to hang out with his nervous religious neighbor, Ned Flanders, a man who usually despises him. In a turnaround, as Homer continues to grow Honder and Flanders Honder, Flanders quickly gets sick of Homer and his bad behavior.

However, although "friendship" reminds these famous parts of the comedy, it is clear that there is more than what fills the eye. And Wilde -Carta in the whole situation is Tim Robinson.

Like many people, I first met Robinson through "I think you should leave", A sketch comedy series, which premiered at Netflix in 2019. Without knowing much about the show, I tried it and found myself in almost hysteria from the first episode. While most people classify "I think you need to leave" like a comedy "Cringe" (And indeed, even the materials for the "Friendship" press play the idea that the film carries the crunchy humor of "I think you have to go" on the big screen), I don't know if it's entirely true. I say it simply because traditionally I don't worry about crunching humor - it makes me so uncomfortable that I end up feeling bad than having fun. And yet, that didn't happen to "I think you have to leave". The humor within the series is strange - surreal, subversive, derogated. It's weird and bizarre, but in a way that makes me so strongly tears start to form in my eyes (it's not hyperbola; when I first watched it Sketch "Carl Chaos" from Season 2In which Robinson does not bring unconvincing masking, I laughed so strongly that I really started crying).

Robinson did not start his start to "I think you should leave". He performed with the second city of Asprov and various other live comedy acts before moving to TV. After filming a comedy central pilot that was never raised, Robinson eventually landed a great performance by Saturday Night Live performers before moving from the show to write the show. In 2017 The series lasted two seasons. Finally, it was "I think you should leave" that helped put Robinson's name in collective consciousness. The series, with its infinitely quoted sketches, has collected a huge, cult-this following and completely attacked the zaithsist, as it is obvious by the fact that the sketch of Robinson dressed in a warm dog suit and said "we all try to find the guy who Do this! "It became a meme.

But all this is located within TV and streaming. Robinson There are There were film roles earlier - he expressed the ugly sound in the funny film "Chip" N Dale: Rescue Rangers, for example. But "friendship" is his first time he acts as a leading man in film. And I have to wonder: is it a wider, non-TV audience ready for it? To be clear: I think no one, not even the people in A24, expect "friendship" to be some kind of boxing office. But I am very iousubopite to see how (and if) the Robinson Humor brand - which is full of the trailer, although Robinson has not written the film itself (director Andrew Deung) - a movie game. Maybe not, but I know I'm on this movie and I don't wait to see it when it arrives in theaters somewhere in May.